HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN ITALY The development of Homoeopathy
in Italy was controversial and intricate in every region of the
country since the early 19th century. Based on the doctrine that
unsettled the principles of the "Old School", the Hahnemannian
thought made rapidly converts in Italy. Homoeopathy became a
court medicine and developed widely after the publication of
Hahnemann's works, coming mostly from France and edited by Leon
Simon. The first translation of the "Organon" was issued in
Italy in 1824. As rapidly as Homoeopathy expanded from 1820
onwards, so early a few principles of the Hahnemannian doctrine
(for instance the theory of the miasms, or chronic diseases)
were confuted and questioned by the homoeopaths of the first
generation. In parallel to an elitist development, Homoeopathy
became a popular medicine as well and was often of great help in
course of epidemics (especially cholera epidemics), as shown by
substantial data still available that report thousands of cases
cured homoeopathicall