"Similia Similibus Curenture" elucidation.

Homoeopathy is a system of medicine devised in the rule 'Similia Similibus Curenture" elucidates 'Let likes be treated by likes'. The inventor of this new system was Samuel Hahnemann, a great allopathic doctor who lived in Germany from 1755-1843. Many might have read that he was a great author, and will have curiosity to know ,how he was led to this discovery. 

Samuel Hahnemann-1841 

• one of the dazzling discern , as it appeared to him, was treatment of malarial fevers with Cinchona bark.

• While Hahnemann was translating an Allopathic Materia medica into German, he came across a portion which dealt with the febrifuge properties of Cinchona. He thought that Cinchona was a specific for precised type of intermittent fever viz. Malaria, he was not at all able to agree with Dr.Cullen , the author, who explained that cinchona bark possessed certain febrifuge properties, as it was the most aromatic and bitter material known. 
• Hahnemann called this theory preposterous, as there are many substances known in the vegetable kingdom which are bitter or aromatic as Cinchona, but none of them has any curative action on fevers.He knew too that for exciting a kind of fever substances such as very strong coffee, Arnica, Pepper, Ignatia and Arsenic are capable, could quench some type of fevers. He became anxious therefore to discover other more actual reason s for the febrifuge action of Cinchona, his mind could not relax until he was contented.

• (EXPERIMENT)It transpired to him one night to  attempt  the effect of Cinchona bark in health.So he determined to experiment on his own person. Early in the morning he went to the market place, got some Cinchona bark, prepared a tincture with it and then supervised it to himself, 4 drams twice a day. Within a few days he developed in himself almost all the old symptoms having a marked similarity to cases of intermittent fevers, which were cured b him by the same drug, while he was practicing allopathy. The paroxysms lasted each time two or three hours only and appeared afresh whenever the dose was repeated. With the cessation of the dose, he regained his normal health.

• In 1796 after six year's experiment in this manner with several drugs on himself and his friends, his view on the remedial action of drugs had taken definite shape and he said that every powerful medicinal substance is capable of producing in a healthy human body a peculiar set of disease symptoms, and that every one of them is also capable of curing in the sick the symptoms which are similar to those that it can produce in the body in its health condition. Thus hahnemann discovered and promulgated the Law of Similars, "Similia Similibus Curentur" and named the new system  as Homoeopathy. Homoi means similar and pathos means affection.