HOMEOPATHY IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

The Adventure of Homeopathic Medicines

		The stages
		Automating Production

Automating Production

Extremely close attention to the production of homeopathic medicines rapidly led homeopaths to develop automatic equipment. As early as 1838, Benoît Mure built a triturator, a "succussion machine" then another "to create a vacuum". Later, Weber became interested in a potentizer. Perdrisat, an engineer in Geneva, created a diluter in consultation with Dr. Antoine Nebel of Lausanne. In Germany, Dr. Schwabe, following the same procedure, participated in the production of numerous devices. The pharmacist René Baudry, in France, also contributed to the development of several devices, most often with Perdrisat, but also with Léon Vannier. Closer to us, Jean Boiron did a great deal of work on improving the production processes as pharmaceutical techniques advanced, and today, new processes allow for perfect reliability due to the rigorousness in the production of homeopathic medicines.
The most recent result of the concern shown by homeopathic physicians: the creation of homeopathic laboratories in France starting in 1926.

A Succussion Machine…
Each dilution is followed by a lively, standardized succussion called "potentization", specific to homeopathic production and produced by means of a succussion machine or potentizer.

	Created by Benoît Mure in the 19th Century
	A Succussion Machine at the Laboratoires Homéopathiques de France (1950's)
	René Baudry's Succussion Machine (early 20th Century)
	Potentization (today)

 

		The stages
		Automating Production

Benoît Mure's Triturator :
Intended to homogenize triturations, this triturator was developed by Benoît Mure, from Lyon; he introduced and developed homeopathy in Brazil and Egypt in the 19th century.

Dr. Nebel's Machine for Korsakov Potentization : This device was produced in the early 20th century in consultation with Antoine Nebel, a homeopath in Lausanne, Switzerland. Homeopathic dilutions consist in a series of successive deconcentrations of the mother tincture, or the trituration of the insoluble mineral substance. Two methods were used in France: Hahnemannian dilution and Korsakov dilution , named after their inventors.