It is difficult, even now, to estimate the influence on medicine of Samuel Hahnemann, whose "glorious discontent" with the therapeutics of his day was such that he gave up everything in the endeavour to find "if God had not indeed given some certain law by which the diseases of mankind could be cured." And to this patient genius the Law of Healing in time revealed itself, and to the elucidation of that Law he thereafter devoted his long life. ...