the system of homeopathic medicine developed by Samuel Hahnemann, based on the principle that 'like cures like.'
From Samuel Hahnemann's name plus the suffix '-ism,' denoting a complete system of belief or practice; the system emerged in late 18th-century Germany as a reaction against harsh conventional medicine.
Hahnemannism became a genuinely powerful medical movement that taught doctors to observe patients carefully and treat them gently instead of bloodletting and leeches—even though the actual mechanism was wrong, the patient care improvements were revolutionary.
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