by Anja Heij
Homeopathy was founded by Samuel Hahnemann (1755 – 1843), a German physician. Hahnemann was an educated man; except for medicines he had also studied Greek, Latin, five other languages and philosophy. He was familiar with the ancient Greek healing-arts, and he considered philosophy to be the base of all science. His great example was Hippocrates, the Greek healer-philosopher who is both the Father of clinical and (Western) alternative medicine. Hahnemann was a practitioner of Mesmerism, nowadays we call this magnetizing (restoring energy flows in the body by laying on hands, and studying the magnetism of all phenomena) .