One really has to see the chronology to answer this question comprehensively. It’s 1796 in Germany- Samuel Hahnemann first conceptualized Homeopathy based on his now famous “like cures like” doctrine. In the late 18th and early 19th century, mainstream medicine in Europe and America consisted of things like blood letting, purging, consumption of complex mixtures containing things like snake flesh, opium, scent glands of beavers, tree gums, various spices sourced from the east, etc. George Washington died (1799) because of blood letting which was done for Quincy (Tonsillar abcess).
His death was due to treatment than the disease itself. Hahnemann rightly opposed the absurdity of it all and proposed using single ingredients in lower doses at first. During those times, Cinchona tree bark was used to successfully treat Malaria. Hahnemann came up with the “like cures like” theory after…
