Book Review
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2003 Nov / Dec VOL V NO 6.
Reviewed by
Dr Mrs Rajni K Gwalani
Title : A concise Life Sketch of Dr Samuel Hahnemann.
Edition: First Edition: March 2003
Author: Dr P Krishnan
Price : Rs. 30/-
Pages: 56
Dr P Krishnan, an eminent tutor of Govt Homoeopathic Medical College, Calicut has written this modestly priced 56 paged handbook, titled- "A concise life sketch of Dr Samuel Hahnemann".
A handbook sketches Dr Samuel Hahnemann’s life and homoeopathic principles with description about the culture, philosophy, science and medical prevalent in the 18th century. Dr P.Krishnan has very nicely portrayed the versatile personality of Dr Hahnemann who was equally intellectual, as a translator, philosopher, multi-linguist chemist and also a writer of great social awareness.
Dr Samuel Hahnemann’s life has been portrayed through 13 chapters, subtitled as family and relatives, childhood, student life, love and experiments, Dr Hahnemann as a traveler, as a scientist, in search of treatment principles, publishing the new therapeutics, return to Leipzig, Amid crisis, days of Ecstasy and agony, inerrable return and fate versus wish.
These chapters are written in such a simple style, that one can read in one go as an interesting story book.
The last chapter of this book unfolds the ever unknown events in the life of Melanie, the second wife of Dr Hahnemann after his demise.
It is an excellent handbook, for all to read as a prelude to Haehl’s Life and Letters of Hahnemann, which is a much larger 2-vol book.
I thank Dr P Krishnan to bring out such readable books as introduction to various aspects of Homoeopathy.
