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Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz 1853 – 1932 was a German Pharmacologist from Wesel, Rhenish Prussia, and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Greifswald.

Hugo Schulz included homeopathic thoughts into his lectures, and he was known as the ‘Griefswald homeopath‘.

Hugo Schultz was very close to Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pfluger, and he was the father in law of Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch.

Hugo Schulz, and his colleague Rudolf Arndt, a psychiatrist and advocate of homeopathy, are known for research of a phenomenon known as hormesis, which shows that toxins can have the opposite effect in small doses than in large doses, the Arndt Schulz rule.

Schulz was supported in his research by August Karl Gustav Bier. Schulz was very influenced by August Karl Gustav Bier, and ‘took a lively intetest in homeopathy‘.

Schulz was fascinated by homeopathy and conducted provings along homeopathic principles (proving and taking the homeopathic remedy sulphur, and a lecture delivered on a proving of ‘homeopathic iron’, and on the sublimate of mercury at 1:500,000 dilution (homeopathic 5th or 6th dulition) and of homeopathic silica), and he became a convinced homeopath, quoting homeopathic research in his publications.

The Arndt Schulz rule was the culmination of research into homeopathy going back to Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow:

Virchow (Virch Arch 1854; 6: 133-34) was the first descriptor, three and a half decades in advance of Hugo Schulz.

Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow was extremely interested in homeopathy. He praised Samuel Hahnemann for being the first person to emirically and systematically test the effects of medicaments on healthy people, and for his concept of the minimum dose. Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow credited Samuel Hahnemann’s theory of homeopathy with stimulating new and detailed investigations in chemisty.

Schulz was a very strong proponent of homeopathy and in fact. interpreted his findings as providing the scientific foundations of homeopathy:

This provided a toxicological explanation for Schulz’s development of homeopathic ideas. As a result of the publicity following these initial studies he became the main academic hero for numerous advocates of homeopathy, and thus the theory of hormesis was born in close association with homeopathy…

Schulz studied medicine in the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, where he did scientific work in the physiological institute of Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pfluger. He earned his doctorate in 1877. In 1883 he became a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Greifswald.

Schulz is known for his research of a phenomenon known as hormesis, which shows that toxins can have the opposite effect in small doses than in large doses. He proved this in his experiments with chemical compounds on yeast cells. From his research came the Arndt Schulz rule, a law concerning dosages in toxicology; named along with Rudolf Arndt.

Schultz published several works in the field of pharmacology; his 1898 book Pharmakotherapi being the best known.