title: ["And thus there was another pointless thing in the country [...]". The failed homoeopathic training of missionaries at the Basle Mission].
abstract: This article deals with the unsuccessful attempts to allow missionaries of the Basle Mission to undergo homoeopathic training. Before the Mission undertook systematic medical missionary work in society in the 1880s, there were various requests and suggestions to train the missionaries in homoeopathy. Here, these attempts are put into a greater context of the research into "Homoeopathy and Mission". It becomes clear that Hahnemann's teachings were certainly used in the Mission, even if finding this out is sometimes arduous.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart. marion.baschin@igm-bosch.de
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baschin
mesh_terms: D002835:Christianity / Q000266:history*; D015709:Correspondence as Topic / Q000266:history*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006705:Homeopathy / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D066189:Missionaries; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D008921:Religious Missions / Q000266:history*; D013557:Switzerland