The American Chiropractor Volume 36, Issue 6 | Page 28

HOMEOPATHY While Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Ben Franklin, and friends were signing the Declaration of Independence in this country, Samuel Hahnemann was training as a physician at the same university in Germany where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and many other great thinkers had studied. Hahnemann was also a genius and pioneer. He was the forerunner of many health principles that we, as natural health practitioners, teach today, such as hygiene, fresh air, exercise, and a sensible diet. However, Dr. Hahnemann concluded that nature held the true keys to health after being fully steeped in, and observing firsthand, the medical doc