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...paralyzed the chest muscles; he fed his patients tiny doses to check asthma. Arnica, which in overdoses brought on belly aches, he used in small doses to cure diarrhea. After "proving" scores of drugs, Hahnemann broadcast his famed principle of homeopathy (Greek, homoios, like, and pathos, disease): Similia similibus curentur. (Like should be cured by like.) In Hahnemann's day, doctors used remedies which were often more painful, some times more harmful, than the disease itself: drastic bloodletting for fevers, enormous doses of laudanum, heroic purges of calomel, ipecac. Hahnemann believed that minuscule doses were more powerful than heavy...
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