Kotok A
Med Ges Gesch. 1997;16:171-93.
During about 40 years of the struggle of Russian homeopaths to spread homeopathy in Russia failed. They had been convinced that all their efforts to introduce homeopathy into the state medical system similar to allopathy, through attracting physicians to homeopathy, proved unsuccessful. In the 1860s-70s, homeopaths had tried to attract laymen, and the clergymen at first, not only as supporters from "above" but also from "below". The Russian Orthodox church rendered help on all levels of its organization taking an active part in the spreading of homeopathy in the Russian Empire when the rural clergy treated peasants with homeopathic medicines and urban clergy participated in activities of the homeopathic societies. Thousands of Russian rural priests treated people with homeopathic drugs in the villages within the unsatisfactory system of Zemstvo medicine until the First World War. The difficult socio-economic situation in Russia in the studied period, as well as an insufficient number of homeopathic physicians prevented wide diffusion of homeopathy among Russian clergymen and further spreading this form of treatment in Russia.
在大约40年的时间里，俄罗斯顺势疗法从业者在俄罗斯推广顺势疗法的努力失败了。他们一直坚信，他们通过吸引医生投身顺势疗法，将顺势疗法引入类似对抗疗法的国家医疗体系的所有努力都没有成功。在19世纪60年代至70年代，顺势疗法从业者试图吸引外行人，起初是神职人员，不仅将其作为“上层”的支持者，也作为“下层”的支持者。俄罗斯东正教在其各级组织中提供帮助，积极参与顺势疗法在俄罗斯帝国的传播，当时农村神职人员用顺势疗法药物治疗农民，城市神职人员参与顺势疗法协会的活动。直到第一次世界大战，成千上万的俄罗斯农村牧师在地方自治医疗体系不完善的情况下，在村庄里用顺势疗法药物治疗人们。在研究期间，俄罗斯艰难的社会经济状况以及顺势疗法医生数量不足，阻碍了顺势疗法在俄罗斯神职人员中的广泛传播，也阻碍了这种治疗形式在俄罗斯的进一步推广。
