[Ars medica Anhaltina (III): the Anhalt Hahnemann interpretation and the Köthen Homeopathic Institute].

In the years between 1821 and 1835 the domiciliation of Samuel Hahnemann in Köthen induces a consolidation of the homoeopathy in the district of the Anhalt territories. By dynastic order hereby the existing medical laws concerning the self-dispensing of the physicians are cancelled. By the establishment of an institute called Institutum homoeopathicum et magneticum the homoeopathy concentrates for a long time on Anhalt territories also after Hahnemann's retirement. The fight against homoeopathy permanently remains on the programme of the scholastic medicine, which certainly appeals to existing laws, but cannot prevent the development of a prospering business with homoeopathy. The reconstruction of these events became possible by the preserved documents.