Question

Who is the founder of 'Homeopathy'?
1. Sir John Weir
2. John Locke
3. Thomas Hobbes
4. Samuel Hahnemann

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Samuel Hahnemann

The Correct Answer is ​Samuel Hahnemann.

• Samuel Hahnemann, in full Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, founder of the system of therapeutics known as homoeopathy.
• Sir John Weir was a Scottish doctor who served as Physician Royal to several twentieth-century monarchs.
• John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the 'Father of Liberalism'.
• Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory.

• Homoeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. 
• Homoeopathy achieved its greatest popularity in the 19th century. It was introduced to the United States in 1825 with the first homoeopathic school opening in 1835.