Doctor Samuel Hahnemann Memorial

Doctor Samuel Hahnemann Memorial

Quick Facts

Location:

Washington, DC

Amenities

2 listed

Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Public Transit

Hahnemann (1755-1843) was a German doctor who pioneered the field of homeopathy. Based on the idea that "like cures like," homeopathy used various substances derived from poisonous plants that generated symptoms similar to diseases. The theory was that by producing the effect in the body, these substances would help cure the actual diseases themselves. The field was largely eclipsed by germ theory and is widely discredited by the scientific community today.

Sculptor: Charles Niehaus

Inscriptions

Below the statue
SIMILIA / SIMILIBUS / CURENTUR
Below left reliefs
DIE MILDE MAGHT IST GROSS
Below right reliefs
IN OMNIBUS CARITAS
granite portico right side
Erlangen
Dessau
granite portico left side
Leipzig
Coethen
Back wall below figures
CHRISTIAN FRIEDERICH
SAMUEL HAHNEMANN
DOCTOR IN MEDICINE
HOFRATH
LEADER OF THE GREAT
MEDICAL REFORMATION
OF THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY
FOUNDER OF THE
HOMOEOPATHIC SCHOOL
Fountain sides
Meissen
April 11, 1755
Paris
July 2, 1843
bottom right side edge of the portico
ISRAELS AND HARDER
ARCH'TS