Buxton & Grant
Pharmacy in Bristol, South West England
Homeopathy is built on the philosophy that like cures like - i.e. A substance that produces certain symptoms when taken in huge doses will actually treat those very symptoms when given in tiny amounts. This principle has been known since the fifth Century, but has not developed seriously until Dr Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, chemist and scholar 1st started to experiment in the late eighteenth Century. Appalled by existing medical practices of the day which often did more harm than nice, he started experimenting with various substances to learn how they affected the healthy body.