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Note publique d'information : Bettina Blessing’s study follows the progress of homoeopathic therapies up to World
War II. It focuses mainly on the development of double and complex remedies which
were highly controversial even at the times of Hahnemann, who also experimented with
double remedies. Various orientations of homoeopathy, spagyric, naturopathy and conventional
medicine advocated homoeopathic remedies and supported medical concepts that were
based on ‘holistic’ views. One of the proponents of alternative healing methods was
the renowned Berlin surgeon August Bier (1861-1949). For him, homoeopathy was one
of several possible medical approaches and, in accordance with Heraclitus, he argued
that a ‘harmonious view’ of medicine was not possible as long as one of them was excluded.