“Some modern homeopathic researchers have speculated that the original molecules of the substance, prior to dilution, actually imprint or stencil themselves permanently into the original solute, spatially rearranging the molecules in some way. After many dilutions, this original stenciling survives, even though molecules of the original substance are not present. This stenciling is as yet unproven. (…)”
(MANAKA, 1995.)
O médico alemão Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) viria a desenvolver, a partir de 1790, um novo sistema de diagnóstico e tratamento por ele denominado de Homeopatia (a partir do grego: hómoios [ὅμοιος], ou “semelhante”; e páthos [πάθος], ou “sofrimento”) em 1807.