Hahnemann pioneered the importance of hygiene.

Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, also pioneered the importance of hygiene.

Hygiene was insisted on by Dr. Hahnemann even though it was almost totally unknown in his era. Obvious procedures such as scraping a wound clean or bandaging with alcohol-soaked clothes and fresh air, exercise, and cheerful company were innovations to Hahnemann's brothers in the medical arts.