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CONSTANTINE  HERING
BORN JANUARY ist, 1800

DIED JULY 23D, 1880
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PREFACE
     AT  the  Memorial Meeting, held in  Philadelphia,
       October 10th,  1880, the undersigned  were re-
quested to edit and publish  a Biographical Sketch of
Dr Constantine  Hering, together with the Addresses
and Eulogies pronounced over him, and whatsoever de-
tails of his professional  life  and  works  as might be
deemed worthy of preservation; the whole thus consti-
tuting  an enduring Memorial of our revered friend and
master.
  In the accomplishment of their task the Editors can-^
not but confess, that, as this fine life revealed itself page
by page, they found no small satisfaction in the contem-
plation  of the benison to the world, which its history
would prove.
  The speakers and  writers whose words  are recorded in
the following pages, all bear witness to the deep impres-
sion which the grand traits  of Dr  Hering's character,
not only as a physician but as a man, produced on all 
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with whom he came in contact.  With 'charity for all
and malice towards none,' the whole of his  long, labori-
ous, and blameless  life was  spent in laying broad and
deep the enduring principles of Homoeopathy.
  For the assistance rendered by the Rev. William H.
Furness, D.D., in preparing the Biographical Sketch,
the editors are deeply indebted; and are grateful likewise
for the services rendered by others in translating foreign
papers.
                              Charles G. Raue,
                              Calvin  B. Knerr,
                              Charles Mohr. 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH.
    THE ancestors of Dr. Hering came from Mora-
      via.  They wrote the family name Hrinka.
His father, a gentle natured man, educated first
at the Fiirstenschule  in  Meissen, the same  in
which Hahnemann received his  early education,
and then at the Universities of Leipzig and \Yiir-
temberg,  was devoted  to  teaching and to  music.
He published numerous  works of instruction in
the art of music,  some of which passed  through
several editions, among them a collection of juve-
nile songs;  some of these are still sung by children
the world over.   His method, resembling the Kin-
dergarten mode of education, commended itself by
its simplicity and practical character.  In his hum-
ble home he strove to surround his little ones with
refining  influences.    Books  with poor  pictures
were not tolerated in the nursery.   He maintained
that early impressions  were powerful in influenc-
ing later  life,  and  zealously strove to banish from
his home all  that was  not good, beautiful or true.
                      (9) 
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Before marriage he lived in Leipzig, which city he
left to occupy the position  of  instructor in the
family of Krug von Xiclcla.  In 1705, he was given
the position of conrector and organist of the church
in Oschatz with the  title  of Magister, equivalent
to Doctor of Philosophy.  Sixteen years  later he
moved to Zittau, a beautifully situated town in the
Oberlausitz, where he  became principal of the pub-
lic school and later professor of music in the semi-
nary.   In  1886, he was partly emerited, wholly so
eight  years later, and the remainder  of  his  life,
which ended  January 4th, 1S53, was devoted to
his favorite art,  music.  His family  consisted of
three  daughters and four sons.  One of the sons,
Carl Ecluard, was pronounced by Mendelssohn the
strongest musician on counterpoint in Europe.
  Dr. Hering was born on the first day of January,
A.D. 1800,  consequently he could claim to be one
of the first men of the  century.  His father was
seated at the organ when word was brought to him
of the birth  of a son, whereupon pealed  forth a
burst  of praise: Nun danket alle Gott. The trumpet
angels, attached to the organ, sent forth their hal-
lelujahs, heralding the advent of  a new century
and the birth of a son.  The  child was carried the
next day into the open air, his father believing in 
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the hardening process.  A clay or two afterwards
he was baptized and named  Constantine.   In giv-
ing him this name  which  had been borne by  a
child that had  died,  the father showed  himself
above a popular superstition.
  Oschatz, the birth-place of Dr. Hering, is a small
town situated between Dresden and Leipzig.  As
the diligence passed through it, it happened occa-
sionally that some traveller of note stopped  over
night and spent the evening with Magister Hering,
widely  known for  his position in the  musical
world.  Dr. Hering preserved the memory of these
guests.  They did much, doubtless, to determine
his way of thinking.  He remembered sitting on
the knee of Chladni and listening to the wonder-
ful  account of the  Klangfiguren (sound figures).
Seume,  a literary man of  that  day, was  one  of
those evening visitors, whose talk about  America
and  democracy inspired  the listening  child with
the love of freedom  and  the hatred of privileged
classes.
  The early teachers of Dr. Hering were persons
of a like character to his father. One in particular,
August  Rudolph, an excellent mathematician, he
always spoke of with veneration.  Lehrer Rudolph
taught him to love  mathematics as a science, not 
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 merely of dry formulas, but as a revelation of the
 laws of being.  The boy had no liking for history,
 ua collection of foolish and horrible things," as he
 called it to  his father,  who told him he should
 write it after a better fashion.  But he preferred
 to study plants, insects, stones.   He incurred a re-
 proof from his beloved teacher, Herr Rudolph, by
 refusing to  call Peter of Russia,  Peter  the  Great,
 preferring to  say,  in the course of a  composition
 condemnatory of the Russian ruler, "Peter, whom
fools call great."
   It was in the boyhood of Dr. Hering that the
 Old World was all in a tremble under the bloody
 footsteps of the First Napoleon.   Dr.  Hering had
 vivid recollections of the time before and after the
 battle of Jena, and of the march to Russia and the
 disastrous retreat.  A portion of the French  army
 on its way  to Russia passed through Saxony, a
 small company halted before the house of Magister
 Hering and demanded food; (Jonstantine, a lad of
 twelve,  ran  out with a fresh loaf of black bread
 (rye  bread), which an officer took only to  fling it
 on the  ground where it was kicked about by the
 soldiers.  "It's good bread," cried  the boy,  "my
 mother made it; don't you know God will  punish
 you  for throwing  bread away?"  The  men said 
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nothing and passed on.  By and by rumors came
of the great catastrophe, the fatal  retreat.  As it
chanced the same  squad came to  the Magister's
begging food.  Again the  same boy  came out to
help  the poor  wretches, taking white  bread to
them this  time; the  same  officer, wasted, in  rags,
with  his arm in a  sling met the boy.  "Ah! my
boy," he exclaimed, "the curse you told  us of has
fallen upon us."
  The first stimulus to a love of the natural sciences
the boy received when he found on  his father's
grapevine  the  caterpillar named Sphynx atropos.
This Atropos, followed in later }Tears by the Lach-
esis, called  to his mind the three weird sisters who
were  supposed to determine the course of human
life.   He often said:  "The destinies  have  come
to me in reverse order."  First came  Atropos, the
inflexible, who cuts the thread of human  life, next
Lachesis who spins it, and  finally Clotho holding
the distaff.  He likened his work of writing  the
Materia Medica to  the spinning of threads  for a
fabric, and when  the web was  well begun, he
said:  "When I shall be called hence the work will
be left  on  the loom  for other hands to weave."
When the  boy's mind had received  the impulse
to study Nature's works he  became enthusiastic in 
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pursuit  of  knowledge.  The collection of insects,
stones, and plants busied him in all the hours that
could be spared from school.  He made long ex-
cursions to the neighboring hills  and valleys and
returned laden with  minerals for his cabinet, or
plants for his herbarium.  He was wont to stop at
inns to arrange his collections, and it was in  those
places that he  picked up  the popular  forms of
speech which he was so fond of using.  Nothing-
was  more  distasteful to him than  empty, high-
sounding phrases; both in  conversation and in
writing  he clung to the Anglo-Saxon.
  Among the books in his library is a small  work
on botany numbering eighty-eight pages and  bear-
ing the title, " Systematisch.es Verzeichniss der in der
Oberlausitz wildwachsenden Pflanzen von M.  Karl
Christian Oettel,  171)0."  On the  fly-leaf, in the
boy's handwriting,  in  which  is  recognizable  a
strong similarity with the  man's,  are written the
words: "My  first book on botany."  The  inter-
linear marks, the underscorings and marginal  notes
on the  well-worn  pages of this little book  show
how diligently Constantine used it.
  Although at  this early age he  was eager in the
pursuit  of scientific knowledge, he was alive to the
importance of acquiring a skillful use of his hands. 
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Surgery seems to have been in his mind.  This is
shown by an anecdote he was fond of relating de-
scriptive of his first  operation.  A younger sister,
who occasionally accompanied him on his rambles
through  the woods, was so unfortunate as to have
one  of those troublesome  ticks which infest the
woods become fastened upon  her.   No other help
being  at hand,  and the little girl declaring she
would not see a doctor, Constantine had  to per-
form the operation of extracting the tick  from
his sister's back; this the young surgeon, who was
averse to shedding blood when it could be avoided,
accomplished b}T gently but  firmly grasping the
insect's' body and pulling with steady but almost
imperceptible  force.  At  first the  insect, feeling
opposition, began to tighten its hold, but it could
not  long resist  the  very gradual  but unrelenting
force which was  brought to bear upon it and com-
pelled it to  release its victim.  The boy had made
an  observation which was  of use in  after life,  for
he often  successfully employed the "gradual force
method" in practice, and sometimes  when harsher
means had been  tried in vain.
  In 1817, young Constantine was sent to an acad-
emy in Dresden  where he studied surgery.  A year
later a copy of Euclid literally fell into his hands 
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at an old book stall; the volume deeply interested
him at once.   He  resolved to  go home and  give
himself to Greek and Mathematics, which he did
until  1820, when  he  went  to  Leipzig where he
studied seven courses in medicine.
  He next went to Wiirzburg, attracted to the seat
of learning in this place by the  fame of Schonlein,
the pathologist, with whom he formed  a friendship
which  his conversion  to  the doctrines of Hahne-
mann  never  disturbed.   He   was  graduated  at
Wiirzburg with the highest honors.   His medical
examination was very severe—all the  more  so for
his well-known devotion to Homoeopathy.
  For  nine years, from 1817 to  1826, Dr. Hering's
life was the life of a student.   By his fellow-stu-
dents  he was nick-named " Wis&nt" on account  of
his energetic application to study.  He struggled
long with poATerty.  His privations  were  many.
He first became interested in Homoeopathy  by en-
gaging to write against  it.  His  work was to be
published by Baumgaertner.   In it  he first en-
deavored to define what  is similar in the Homoeo-
pathic sense.   Then  he examined  the Materia
Medica of Hahnemann.   "Beginning  with the
chapter headed  Sensorium,  I  found,"  he  said,
"under every remedy Hchwindel.   I began to think 
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it was  all  Schwindel!"   When  the book  was
nearly done  he came  across Hahnemann's chal-
lenge: "Disprove, ere  you  condemn!"  He con-
tinued his investigations.  Some mysterious agency
seemed to him  to  lead him on  to the belief
that Hahnemann had found the truth.  The book
was never  published.   An  old friend, an apoth-
ecary, was  delighted to hear that he  was  writing
against the new school, but when he went to  this
friend one day for a  tincture  of Peruvian bark,
wanting it, as he told the apothecary, for a homoe-
opathic proving, the man of the shop exclaimed:
"My young friend, don't you know there is danger
in that?"   The young  doctor replied  that he was
a student of mathematics and  believed he could
distinguish the true from  the false.  From that
moment his  old friend and  other friends turned
their  backs on  him.   It was said  by  the more
charitable that  he was going crazy.  In truth he
became, as he said, a fanatic in the cause of homoe-
opathy and preached it in season and out of season
like a very apostle.
  A remarkable personal experience had a decisive
effect  in his conversion to the new theory of thera-
peutics.  In making an autopsy on  the body of a
suicide exhumed by the authorities,  he was so un-
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fortunate as to take into his system, through an
abrasure on one of his fingers, some of the poison
engendered in  the  decomposition  of  the dead.
After some days the wound  became gangrenous.
Leeches, calomel and  caustics were of no avail.
Amputation as a  last  resort was  rejected, as the
loss of his hand would be fatal  to his profession,
and he would rather die than suffer it.  He was at
the time still under the old impression  that it was
absurd to suppose external  diseases to be  within
reach of internal remedies, and  he met with ridi-
cule the proposition of an older disciple of Hahne-
mann  to treat  him  with homoeopathic  pellets.
Nevertheless, to please  his friend, but with no idea
of receiving any benefit, he consented to take min-
ute doses of Arsenic.   With the sense of relief that
came to him as the wound began to heal, the light
of the new art of healing broke upon him, he said,
in all its fulness.  "I owed to it far more than the
preservation of a finger.  To Hahnemann who had
saved my finger, I gave my whole hand, and to
the promulgation of his  teachings, not only  my
hand, but the entire man, body and soul."
  From  studying  homoeopathy  there  was but a
step to the practice of  it.  His success was cheer-
ing.  He no longer suffered want. 
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  He next  became a teacher of natural sciences
and  mathematics in the Blochmann  Institute in
Dresden.   Upon the recommendation of Bloch-
man he  was sent by the King of Saxony  on a
botanical  and zoological  expedition to  Surinam
and  Cayenne.  He  made  the expedition in  com-
pany with his friend Weigel who  was to attend
to the  botanical  work while he  was  to  have
charge  of the  zoological department.   He  re-
mained six  }Tears in Surinam.  His zoological re-
searches were  extended over the full period of  his
stay, but only a portion  of this time in the interest
of the king.  His love for homoeopathy had by no
means lessened in the pursuit and study of Nature's
tropical wonders. The Moravian colony in which
he resided offered every inducement for the  prac-
tice of the new healing  art.   Although the scien-
tific work had not suffered thereby, for he had sent
many new and  interesting specimens to the mu-
seum, and had  assisted his  friend Weigel in the
preparation of a herbarium containing three  thou-
sand  specimens of  plants,  letters  to the  king,
written by enemies  to homoeopathy, reported him
negligent in  his trust,  and  sharp orders came to
abandon homoeopathy and attend to his specified
duties! The unjust censure of the government  made 
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him decide to throw up his commission, which  he
did by return of mail.  He now  by no means  re-
linquished his study of natural history, for he made
many more  curious and valuable discoveries, col-
lected plants, reptiles  and animals, sent numerous
interesting contributions to the Academy  of  the
Natural Sciences in Philadelphia,  and  practiced
homoeopathy at his  own  sweet  will.  He  made
many converts to the cause and educated a student,
Dr. Bute, whom he  sent North at the time of the
outbreak of cholera in 1832, to try his skill against
the epidemic.   While  his student was successfully
battling with the cholera in Philadelphia, he went
among the lepers who were colonized in the vicin-
ity of Surinam, outcasts  from society, and  al-
though unable  to cure more  than a few he  did
much to relieve the sufferings of many, and by his
observations  enriched the therapeutics of  that
dread disease, leprosy.   He sent numerous medical
articles to his  friend Stapf in Germany who pub-
lished them in  his  journal, "The Archives."  He
studied  the habits and  customs  of the Creoles,
mulattoes, negroes and Arrowackian Indians.  It
was at the risk of his life that he penetrated into
the forests to become acquainted with this wild
tribe, and we owe to his affiliation with the sons of 
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the tropical forest  the  discovery  of the  healing
virtues that lay hidden in the poison  bag of the
Surukuku  snake.   Besides the serpent-virus he
tested  upon his own person  a large  number  of
hitherto  unproven  drugs,  thereby enriching the
Materia  Medica.  He married, but lost  his  wife
soon after  the birth of a son.  This bereavement"
and the  hope  of finding a wider field  for homoe-
opathy, induced him to direct his steps to the
North.
  After a residence of more than six years in Sur-
inam, his love of personal liberty, of  freedom  of
speech and of thought,  had so strengthened, that
he was drawn, naturally, toward the United States,
the country in which the  freedom he loved was
most ample.
  His fellow-countrymen of the Moravian colony
in Surinam were loath  to  have him leave them,
and, as their custom was, invoked the Bible test
in the matter.   The book  opened and the finger
pointed to  the text: "Well done,  thou good and
faithful servant;  *  *   *   enter thou into the joy
of thy Lord."   So,  heavy of heart, yet seeing in
his going, as they believed,  the will of Providence,
they sped his parting and gave him many things
useful for  the voyage.  But whatever the omen 
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given by  the  test might  have been, Dr. Hering
would not have suffered his  purpose to have been
changed by it.  His strong  nature resented  any
interference with his free will, least  of all by an
appeal to chance.  He believed  that  each man
must learn to judge and to decide for himself, and
he lived up to this belief his  life long.
  The ship in which he sailed from Surinam was
old, badly handled and ill-found.  She  was bound
for Salem, in Massachusetts, but after  going ashore
upon the Rhode Island  coast, she finally  put into
Martha's Vineyard.  Here, on a beautiful Sunday
morning, in January,  1833,  he  landed.  On the
ground lay the white snow,  the first  that he  had
seen for seven years, and  the  sight of it rejoiced
his  heart.  " I took it up," he  said,  " and  was
happy."  In a little while he came  to Philadel-
phia, the city  in which  for nearly half a century
his home was destined to be.
  Dr. Hering was one  of  the  pioneers of homoe-
opathy in America.  Eight years earlier Dr. Gram,
the  herald  of the new  school  in  the  United
States, had  established himself  in  New  York,
and when Dr.  Hering came to Philadelphia there
were a dozen, perhaps  a  score,  of homoeopathic
physicians  scattered  over  the   whole  country. 
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He had  to fight prejudice as well as disease, but
his skill and  his strength in the faith were great
and he  prevailed.   His  practice  increased  so
largely and so rapidly that within a year after his
arrival he engaged an assistant, and in this first
year of his residence in America he  took to him-
self a German wife, Marianne Hussman, daughter
of George Hussman, of Philadelphia.  Indeed, at
last fortune seemed to show him heartily her favor.
  A little  less than a  year after his arrival in
Philadelphia,  Dr. Hering was waited upon  by a
committee  from  the " Homoeopathic Society of
Northampton  and Counties Adjacent," consisting
of Drs. W. Wesselhoeft, H. Detwiller and J. Romig
who were appointed to  confer with him on the
establishment  of a homoeopathic school of instruc-
tion,  and on   January  1st,  1834,  Dr. Hering's
thirty-fourth birthday anniversary,  was proposed
and adopted a plan, the result of which was the
institution  of  the "North American Academy of
the Homoeopathic Healing Art," to be located at
Allentown,  Pennsylvania,  with Dr. Hering  as
President and  principal instructor.
  This institution, the first of its kind in the world,
was  founded  April  10th,  1835—Hahnemann's
birthday—and in the following month Dr.  Her- 
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ing's connection with it began.   The academy was
started with  much enthusiasm and with a fair
prospect of success.  A stock company was formed
for  the purpose of raising  a fund to purchase  a
lot  and building  and to support  the institution.
About one hundred  subscribers from Allentown,
Bethlehem, Philadelphia and New  York and in
various parts of the  country, raised a fund suffi-
cient  to buy  a tract of land comprising a square
block of ground in the  centre of Allentown.  A
large  proportion  of  this  fund  was  raised in
Philadelphia, and we  must not  here omit to
make mention  of the  hearty  cooperation of  a
valued friend of Dr.  Hering, Mr. William  Geisse,
the introducer of homoeopathy in Philadelphia;
also of Dr. Geo. H. Bute who brought all the in-
fluence of his extensive practice to  bear in favor
of the new  institution.  Seven thousand  dollars
were subscribed by its promoters in a single day—
such  was their  eagerness  that the new  school
should be founded.
  On May 27th, 1835,  the corner-stone for  the
two wings of the main building was laid  in the
presence of a large concourse of people and friends
of the undertaking.   At the same time Dr. Hering
delivered in the court-house the inaugural address, 
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in the German language, entitled, " A few words
concerning the necessity and usefulness of homoe-
opathy ;" his text, so to speak, being the words of
George Washington: " There  is but  one right way:
to seek the  truth and steadily to pursue it."  The
funds that were believed to  be quite sufficient to
provide for the maintenance  of the Academy until
such time as it should become self-supporting had
been raised, but, unfortunately, this well-intended
scheme miscarried; not, however,  from intrinsic
weakness, nor yet from any fault of those  who
had its management in charge.  In the troublous
period that ended  in the financial crash of 1837,
the banker with whom the endowment fund was
deposited made a bad failure, and the money upon
which the academy depended for its immediate
support was  lost.   So  the  buildings which had
been  erected, and used but so short a time, were
sold;  and for the time being the collegiate teach-
ing of homoeopathy in America came to an end.
   Dr. Hering had not labored in  vain.  During
his connection with the institution his  efforts to
disseminate the germs of homoeopathy were inde-
fatigable.   He  taught  the principles of  Hahne-
mann, practiced them on the sick, wrote books
and pamphlets, caused the German text books to 
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be translated so as to bring their contents within
the reach of all, and  thus "became the corner-
stone around and upon which  his associates and
colaborers clustered and leaned for support."   He
made many warm friends  both among the laity
and his professional brethren.   At the instigation
of his friend Wesselhoeft and  with  his  help he
labored extensively with the clergy who sought
instruction and  practised the new art con amore
upon their parishioners who lived far away from
the new doctors.  With one of these clergymen,
the Rev. John Helfrich, Dr. Hering formed a deep
and lasting friendship, and before the close of his
life he had the  satisfaction of seeing no less than
seven of this man's descendants, sons, grandsons
and nephews, join the ranks of homoeopathy.
  While somewhat disheartened by this financial
failure, Dr. Hering was far from being cast down.
The active practice of  his profession in Philadel-
phia remained to him, and in his work he found a
substantial profit as  well as a  constant pleasure.
A far more serious sorrow fell upon him in  1840,
in the death of his second wrife; a  sorrow  that
softened only with time.
  His fame as a  leader in the new school of medi-
cine by this  time was established in Europe as 
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well as in America.  Several years after the col-
lapse  of the Allentown Academy he received an
invitation from Hahnemann's widow to come to
Paris  and succeed to her late husband's practice;
and later he was invited to establish himself in
London.   Honorable and tempting as these in-
vitations were, he refused them both.  After sev-
eral years he felt, however, the need of change,
of  recreation after the  sorrowful  experiences
through which he had passed;  and  his longing
was great to see  his Fatherland once more.  So,
giving to his brother-in-law,  Dr.  Hussman, the
charge  of his Philadelphia  practice, he went
over to Germany to visit his  father  in the old
home. Here he  remained until May,  1846, and
here  he  married again.  His third  wife was
Fraulein  Therese Buchheim,  daughter   of  Dr.
Christian Friedrich Buchheim of Bautzen, Saxony,
who remained the faithful partner of his life to
its close.   His visit to Germany was shortened by
the news  that came to him of the death of Dr.
Hussman.  On receiving this news he decided at
once to return to America;  and  he came back
with the full determination to make Philadelphia
his permanent home.  In the year 1852, he bought 
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the house in  Twelfth street, where he thencefor-
ward lived and where he died.
  From  the time of  his return  to  Philadelphia
until close upon the time of his death he led the
active, trying life of a  city physician  in large
practice;  a  life  of  much toil,  of much  responsi-
bility, of  little rest.   And yet in the  midst of this
arduous practice of his  profession he made time
for other  good work.  The seeking out and prov-
ing of new remedies, which for years past had re-
ceived much  attention  from him, was zealously
continued;  and  true  to  his belief that he  who
finds  must  give, he  was  diligent in placing  in
print, and so within the reach of his professional
associates, the results  of his investigations.  His
highly important discoveries, both in therapeutics
and  in Materia  Medica*, recorded in  his volu-
minous writings, remain a lasting testimony  to
his constant  labors,  and  the fit memorial  of
his useful life.  Much of what he discovered was
immediately imparted orally  to  his  class of stu-
dents in the Hahnemann College. In this insti-
tution, which  he helped to establish, he occupied
the Chair of Institutes and Materia Medica, and
 * For a detailed account of his works and writings see Part II, prepared
by Dr. C. B. Knerr. 
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latterly the position of Dean until 18G9, when, in
order that he might  gain time to finish the im-
portant literary work that he  had in hand, his
resignation was tendered and regretfully accepted.
  During his later years, as age and his literary
labors pressed upon him, as a further relief from
the  cares of his  profession he  admitted to the
honor of partnership  with him his pupil and son-
in-law, Dr. Calvin B. Knerr.  But until the very
last  he continued to  treat a large number of pa-
tients in their homes as wrell as at the office, and
was  considered indispensable by his brother physi-
cians of Philadelphia in all important consultation
cases, and was consulted  by mail or telegraph in
critical cases by homoeopathic  physicians living
in the  United States as  well as  abroad.  Indeed,
he  loved his profession so heartily that while
strength remained to him he would not  upon
any  consideration relinquish its active duties.
  On  March 23d,  1876,  he celebrated, or  rather
his friends celebrated, the fiftieth  anniversary of
his graduation in medicine.  An engrossed parch-
ment, handsomely framed, was presented  to him
by  his professional associates.   This parchment
bore the following inscription : 
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           To Our Revered and Beloved Colleague,
                      Constantine Hering,
Who, having received the Degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Univer-
sity of Wiirzburg, March 23d, 1826, to-day, by the favor of Heaven, wit-
nesses tlie Fiftieth  Anniversary of that occasion, we, the Homoeopathic
Physicians of Philadelphia, in Mass Meeting assembled, offer our affection-
ate congratulations and good wishes.
  To his exceptional intellectual ability, untiring industry, broad •culture
and liberal spirit, Homoeopathy pre-eminently owes her firm establishment
and vigorous growth in America.   The year of his Jubilee finds him still
occupied, in the same spirit, in labors for the same end.
  Passing in review the forty-three years of his fellow-citizenship with us,
we regard with grateful admiration his labors in the broad field of science,
his unselfish devotion  to the advancement of the Art of Healing, his gen-
erous demeanor towards his fellow-workers, and the pure record of his spot-
less life.
  May a kind  Providence long spare him to a profession which he honors,
and to colleagues in whose heart he is cherished.
    Attest:                              Jacob Jeanes, M.D.,
A. E. Thomas, M.D., President.            A. W. Koch, M.D.,
Robert J. McClatchey, M.D., Secretary.   C. Neidhard, M.D,
                                       H. N. Guernsey, M.D,
                                       C. G. Raue, M.D,
                                       Richard Gardiner, M.D.,
                                              Committee of Signers.

   On  the same  occasion the following  addresses
were made  by  his friends  Drs.  P. P. Wells, H. N.
Guernsey  and Carroll Dunham.
   Dr.  P. P.  Wells spoke  as follows:

  Gentlemen:—On the  first day of January, in the  year of our Lord 1800,
in the town of  Oschatz, in Saxony,  there was a remarkable event.  It was 
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the birth of a baby.  Do you say there was nothing uncommon in that ?   I
reply, this was no common baby.  It was a very remarkable baby, and this
was soon manifest.  For immediately on his finding himself thrust into a
world where he was compelled to do his own  breathing, he at once began,
with ceaseless activity, endeavoring to find out all  about it.   In this he
was probably the most active  baby that  ever was born.   He was never
quiet, but ever restless, day and night, sleeping but little, for the most part
wide awake  and  busy, finding it  out.   Do you  ask how I know this?   I
have it by infallible  inference from the fact that they named this baby
Constantine Hering. So the baby lived and grew, sturdy and  strong,
ever thus employed, till babyhood became boyhood, and even this, strange
as it may seem, brought no change as to this singular idiosyncrasy, he was
ever and  incessantly  trying to find it out.  This  boy  expanded into the
youth, and he was the same, still finding it out.   The youth had just merged
into early manhood,  when in March,  1826, and on the 23d day  of that
month, the University of Wurzburg presented him to the world as a Doctor
of Medicine, and by this time  he  had found out a good  deal. In the May
following  he received the  honorable appointment of Teacher of Mathe-
matics and the Natural Sciences  in Blochmann's Institute, in the  City of
Dresden.  In connection with this Institute, and in the interests of Natural
Science, the king of Saxony sent him to the Southern part of this continent,
in November of the same year.  In this new situation the habits of early
life were equally conspicuous.   Enquiry and experiment were his constant
employment.   In these he never grew weary, and  from these  he never
ceased till he had  accomplished  the objects of his mission; work ever
seemed his only rest.   In these labors nothing by its minuteness escaped
his observation; nothing by greatness  his mastering; nothing by its evan-
escence eluded his  grasp.  The molecule, the  planet,  and the lightning
even were eacli and equally compelled to stand and yield up their  secrets
to the mastering mind of this young man.  He continued in these employ-
ments in Surinam, S.  A., about seven  years.  There was but one thing in
all  the difficulties attending his pursuits which he never could find out.
That was the practical meaning of the word impossible.  I strongly suspect
he never believed there was such a word. 
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  But on the present occasion it is not so much the man of science as the
physician with which we have to do.   We have said he was made a doctor
in 1826. The remarkable thing about  this is, they made an old school
doctor of him, and he survived it.  Survived it, retaining his earliest, early
and later thirst  for knowledge, with increasing diligence in  its pursuit.
This is certainly very remarkable, in view of the known fact that a young
doctor no sooner lays his hand on the precious parchment, than he is seized
with the absorbing conceit that now he knows all about it.  This is especially
apparent in the  case of old-school young doctors.  Under the  influence of
this  delusion they almost  uniformly drift away together into a total dark-
ness as  to all laws which can throw light on the science of therapeutics or
direct its practice.  The escape of our young friend from this common fate
can only be explained when we  know the fact  that previous to the recep-
tion of  this doctorate,  he had  become  a convert to the truths of homoe-
opathy.  This saved him. Anchored to these he  went out to bless the
world by teaching them to others, and in the exercise of his pristine rest-
less activity, to advance from these to a knowledge of new facts and princi-
ples in  harmony with  them, till he had gathered from his survey of the
broad field of nature before him, such stores of knowledge of phenomena
of disease, the effects of external agents on the living organism, the rela-
tions of these latter to the former, which constitute them their  curatives,
that he soon stood before the profession  an  acknowledged master, the peer
of the noblest of them all.
   Having  accomplished the  objects of his  mission to Surinam, he started
for his  native country, in his progress to which he landed in Philadelphia,
in January, 1833, with the  purpose of soon resuming his journey, and in
Dresden again to return to his official duties in the Institute, to the official
staff of which he was still attached.  But this he was never  more to do.
Providence blessed us by permitting him, who had mastered the planets
and the lightning, to be himself conquered by the conqueror of us all, sooner
or later.   I need not say that victor was  a lovely woman.  She cast her
spell over him and he was bound by it  and could go no further.  She be-
came his,  and through her power over him he became hers and ours from
thenceforth. 
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  These were the circumstances and this the manner of the advent among
us, now more than forty-three years ago, of the man from whom has gone
out, more than from any and all others, light and teaching which have
made homoeopathy what it is in the land to-day, a recognized power of
beneficence, which, whoever will, may hate, but only the recklessly daring
will  longer make the object of a sneer, as all did at the beginning of his
career among us, even the most pusillanimous and contemptible.
  It may be well to look a moment at the state of things in the country at
that time, as to all belonging to his favorite doctrines and practice   There
were  no text-books in the language of the country, from  which,  if any
were desirous of doing so, they could learn its principles.  There were no
manuals of Materia Medica or repertories to aid any who  might wish  to
make practical application  of  the  law of cure  which homoeopathy had
proclaimed.  There was  almost no  literature from  which a knowledge  of
that system of curing, so generally believed to be absurd and as generally
ridiculed,  could be obtained.  There were no schools where  the  homoe-
opathic system of medicine was taught.  There was here and there one
scattered over the Eastern part of the country  (with one exception, not two
in any one place), but few altogether, who were endeavoring to practice, in
part or  in whole, with  the light which was in them, according to the law
of healing which Hahnemann had promulgated.  These, taken  as a whole,
were not sufficient to modify in a great degree  the total darkness which
prevailed,  as to all  knowledge of  natural law or  principles  controlling
therapeutics of the time.   Now how different is  all  this.  We have text-
books, manuals, repertories, literature and schools. Instead of the few
scattered struggling ones who then scarcely gave light enough to make the
prevailing  darkness apparent, now there are thousands of intelligent prac-
titioners of the school, furnished with all needed helps to facilitate their
labors and  aid their success.  Such  is the contrast between 1833 and 1876-
  Now, as  we have said, from Constantine Hering  more than from any
other man  or men, have  gone out the forces which  directly or indirectly
have wrought this great change.  He taught publicly and privately,  and he
has taught incessantly, because he could not  help it.  Publicly in  Allen-
town and Philadelphia.  Privately wherever  he has been,  in  season and
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out of season, always teaching.  Whatever may have been the value of his
public instructions, and we esteem them at the highest, we have no doubt
those which were more and most private, have  contributed more to the
spread and triumphs of homoeopathy, and the increase of the number of its
practitioners.  The abundance of these, and their influence on the minds
and  practice of men, none but the Omniscient can ever know.   No one
who has been blest with their benefits will ever forget them.  Rich,  free,
full, generous, abundant, asking no reward but a listening ear and an ab-
sorbing mind, he was never weary of instructing  the ignorant, strengthen-
ing the weak, encouraging the doubting and  fearing, and leading any  who
needed guidance into clearer light and a self-sustaining confidence.
  Early in the history of this period of change, even in distant New Eng-
land, whose inhabitants have a  traditional reputation for a disposition to
find things out, there was here and there one who had heard that there was
a system of cure called homoeopathy; that it gave increased power  to cure,
as compared with the ancient school of practice founded on mere hypothe-
sis, and that there was a man in Philadelphia who knew something about
it.  These went there and to him, were taught, and returned with light,
which they were, more than  for any other thing, anxious to make known
to their neighbors.   These neighbors came, and they were in turn followed
by others, till the number was great  who came to this centre of  light, as to
the Mecca of the new faith, and Constantine Hering became their prophet.
It was in this way that homoeopathy spread so rapidly in those days, and
this place and man became the centre of the great light.  I myself was one
of those pilgrims in 1842. I know no way in which I can show so satis-
factorily the spirit and manner of this private teaching, the noble, generous
heart of the teacher, his unparalleled unselfishness and his unwearied pa-
tience, as by relating my first introduction  to him by letter, at his residence
in Philadelphia, and what  followed.   After reading the letter he said,
"how long  do you  remain in town?"   When told, he said "come to me
to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, and I will see no one else."   At this time
his consultation room was thronged by such numbers as have rarely been
found in any other.   Of course I did not fail to keep the appointment.
He took me to a private room, turned the  key in the lock, heeded no  taps 
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at the door, and from this time till far into the small hours of the night he
was telling me just what I needed to know,  without the least cessation.
This was only interrupted by my inability to endure longer absorption,
being an invalid, and not in the least by his tiring of pouring from his
overflowing  fulness into my empty vessel.  Apparently he was quite will-
ing to go on to I don't know what limit.  When told I must leave and the
cause, he at  once said " come to me to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, and I
will see no one else."  The second call was a repetition of the first, in the
matters of instruction given and  received, duration into  the small hours,
and like the other was brought to an end only by my inability to  endure
longer.   He not  only told me just what I needed to know, but what has
been of practical use  to me from that day to this.  And this was  all with
such an air of evident satisfaction and enjoyment on his  part, that I have
no  recollection of thanking him for his kindness. He dismissed me with
so much of the manner of one who had just been blessed himself, rather
than of one who had been imparting  his wealth to another, that the picture
as it is now  in my memory, is a living, pleasing illustration of the truth, it
is more  blessed to  give than to  receive.  I don't believe I thanked you
then, sir, for your abundant goodness.  I do not remember  that I did, but
I do it  now  from the very centre of a warm,  grateful heart. Be assured,
sir, I have never ceased to hold  in memory a sense of your great goodness,
or of the greatness of the benefit you then conferred on me.
   Gentlemen, I have no reason for supposing this to be an exceptional case
at all.   There was no cause for partiality  on his part  for me.  He had
never heard my  name or seen it, till  he read the note I handed him.  I
had no  claim on  him for the  least favor.  There was nothing in me per-
sonally to call out  such unexampled beneficence.  The whole was a  spon-
taneous overflow  of his generous nature, such as always  blessed the needy
who called on him.  And it has been by a continuance of such acts that he
has made the impress of his mind so broad and deep on  the homoeopathic
profession in this country.   First, directly on those who  came into imme-
diate contact with him;  and second, and indirectly, on those who were in-
fluenced in  turn by the truths and principles these  visitors carried  away
with them.   The extent of this has been so  great that it  is safe to affirm it 
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surpasses that made by any other or all others of his cotemporaries.   So
quietly and unostentatiously has this process of private teaching been going
on, that it may be there are few who are aware that we are indebted to this
man more than to any others, for what homoeopathy is in this land to-day.
  And then, further, he has taught us by contributions to the literature of
our school, to an extent surpassing those of any man.  The importance of
these contributions is equal to their extent. The writings of no other man
are so  compact with thought, so abounding with facts contributed to  our
knowledge, with suggestions of relationships of these to other facts and to
each other, so luminous with the effulgence  of genius, so astonishing  by
the great labors they disclose.  The wealth of thought and suggestion in
these is so great, that in view  of it one of  the ablest masters of our school,
Haynel, said to me—"Other  men are constantly catching up the sparks
which  Hering is constantly throwing off, and expanding them into great
fires, and passing them off as their own."  And this is true.  Take from
the literature of homoeopathy the contributions of Hering, and you have
robbed it of half its wealth.
  And now, gentlemen, I thank you for honoring me with  the pleasant
duty of tendering our united homage to our loved master and friend.
While doing this I am assured that in view of his life long labors and their
results, of his never failing loyalty to truth, his unwearied and incessant
endeavors for its advancement and defence, of his ever generous, abundant
and free instructions to those  who were in need,  and above all, of his spot-
less example as physician, citizen and friend,  you will join me as with one
heart, while I say to him—Well  done, good and  faithful servant.
  And to you gentlemen, I would say,  when  you  regard whatever  in his
character, life-work  and devotion to  truth, that which is most worthy,  re-
member the homage which his great and good heart craves most of all from
you, is contained in an obedience to this brief exhortation—Go thou and
do likewise.

   Dr. Henry N. Guernsey  spoke  as  follows:
   Gentlemen:—It is with feelings of veneration that I rise to respond to the
toast Homoeopathy— that causa for which our distinguished colleague, Dr. 
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 Constantine Hering, in  honor of whose jubilee we  have  assembled  to-
 night, has devoted so much of his lifetime, so much of the severest labor,
 mental and physical,  and  for the advancement of which he has accom-
 plished so much, that his name must be co-identical with the science for all
 coming time.   For centuries back there has been a constant reform and
 progress for the  better in all the  arts and sciences.  The great religious
 reformation of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, arising after  the im-
 portant discovery of the  art of printing, were  to be followed by reforms of
 none the less value to the human race.
   Less than a century  ago, people in every part of the civilized world were
 feeling the need  of another reform—a grand reform in medicine.  The bar-
 barous modes of practice then in use, involving nauseous and poisonous
 doses, deleterious and disgusting mixtures, that loved ones were compelled
 to swallow, resulting in  more harm than good, conspired to cause a cry  to
 go forth:  '' O  that the Lord would send us  something—some little sweet
 something, that we may take when sick to make  us well again!"
   This prayer, so earnestly uttered, the Lord has answered, in sending us
 homoeopathy.
   Homoeopathy is a divine  institution, and should be  most sacredly held
 in trust by all its votaries, even as it was  held by  Samuel Hahnemann,
 whom the  Lord  deputed to impart it, and by his  faithful disciple, whom
 we have brought here to-night, to show our gratitude, and whom we de-
 light to honor.  Homoeopathy has shed a new light upon the whole medi-
 cal world, and is everywhere making apparent its beneficial results.   It
 teaches us that diseases  are not  entities—that they are  not  open to the
 natural sight, touch or  taste, neither are they subject  to the effects  of
 weights or measures.
   The scalpel cannot  reveal, nor  can the microscope  behold  them. All
 diseases are morbid effects of disordered  dynamic forces, and to cure such
 an effect we must seek  a  dynamic force from the medical kingdom, whose
subtlety in degree and  quality equals the subtlety in degree and quality  of
that dynamic force, producing the disease.  This,  and this alone, is homoe-
opathy.  This  science, based  upon  the law similia  similibus curantur, is as
true as the Bible!  It comes from  the same source, and it must ever shine 
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as the great beacon-light in medical science, as the Bible is the  great
beacon-light in the science of theology.  It must ever continue  to heal
more and more the suffering of the human race, as we  come more and
more under its real influence.  It must ever and ever continue  to  over-
come all  other  methods of medical practice, until  homoeopathy reigns
supreme, as the grand and only law of cure for all manner of diseases in
all varieties of living creatures.


   Dr.  Carroll Dunham spoke  as follows:
  Gentlemen of Philadelphia:—An  invitation to Philadelphia, the Mecca
of American medicine,  and especially  of American  homoeopathic medi-
cine, could not fail to meet a cordial response from  every homoeopathic
physician.   An invitation  from so numerous a  body of our colleagues,
representing so worthily our schools, our literature  and our press, and
on an occasion  so interesting as  the celebration of the jubilee of our
venerated colleague, Dr. Hering, so touches us, that I am sure I  utter
the sentiments of all of my associates, when I thank you, in their name and
my own, with my whole heart, for  this  opportunity, to unite with you in
your graceful testimonial of homage and love to our honored friend.
  If the opportunity had been as great as your large-hearted hospitality,
and could have  embraced the wide expanse of our country, these walls
could not have contained the legion of those who would have come up
hither to honor themselves, by honoring your venerable guest.
  Gentlemen,  this banquet, which your hospitality and good taste  have
crowded with viands from the ends of the earth, and decorated with flowers
of every variety of loveliness and fragrance, constrains me to speak of the
banquet at which our friend Dr. Hering has been entertaining us all, and
all of our school in every part of the world,  for a far longer time than my
personal memory can recall.
  For forty years the  feast of reason has been  spread in his study.  The
bill of fare, in our English and in his native German, has been widely dis-
tributed.   The strong  meat of scientific reasoning, the choicest  fruits of
keen and sagacious observation, the wine of  a cheerful, hopeful confidence 
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in the unity and consistency of natural law, the salt and spices of a pungent
wit and a wholesome satire, the milk of human kindness and the flowers
of poesy, have loaded the table, at which every student has  met with a
princely  welcome, the only condition being that he should be hungry and
should eat.
  Twenty-eight years have passed since I, a hungry student,  knocked at
Dr. Hering's door, asking for mental food, and daring to expect at best a
crust, or a soup-ticket directing me to some college.  I was welcomed to
his festive board, and there I have feasted ever since.
  There  is this peculiarity about his banquet, that, whereas here,  what
was order an hour ago  is now  confusion and a mass of debris, his table,
spread for forty years, is now fuller  and richer than ever, though so many
have partaken of his cheer! Nay, he has assured me that though guests
come lean and hungry, as I did, and take their fill, as I did, yet they
rather add to than diminish his store.
  To one thing I know they add—to the blessed consciousness of having
done great good, of having made the rough paths smooth for multitudes of
his colleagues, and through them, to multitudes of the people; a conscious-
ness which, under whatever trials, must gladden these years of our dear
friend's life!
  At a time when many  men give up their labors, Dr. Hering is crowding
his table with choicer viands than he has ever offered us; and his welcome
is still extended, as heartily as ever, to those who hunger for knowledge.
  Gratefully acknowledging the courtesy of your entertainment, we  utter
our fervent gratitude to him in whose honor you give it, and pray for his
health and welfare among you in the many years which we hope are still
in store for him.

   For  a number  of years  preceding his death,  Dr.
Hering was troubled with  an asthmatic  affection
that,  while  not  threatening his  life,  caused him
much  suffering.   In June and  July,  1872, he had
a  severe   attack  of gastric  fever that  lasted  for 
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more than four weeks, and that left him for a con-
siderable time sensibly weakened.  In the summer
of 1876, during  the session of the  International
Congress of Homoeopathic Physicians, after expo-
sure to the  hot July  sun,  he  fell  seriously  ill.
This illness continued for  several months,  and
before  entire recovery was  made one  of  his  at-
tacks of asthma came on.  The attack  seized him
in November and  did  not entirely relinquish its
hold upon him until the following  March.  Dur-
ing this long period of prostration his inability to
work  distressed him greatly.  He spoke of sick-
ness as a miserable state  of existence, and for a
long while he remained sad and depressed.  In
February, 1877, when  he was beginning some-
what  to revive, the death of his  dear  friend Dr.
Carroll Dunham took place,  and the lively sorrow
caused by this loss again cast down his spirit and
materially retarded his recovery.   Excepting the
recurring  attacks of asthma, the last two years of
Dr. Hering's life were unattended by any  marked
symptoms of illness;  indeed, shortly  before  his
death, which was  sudden,—the manner of which
will be described later on—he had tolerable health.
   Dr.  Hering's coming to the United  States was
the result of well considered intention.  He came 
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not to make an  experiment, but to carry out a
carefully matured plan.   After his arrival here he
continued the study of our national institutions
that he had begun in Suriname; and so fitted him-
self thoughtfully and conscientiously to be a good
citizen of his adopted  country.  In politics he
early  took an intelligent interest, which later—
when the events which induced the  civil war were
crystalizing—developed into a fervent enthusiasm.
When Fremont was nominated for the Presidency
his whole soul was in the nomination.  He earn-
estly upheld the principles which Fremont repre-
sented, and he warmly admired that gallant young
officer "who  displayed  a  noble courage in far-
reaching undertakings;  who braved the dangers of
hunger and  cold; who enriched all the branches of
the natural  sciences, and who threw light upon a
vast and almost unknown territory."  During the
ensuing political  campaign he went to the trouble
of making elaborate comparative statistical tables
in which he exhibited the proportion of whites to
blacks; of whites who could read, to whites who
could not, and of  foreign born whites to native
whites in the several States and Territories; and
he  gave  also very heartily his personal influence
toward securing Fremont's election.   His earnest- 
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ness in  this matter was due  in great part to his
intense  hatred of slavery;  and this  same feeling
caused  him to  throw himself  with the  whole
strength of his  being upon the side  of the North
when the war at last came.
  Dr. Hering identified himself with the country
of which he had  become a self-elected citizen.  He
took pleasure in promoting the cause of learning,
both by acting  in  conjunction  with the several
learned societies of which  he was a member, and
also by personally aiding many deserving young
men in their struggle for  education.   He  be-
longed  to various charitable  organizations, which
were the better  managed for his advice, and  the
better enabled to carry out their purposes by his
assistance;  and  he did the work of many char-
itable organizations himself—a' more zealous,  a
more wisely liberal man than he never lived.  He
kept himself abreast of the  news of the day, local,
national and general, and founded upon his knowl-
edge  opinions — positive,  clear-cut  and  usually
sound.  And when the opportunity  arose for him
to make his personal force felt in support of his
opinions he acted as decisively as he was wont to
speak.
  Yet, while thus discharging faithfully and posi- 
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tively his duties as an American citizen, he never
lost his love for his Fatherland.  He was deeply
interested in German affairs always, and even in
his young manhood he had faith in the eventual
accomplishment of German unity.   In the year
1826, while  on a visit to Cologne, he was present
at a banquet at which he predicted the completion
of the great cathedral.  His prophecy was received
with much  mirth, but, undaunted, he arose  and
gave as a toast the  sentiment: "The Cathedral of
Cologne  will be completed as surely as Germany
will become one and united!"  With a good deal
of ironical laughter the toast was drunk, and the
young doctor was not a little complimented upon
his excellent skill  as a satirist.  But he meant no
satire; he was in dead  earnest, and before he died
Germany in very truth was united, and the com-
pletion of the cathedral was assured.  During all
the years of weary waiting his faith in the accom-
plishment of  German  unity never wavered.  In-
deed, it  strengthened with his  strength.   How
well he  foresaw wThat was to come  is shown  in a
lecture that he delivered in the year 1860,  on the
Natural  Boundary, an utterance most remarkable
as it now is  seen in the light of subsequent events.
   A fit  pendant to this lecture  is the following 
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account*  of  the  celebration which  took  place  at
Dr. Hering's house, ten years later, when the unity
of Germany had ceased  to be  a hope  and had be-
come  a fact.

  The unity of the Germans was celebrated in a Family Festival at  the
residence of the venerable Dr. Constantine  Hering, on Twelfth street to-
day. The exercises began at 7 A. M.  The following was the programme:
  Music by a quartet band of brass instruments under the direction of Carl
Gaertner.
  Wie schcen leuchtet uns der Morgenstern.  Nicolai, 1599. "How beauti-
ful the Morning Star."
  Dr. Koch, who was then introduced by Dr. Hering, said:
  If in any family any great event takes place, be it happy or unhappy,
joyful or sad, the friends of the house assemble and express their sympathy
or love, as the circumstances may dictate; that is, they will either  betray
sorrow, grief and affection, or  they will, on a different occasion, express
their joy, happiness or gratitude.  As single families, so are great families
of nations subject to occurrences which, happy or unhappy, joyous or sad,
exert an influence either advantageous and productive of good, or disturb-
ing and prejudicial'not only upon the inner form and order of government,
but also as the single members of the nation's family.
  As you all know, seven weeks ago a family, ambitious, haughty, desirous
of glory, and  believing itself  invincible—the French nation—without
cause, threw the gauntlet jeeringly at the feet of the German  family, with
the vain presumption of  dividing its members, taking possession of its
country and plundering it.  The infamous declaration of war was accepted.
The whole German family, sire and son, husband and  wife,  brother and
sister, united like molten metal into one solid mass, one  gigantic body.
Germany, the land which had so often  been visited by sore  affliction, its
inhabitants disunited and robbed of its territory, but now a united Ger-
many, without stooping to pick up the soiled gauntlet, grasped with  power-

  *  From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, September 10th, 1870. 
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ful hand the sword, and not only repelled the haughty invader, but drove
him  back into his  home,, where he  is now awaiting  the course things will
pursue.
  In order to express our sympathy, joy and exultation with true German
feeling and character, at the brilliant and unexpected success of our Ger-
man brothers, we to-day assemble, at the invitation of our friend Dr. Her-
ing, to celebrate a  Family Festival, in which  we gladly participate to ex-
press our warmest congratulations  on the happy victories  of the United
German people, and sing hymns of Praise to the Father of all.
  Thus shall it be: No Suabia-land ; no Prussia-land ;  no Pomerania-land;
no Bavaria-land; but one Family-land—one strong, united German
Fatherland!!
                               Music.
  Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott.—Luther, 1529.  "A mighty fortress is
our Lord."
  Rev. Dr. Barrett said that he was pleased to meet with Dr. Hering and
his friends, this morning, to render thanks to  Almighty God for the won-
derful things  He had done for the cause of right and humanity in Europe;
for we. have seen, in six weeks, that imposter and miserable schemer, Louis
Napoleon, overthrown, and his dynasty ended.  He had only to regret that
the republicans in France failed to see that this war had been brought upon
Germany by the Emperor, who was indeed France, and that the Germans
had been compelled in self-defence to invade the French territory.   It was
now  the clear duty  of the Republicans who had come in possession of the
French Government to sue for  peace, and beg the clemency of King Wil-
liam to give them the best terms possible under the circumstance.  If they
failed in this, the leader of the German people would be justified in prose-
cuting the war to a legitimate close.   The German people have great reason
to give thanks to the God of nations, to whom all the honor and glory of
their success  belongs;  and he thought the opening  of this  day of thanks-
giving was very properly made in the songs of praise used by the early
German Christians.
                               Music,
  Nun danket alle Gott—Rinkhart, 1649.  " Now thanks be given to the
Lord." 
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  Mr. J. R. Sypher, introduced by Dr. Hering, said: We have reached the
opening of a new era.  We read in  history that the German people were
pioneers in the history of civilization, were celebrated for  profound learn-
ing, practical discovery, and an earnest Christian spirit in the true worship
of God.   We learn from the newspapers of the day that the Germans are a
Sabbath-breaking, beer-drinking, a carousing, noisy, lawless populace.  To-
day history repeats its lesson.   This scum that has long appeared on the
surface is swept away, and the bright metal beneath appears.  The historic
German  again comes to the surface, and the world is reminded that this
noisy element that has so loudly claimed to represent the German character
in America has set up false pretenses.  We have had the carousing celebra-
tions of German victories in the beer-saloons; but we here have the sub-
stantial, Christian-loving German people meeting to give praise  to God for
the great things He has done for their nation.  The pioneer Germans who
came to Pennsylvania in  1683, came with ministers, school-teachers, and
printing press.  They were the first  to print the Bible in America, the first
to establish Sunday-schools, the first  to issue Sunday-school tickets, the
first  to establish schools that were absolutely free, and the first to protest
against holding human beings in slavery.  They have always loved learn-
ing, free schools, and pure, simple Christian worship.  And this is being
made manifest in the progress of the German armies, and the daily thanks-
givings that go up from the  camps of the German soldiers west  of the
Rhine.   For this we have reason to  be thankful.
                                Music.
  Allein Gott in der Hceh' sei Ehr'.—Decius, 1540.  " Glory be to God on
high."

  The company was invited to partake of coffee and sandwiches, and after
that ceremony had ended the  band closed the morning  exercises (it might
with propriety be called service) by rendering the Americanized  tune " Old
Hundred."

  The music for this evening's exercises will be sung by the Mannerchor,
and is as follows : 
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The Song of the Fatherland.....Arndt & Reichard, 1813
As one man we will rise,.....Karl E. Hering, 1846
They ne'er shall have the Rhine,   .   .   .    Becker & Stunz, 1830
The Watch on the Rhine,   .   .   .  W. Mueller & K. AVilhelm, 1854
Why from Rummers Rhenish Wine, .   .  Goettling & Methfessel, 1829
When Noah left his floating  frame,   .    . Kopisch and Reissiger, 1850

   Dr.  Hering  was  a  man  of strong  resolution.
Slow in forming his plans, he was very determined
in executing them;  and while he would  accept
placidly inevitable  digressions and  interruptions
he never  lost sight of the end  that he had in view.
In support of his methods he  often would refer to
the fact that Cato,  who likewise lived  for the ac-
complishment of a  great purpose, ended all of his
speeches with the familiar saying: "Carthage must
be destroyed."   Whatever handiwork he attempted
—and he could use  well his  hands—was done most
carefully.  His great principle  in all things was
to work  gradually.  What sometimes seemed to
be a  digression  in  his speech usually  was found
to be  a by-path that, leading through pleasanter
grounds,  again joined and strengthened the main
course  of his  argument.  Short cuts he avoided
both in talking and in acting.  He  abhorred the
"too  much  trouble"  creed.   His  indefatigable,
painstaking  spirit never was daunted by too much 
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trouble in any undertaking that promised a gain
to science.   And his method of work, while ap-
parently slow, really was  rapid: because when his
work was  done once it was finished.  It did not
have to be laboriously revised, for each part was
proved before it was set  in place.  This habit of
precise labor was due largely to his love for math-
ematics.   Euclid always  was his favorite book;
and  much study of Euclid, strengthening  the na-
tural disposition of his mind, taught him to dis-
trust hypothesis.  It was his  constant habit to
seek out the why and wherefore of things, and he
never was content until  both the cause and the
proof of the  cause were found.
   The results of his researches, as has been  already
said, he  was ever ready  to  share with  all  who
would receive them: for he held all discoveries to
be not merely  for one's personal  use, but  for the
good of  all mankind.  He used  the most bitter
invective  against those physicians who refused to
give the  results of their observations, when of
general value, to the profession at large.  "Where
should we have been," he was wont to  ask, "had
Hahnemann kept homoeopathy to  himself?  Where
should I have been?—for homoeopathy saved my
hand, and with my hand my life!   It is a great 
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sin for a man to keep secret a medical discovery
that will benefit his fellow men."  Dr. Hering
had, indeed, an ardent love for the cause of ho-
moeopathy, as for homoeopathy itself, such as did
not exist, to a like  degree, in  any other breast.
If the need had arisen  he would have sacrificed
for its success everything that  he possessed.  In
truth, in his early years, just as he was beginning
to practice as a homoeopathic physician, but while
he was yet dependent upon the university for sup-
port, he did make precisely this sweeping sacrifice.
Among his autobiographical reminiscences is the
following: "My last farthing was gone.   I  went
to the place where  my weekly stipendium was
paid and asked for the allowance that was due me.
I received the money, but was told that I should
have no more unless I gave up dabbling in homoe-
opathy.   I resented  this insult by throwing the
money which the chief of the institution had just
paid me, at his feet, at the same time exclaiming:
'What right have you  to speak to me thus?  I
shall never touch another penny of this money!'"
This was a bold bit of ship burning;  but boldness
usually wins—in  this case it did certainly.   The
autobiography continues: "From that moment I
never suffered want.  When I came home I found
    4 
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a call to  attend a patient.  My practice began to
flourish and I soon had enough to do.  The man
at whose feet I had  thrown the  money  turned
homoeopath,  and later offered to  pay back my
money, but I was too proud to receive  it."  Of
such stout stuff as this was the Doctor made, and
such was his  love for the cause  of homoeopathy.
Once, hearing a fellow physician say that he was
tired, he  answered:  "Yes, I am tired  too—of life,
of everything.  But  as long as I live I will work
for homoeopathy with all my power."  He believed
very firmly in Hahnemann's earnestly expressed
belief in the principle of "oneness."  He would
say:  "There is an individuality in everything that
the Lord has made.  You cannot substitute one
medicine for  another.  To  mix  medicines is a
crime.  Alternating is the half-way house to mix-
ing.   To make a poor prescription  when much
driven is excusable.   But the  questions which
always must  be kept freshly in mind are: What
is your aim?  What are you striving for?  If a
homoeopathic physician once adopts the too-much-
trouble creed he is lost."   It certainly was not his
creed.  His  rules  of practice, golden rules,  he
called them, were: Learn  to  observe.  Learn to
prove.  Learn to examine the sick.  Learn to se- 
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lect a remedy.  Learn how  to repeat and how to
change .remedies.  Learn how to wait.  Learn how
to profit by experience.
  As  the  traits of character which are presented
here sufficiently show, Dr. Hering was a  philoso-
pher.   He looked at life from a high standpoint,
and he saw life broadly.  The results of discovery
and  of invention, the ideas of philosophers, the
thoughts  of poets, the works  of artists,  inspired
him with admiration; and these,  he believed,
rather than the petty details of the acts of indi-
viduals and of nations, constituted the true history
of the world.  He believed that history, in the
ordinary acceptation of the term, was governed by
laws as fixed as  those which  govern  the move-
ments of the  planets.   He did not, either in great
matters or in small, believe in chance.  He was at
one time a student of Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer,
but he was not wholly satisfied with the systems of
these philosophers.  "My metaphysics," he would
say, "are  written for  shoemakers and tailors.  If
not  intelligible  to  all, I'll  have none of it."
But what he deemed to be sound philosophy he
placed above even his favorite mathematics—re-
garding it, possibly, as the mathematic science in
a still more sublimated form.  "The mathemati- 
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cian," he would say, "must learn to think and to
ask the question 'Why?' at every step.  And this
is the first principle of mathematics."  His con-
cept of  the order  that obtained in  history was
peculiar.  He believed  that as there are governing
laws in  space so are there also governing laws in
time. He argued: "In medicine we observe cer-
tain symptoms and expect others.  From what we
see  and  from what we  infer we make a prognosis.
It is so in history.   We see events, and, by a pro-
cess of  reasoning,  not prophecy, we draw from
these events conclusions.  History is regulated by
laws. These laws bring about  events.  They are
as sure and as harmonious as the laws which regu-
late the motions of the heavenly bodies.  Events
move in history with the same  certainty that the
planets  move in their ellipses."
  His philosophic  temperament, as well  as the
nature of his mental processes,  may be illustrated
by  a few pithy sentences found in his writings or
treasured in memory from his speech:
  Ideas rule the world.
  All new ideas  must be received  like new-born
children and cherished tenderly, for on them de-
pends the future. 
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  The thoughts of man develop; premature nega-
tive proof, therefore, is harmful.
  We must neither accept nor reject a thing with-
out reason.
  Conclusions in science  must be drawn consecu-
tively, like links in a chain.
  Houses, wards, cities, counties, states!  Is not our
Union built upon the  Gothic plan?
  Has anything ever been done in the world with-
out being carried to extremes?
  What  does  not  advance, recedes; nothing re-
mains fixed.
  The side that hates, loses.
  If every physician  pondered over his work as
much as  does  a shoemaker over his, more people
would get well.
  When  asked how he could wait tranquilly so
long while some of his theories were being  proved
to be true he  answered, with Kepler: "The  Lord
had to wait a long time  before people understood
the harmony of His creation!"
  "I was asked the other day whether it was not
very trying and  discouraging to meet  with un-
grateful patients.   "Ingratitude!" said I, "why we
meet it every day.   Our Lord and Master met lit- 
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tie else.  God, surely, has more cause to complain
of it than I have."
  In his philosophy, as is seen here, was true re-
ligion; and  so  it was with  all that pertained to
him, for religion was a part of his life.   He was a
true Christian.  The  existence of a God was with
him an axiom  as well sustained as  any in mathe-
matics.  He believed in free  will,  and he had a
firm faith in a future existence.  He argued, inter-
rogatively: "What would this great world of the
Creator be if there were no hereafter?"   And his
faith was great.   Once he said: "I have trusted in
Providence  all my life;  even  sometimes in a way
that has been  called superstitious by my friends;"
and  this simple-hearted trust in a good God re-
gained with him till the end.  There was an entire
freedom from ostentation  about his religion. It
was sincere,  practical; and it was eminently cheer-
ful;  he did  not surround the greatest joy of his
life with gloom.   His motto was: Love the Truth
because it is Truth, and the Good because  it is
Good.   This was the rule of life by which he lived;
and, having lived by it he was waiting and ready
when the time  came to depart. 
LITERARY LIFE. 
 
 
Dr. Hering in his Study. 
 
 
LITERARY   LIFE.
  A  LONG and busy life is best understood through a
      knowledge of the works which have made that life
 useful; and there is no better way of becoming acquainted
 with an author than by examining and studying what he
 has written.
   A very considerable portion  of Dr. Hering's life, par-
 ticularly the  early morning hours, beginning  at three
 o'clock, were  devoted  to literary work.  His books and
 manuscripts were his companions by night, for his sleep-
ing couch was placed in  his  library.  Before it stood
 his writing table covered with material and necessaries:
 quills uncut  and  quill-pens in all stages  of usefulness
 and uselessness; blue ink, used in preference on account
 of its readiness in drying; red  and blube crayons, conve-
 nient for proof marking and for making marginal notes
 and interlineations; paperweights and blotters, scissors,
 penknives and paper-cutters, all in apparent confusion,
 but within easy reach.   The  light burning over  this
 table had  an  attachment by which he could regulate it
 without taking the trouble to rise.
   When the sleeper awoke all  his materials were ready,
 and by curtailing  sleep, which  his excellent constitution
                         (57) 
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seemed to allow him to do with impunity, many a small
hour  of the morning, when all was quiet in the house
and on the street, was devoted to his literary work.  This
work  was generally protracted until patients required his
presence in the office.   It was  only on rare occasions
such  as Christmas and  New Year's day, the latter his
birthday,  that he consented to interrupt his matutinal
labor to join his family at the breakfast table.  A cup of
coffee or chocolate, generally prepared by Mrs. Hering, or
himself, on a small gas stove, with a rusk or two, was all
the breakfast that he took.  The arrival of the morning
paper, which he always  read with interest, furnished  a
pleasant change of occupation and brought him in sym-
pathy with the  outside world.   Nothing  in  it was too
trivial to  enlist his attention,  excepting,  perhaps,  the
fashions; and these not infrequently gave him an  excuse
for railing at the frailties of human nature, which he en-
joyed doing, and did with  all the force and  freedom of
which he was capable.   But his chief morning pleasure,
one to which he looked  forward as to  the  rising  of the
sun, and one that came with almost as perfect regularity,
was a daily visit from his friend Dr.  Raue, whom he
loved as a brother, and who came  faithfully and  unfail-
ingly, through all weather, between the hours of nine and
ten, for a chat with his revered old friend and teacher.
  Where but a brief synopsis of an author's writings is
all that space will allow, perhaps the best plan to pursue
is that which gives the titles of his essays and books, ar- 
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ranged  in  chronological order, together with brief com-
ments upon  and extracts therefrom sufficiently charac-
teristic  to  convey an idea of the man's views, aim and
style.  This I have  striven to do in the following  con-
densed  review of Dr. Hering's writings.   Most of the
matter  here  reproduced had to  be translated from the
German, the language in which his pen was most fluent,
and this I  have done less with the intention of rendering
the original  into literal English than of catching the
essence and spirit of the writer's style and so reproducing
a likeness,  if possible but one remove from the original.
  The products of Dr. Hering's pen, principally in the
form  of essays,  are diffused  among numerous medical
journals covering a period of over fifty years.  The titles
of these essays and the places where they may be found
I have  quoted, so that all who wish to peruse what he
has written,  may do so without much trouble by  con-
sulting the volumes in the Homoeopathic Library.  His
later  literary  efforts were concentrated upon his  larger
medical works.   A short review of these is all that  space
will allow. They are complete  in themselves so far as
they have  appeared in print, and are  available to prac-
titioners; but they are links which, connected, form the
chain of scientific research in which is summed up the
experience of his life.  In his earlier  years, when cares
were  not so thick, nor duties so pressing, he wrote verse
and light  prose, fairy tales, satires and novelettes.  A
satirical vein runs through  all of his  writings, playful 
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in the lighter  products of his pen, but extremely biting
and severe when in polemics he is called upon to defend
the cause.
  Although Medicine and the Natural Sciences were his
chief love, poetry and music claimed their share of atten-
tion.  Like most  German students, he was passionately
fond of music and the stage.  Some  of his leisure mo-
ments were even  devoted  to the composition of opera
texts.    Of these  the principal  ones  were  "The  Water
Sprite,"  in which the scenes are laid at the bottom of the
sea, and " Der  Arme Heinrich," a poetical subject which
greatly  pleased Spohr, who  seriously  thought  of setting
the words to  music.  Some of  his short  stories, "Die
Wiedergefundene," and "Rosamunde," a novelette, were
published in  a  series of stories, written by  his  elder
brother  Ewald and published in  1826-28 by Kollman in
Leipzig  under  the title of " Sandsteine."  These met with
a ready  sale, the  proceeds of which  helped  the brothers
to defray the expenses of  their university course.   As we
read in  the biographical portion of this memoir, in his
early school days he wrote a composition showing  that
Peter the Czar  was a tyrant, and so drew upon himself
the stern criticism  of his teacher Rudolph.  It showed
that "the boy was the man in miniature," who continued
through life to attack fearlessly  error and  falsity, little
caring from what source they came.
  When a little  more than twenty-one years  old, came
his engagement  to write a  book against Hahnemann, 
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which was to be  published by Baumgaertner in Leipzig.
The book  was nearly done when his conversion to ho-
moeopathy took  place.  He speaks of this event himself
in these words:
  My services were employed to write a book against homoeopathy.  I
first attempted to give a definition of what is similar.  Next I examined
the Materia Medica.  Beginning with the chapter on Sensorium I found
Schwindel under every remedy. I began to think it was all Schwindel!  I
continued my investigations.  It seemed as if some mystic agency was
luring me on  to conviction, for there was rhyme and reason in everything.

  The episode of the wounded hand occurred and put an
end to this undertaking.  He often said: "I am glad that
my book never was printed."
  As the result of his conversion he wrote  an essay en-
titled "The Future of the Healing Art," which he sent
for publication to the  editor of the  first homoeopathic
journal,  The Archives.  After the almost miraculous res-
toration  of his hand by the infinitesimal doses of Arseni-
cum, administered by his Hahnemannian friend, he says:
" The last  veil that blinded my eyes to the  light of the
rising sun was rent and I saw the light of the new heal-
ing art dawn upon me in all  its fulness."  Then followed
the medical  examination and  his  thesis, "De Medicina
Futura."  His characteristic boldness showed itself again
in this, for he stood up, a poor student, before an august
body of learned medical men, the faculty  of the time-
honored University of Wiirzburg, and defended the tenets
of homoeopathy as taught by the fanatic Samuel Hahne-
mann. 
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  From the time of his graduation in 1826, onward, but
few  years passed unmarked  by contributions from his
pen, as the following chronologically arranged statement
shows.  Almost with the beginning of homoeopathic lit-
erature began his contributions to  it;  and these were ex-
tended continuously over a  period  of  more than fifty
years.

  1828.—Extracts from letters from Suriname to Dr. E. Stapf.
—Archives of Homoeopathic Medicine, vol. vii.

  1830.—1. Communications by letter from Parimaribo on the
treatment of Leprosy with Homoeopathic remedies.   2. Report
of a case of fungus hsematodes.—Stapf s Archives, vol. ix.

  1831.—1. Some remarks on the dispute between therapeuti- *
cians and pathologists.  2. First remarks on snake poison.   3.
Fragmentary  observations on  Hufeland's latest  remarks on
homoeopathy and  its founder.  4.  The antipsoric remedies in
their relation to leprosy.   5. A proving of Caladium seguinum.
6. Fragmentary remarks  on the study of remedies and on diag-
nostics.  7. A proposed plan for a more complete repertory.—
Stapf's Archives, vol. x.

  1832.—1. What is necessary to the calling of a  successful
homoeopathic practitioner.   2. A fragmentary proving of Se-
lenium.—Stapf's Archives, vol. xii.

  1833.—A Concise view of the Rise and Progress of Homoeo-
pathic  Medicine.   An Historical Treatise on Homoeopathy de- 
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livered at the meeting of the Hahnemann Society in Philadel-
phia, April 18th, 1833.

   This essay was written in  German and  translated into
English by his friend Dr. Charles F. Matlack.  For the
motto  on the title page, Dr. Hering selected the words of
George  Washington, "Is there  a  doubtf   Let  experience
solve it.   To listen to mere speculation in such a  case were
criminal.  Experience is the surest standard  by which  to test
real tendency."   The spirit of  the essay may be recognized
in the following parapraphs  from it:

  In England and the United States  little is heard of  the new art.  They
have scarcely begun to hear of the medical reformation even now rising up
before them.  Some reviewers, only within a few years past, have noticed
the writings for and against homoeopathy.  These countries have conducted
themselves with the utmost quietude and discretion.   In  both, the physi-
cians of which,, for the most part, being governed more by experience than
by theories, it has been admitted that if the system were true, it would
lead  to highly important consequences.  Yes, certainly experience would
long since  have been appealed to, if  alas! the almost general unacquaint-
ance with the German  language among the better  classes (one  of the
most important languages for the arts and sciences), had not hindered that
result.   Soon indeed, will  this defect be supplied by translations, but may
we not hope that the period is not far distant when, in the United States at
least, the worth of German science and of the language of Germany will
be generally acknowledged ?  May the  day soon appear in which the rich
and fortunate  inheritance of two thousand  years of European culture,
uniting the practical views of the English with  the  ardent zeal  of the
French, shall embrace also the depth and solidity of the German ;  so that
whatever Europe may produce hereafter of greatness in science may, with-
out difficulty, be here appreciated in this central point of the future history
of man. 
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  May our beneficent Society largely contribute to the wider prevalence
and reception  of the Hahnemannian doctrines;  may that which  single
individuals can of themselv<s scarcely  achieve, be effected by united
efforts.  Then in this blessed country may the miseries of disease be dimin-
ished, future generations be rescued from its leaden fetters, the  bitterest
human misery, disease bearing down all earthly joy, become less from year
to year, and  the  sweetest boon on  earth, health and  domestic felicity,
become the portion of growing thousands here as well as in Germany.  In
spite of all adversaries, in spite of all impediments, it  will, nevertheless,
succeed here sooner than  in Europe; for, among a free people, who, with
practised eyes, soon discern the truly useful, a treasure like this new art,
must quickly be estimated  in a degree  commensurate with its real value;
sooner here than by the kings and  princes of Europe, who have other and
more important cares; sooner here than in  those countries where ancient
institutions and proscriptive interests  are supported by a vigilant police,
who impede the progress of the new art by processes, penalties and bayo-
nets.   Here we are beyond such influence.  The American people demand
facts, and  upon these we can confidently and securely rest for our support.
The language of opposition may be employed, but truth is  no longer  ob-
scured here by forms of speech.  The victory will be ours;  and in a century
to come, the anniversary of our society—this first step upon the way which
must lead to the public and general  acknowledgment of the new doctrines
—will be solemnized with grateful remembrance.  So great an aim, indeed,
cannot be attained without labor, but we are prepared to undertake it;  we
shall not arrive at. it without conflict, but we stand equipped for conflict;
we shall not reach it  without defamation; but we will suffer ridicule and
defamation with composure.

   1. Fragmentary reports of symptoms.    2.   A  survey   of
the  entire  kingdom  of  drugs.    3.  Preparatory  attempt   to
serve as a  guide  in making future  investigations (57 pages).
4. Hypothesis and Experiment.  5. Miasm and Contagion.   6.
Pathogenesis and  Patho-exodus,  and various  items of  news. 
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7. Remarks on Psorinum.   8. On the repetition of the dose —
Stapf's Archives, vol. xiii.

  1834.—1.   What  do you mean by "Similar?"  2. Frag-
mentary remarks on the action of several drugs on the well
and sick.  3. Theridion  currassavicum and Lachesis.   4.  A
philological note to the word " psorinum."—Stapf s Archives,
vol. xiv.
  The question "What do you mean  by 'Similar'?"
treated at length in the above-named essay, he had asked
as early as the year 1822.  He differed from the theories
put forth by Hahnemann in this as well  as in most other
respects; and he declared his  opinions candidly during
the lifetime of the Master.   He was  the first to  attack
Hahnemann's doctrine of primary and secondary effects.
He was the first who openly defended pathology against
Hahnemann's views;  and so  successfully that Hahne-
mann sanctioned the teaching of pathology in the Allen-
town Institute.  He was the first to propose triturations
and dilutions in the decimal scale instead of in the cen-
tesimal scale used by Hahnemann.  Yet, while he had
little to say in favor of Hahnemann's theories, he strenu-
ously defended Hahnemann's inductive method of reason-
ing and the practical rules that resulted therefrom.

  1835.—Snake Poison as a Therapeutic Agent.—Stapf s Ar-
chives, vol. xv.
  In 1831, in the same journal, as has been noted, he had
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mentioned snake poison, and had predicted that experi-
ment would raise it to the position of a valuable medical
agent.  This  belief was founded upon  the  facts  that its
inoculation produced an effect similar to that of the
most active vegetable poisons, and that its action, when
taken internally,  resembled  that of the slow but deep
acting  metalloids.  He now, after repeated provings and
successful applications in practice during a period of five
years, declared it to  be a polychrest, a remedy at least
equal in importance to any hitherto in use.

  1835.—Domestic Physician.  1 vol.  First German
edition.—Jena.
  This work, begun in a small way by Dr. Hering, and
given to his friends and patients as a guide and keepsake
on leaving  Suriname, has  passed  through fourteen edi-
tions in Germany, seven in America and two in England.
It has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Hun-
garian, Danish, Swedish and Russian.  From its small
beginning,  a  32mo. volume of 290 pages containing in-
structions for the use of forty-five remedies, the work has
grown  until now, in  its latest revised American edition
(1883), edited by Dr. Claude  R. Norton, with the assist-
ance of Dr. Hering's daughters, Mrs. J. Foster Pope and
Mrs. C. B. Knerr., and published by F. E. Boericke, of the
Hahnemann Publishing House, Philadelphia, it has come
to be an octavo volume of 450 pages, containing a list of
sixty-six remedies, together with the symptoms of dis- 
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eased conditions to which they are applicable.  The pur-
pose of this work was to popularize homoeopathy, as is
declared by the  motto upon the title-page of the  new
edition:  " The greatest  triumph of a  science is  when it be-
comes the common property of the people and thus contributes
to the common weal." The purpose has been successfully
accomplished.  Probably there is not a village  in  the
civilized world, the inhabitants of which have not  seen
or heard of this homoeopathic help  at home, and many
of them have felt its blessings.

  1836.—1. A Preface to the  first American edition of Hahne-
mann's Organon.  Allentown.   2. Homoeopathic Tracts for the
People:   1 The Life of  S. Hahnemann.   2 Seven Characteris-
tics of Hahnemann's Method of  Cure.    Skepticism.   4 Trial
of Dr. Pelleteer in the County  of Pukedom.

  1837.—Hints by which to form a correct estimate of Hahne-
mann's Organon.—Stapf s Archives, vol. xvi.
  Here again is found the free and  independent spirit of
the author who dared  to differ with  the master whom he
revered  and honored, and  to whose  practical rules he
paid  the highest  homage, but of whose theories  he  did
not accept a single one as given in  the Organon.  And
this frank admission of difference of opinion on the part
of a younger enthusiast in the cause, called  forth enco-
miums from the master whose progressive mind led him
to hold  light theories, even his own, which were  not 
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 borne out by experience.  "Let Hering alone," he  said,
 "he knowTs what he is about.  All theories and hypothe-
 ses have  no positive value, but this: that they lead to
 new experiments and a  clearer  contemplation of the re-
 sults of previous ones."

   3. The Effects  of Snakepoison, comparatively arranged for
 therapeutic use,  with  an  introduction on the study of the
 Homoeopathic  Materia Medica.   1 vol., 8vo., 115 pp. (German),
 Allentown.
   This book, although called by the author " an initial
 step," marks an epoch in homoeopathic literature, since
 it is the first attempt at classifying the  pathogenetic and
 therapeutic  effects of the virus  of an important family
 in natural history, the ophideans, comprising Lachesis
 trigonocephaly, the South American Surukuku; Crotalus
 horridus, the North American rattlesnake; Yipera torva,
 the German  viper;  Vipera Redi, the Italian viper;  and
 Naja tripudians, the  East  India cobra; according to a
 scientific plan.   The symptoms of the poison (most exten-
 sively proven by Dr. Hering upon himself), the effects of
 the bite of the  snake, and  the results of clinical  experi-
 ence with their  conditions or modalities, are 3,800 in
number.  In each instance the authority for the symptom
or its origin is  quoted, and in  most instances counter-
reference is  made to  symptoms bearing a similarity or
relation to the one under consideration.  The wTork is a
marvel of painstaking industry, an example of the same 
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love for work and exactness which characterized all his
subsequent labors  in  Materia Medica.  A reprint from
Stapf s  Archives, of cases cured by Lachesis, appeared in
volume II (1814) of the British Journal of Homoeopathy,
and in the same volume was published a translation of
the article " On  the study of the Homoeopathic Materia
Medica."

  1838.—1. The Study of Homoeopathic Materia  Medica —
Stapf s Archives, vol. xvii.

  2. Jahr's Manual, translated from the German by authority
of the North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing
Art, with an introduction by Dr. Constantine  Hering.  1 vol.,
Allentown.
  To this translation  is appended a criticism on the or-
iginal work.   The translating and editing, as well as the
printing  of the  book, was a gratuitous  labor and the
profits realized from the sale of it were appropriated to
the support of a charitable medical institution.

  1844.—An Answer to F. Freiligrath's Epistle to Audubon.
A Poem.   (German) Philadelphia.
  Freiligrath's poem deploring the loss of the red man's
liberty, warns him  against the white invader and coun-
sels him to resist both missionary and yeoman in order
that his freedom may be preserved.  In the answer allu-
sion is  made to the hatred existing between the various 
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tribes of red men; to their unfitness to govern themselves
or others, or to make use of the resources that lie buried
in their domain; to the awe the Indian feels in the pres-
ence of any of the triumphs of civilization, in all of which
he sees or  divines the working or influence of the Great
Spirit—the might  of the ploughshare, the axe in the
forest and the smoke of the forge.  The conclusion ar-
rived at is, that while the songs of the poet himself will
live immortal, the savage will disappear before the march
of civilization.
  1845.—1. Bromine, Chlorine, Fluoric Acid and Sanguinaria.
2. What is  Similar?   3.  Newer Provings.—Stapf's Archives,
vol. xx.  4. Remarks on Jenichen's High Potencies.  5. Preface
to the English translation of " Chronic Diseases," (published in
New York in the same year.)  6. Reminiscences of Scarlet Fever
epidemics.   7. On the relationship of plants.  8. Incidental to
citation-visitation.  9.  A proposed plan for exchange of homoe-
opathic preparations.   10. Pathological Anatomy viewed from
its useless side.—Allg. Horn. Zeitung, vol. xxix.
   11. Homoeopathic Hackels, old and new, for friend and foe,
1 vol. 8vo.  Pp. 70.—(German) Jena.
   This is  a collection  of  Essays, in  German, written at
various times  between  1832 and  1846, on  subjects per-
taining to homoeopathy.   As the  title  indicates, the
author here hackles and tears to pieces the  arguments of
foolish critics and objectors, like flax upon hatchels.  The
humor in these pages is, however, more playful and not 
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so biting as in the "New Hatchels," which appeared fif-
teen years later.  The subjects discussed in Old Hatchels
are,—The Loftiness of Critique (1846); Wiseacreism (1845);
Primogenitureship, or, The Mess of Pottage (1845); " What
is to become of observation, when such presumptions are
made ?   The Art of Settling the Question without  Proof,
a funeral discourse  read  before the Society of Ignoram-
uses in Lieberwolkandwitz ; and Squirting Cucumbers.

  1846.—1. Marginal Notes to the Materia Medica.   2. Fluoric
acid  cases.   3.  What is Similar ?  Part  Second.—Stapf s Ar-
chives, vol. iii.  New Series.   4.  A survey of our provings,
arranged  according to provers.  An historical summary.—Allg.
Horn. Zeitung, vol.  xxxi.   5. A parody on Schiller's Song of
the Bell.  Pp. 45.—(German) Jena.
   The parody of the " Song  of the Bell" conveys some
valuable hints to  church and state,  at the same time,
it admirably preserves the rhythm and swing of the cele-
brated original.   The parody was published  under the
pseudonym of " Schoolmaster of Hippelau."
   In the  British  Journal of Homoeopathy for this year
(vol. 4), is published the anecdote, often related by Dr.
Hering, of the patient who was in search of three  physi-
cians who  would agree on his case.

   1847,—i. The requisites to a correct estimate of Hahnemann.
—Hygea, vol.  xxii.   2. A letter to the editors " On High Di-
lutions."—Brit. Jour, of Horn., vol. 5. 
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  1849.—1.  A note on Calcarea arsenicosa in epilepsy.—Brit.
Jour, of Horn., vol. vii.   2.  Glonoine.—Quart.  Hom.  Jour.,
vol. i.  3. Preface to the third American edition of Hahnemann's
Organon.

  1851.—1. Introduction to the American translation of Jahr's
Symptomatology.—J.%. Hom. Zeitung, vol. xl.   2. Remarks
on proving Arsenicum metallicum.   3.  Daily cycles in Diseases
and  the  Effects of Drugs.   4. Fragmentary contributions  to
Materia Medica and Therapeutics.  5. Proving of  Gymnocladus
Canadensis, the Chicot or Coffee tree.  6. Requisites to a correct
estimation of Hahnemann, (translated from Hygea.)  7. Jatropha
Curcas.   8. Myrtus Communis.—North Am. Jour, of  Horn.,
vol.  i.

  1852.—1.  Psorinum and its chemical rescue  (reprinted  in
North Am. Jour. Horn., vol. ii).   2. Annual recurrences.—Allg.
Hom.  Zeitung,  vol. xliii.   3. American drug  provings and
preparatory work for  constituting Materia Medica a Natural
Science.—Zeit.fur. Hom. Klinik, vol.  i.

  1853.—1.  A reply to the "open letter" in  vol. xliv.   2. A
protest against falsifying  history.—Allg. Hom. Zeitung, vol.
xlvi.  3. On the periodical annual recurrence of certain phe-
nomena (a  translation  of  "Jsehrlich zur selben Zeit in Allg.
Hom. Zeitung,  vol.  xliii).    4.  Pathology  and  the Materia
Medica.   5.  On Materia Medica as a Natural Science.  6. Char-
acteristic effects of  Allium cepa, the  common onion, with a
history of the remedy.—North Am. Jour, of Horn., vol. iii. 
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   7.  Suggestions  for  the  proving of drugs on the  healthy.
(Adopted  by the  American Prover's  Union  and  published  in
pamphlet  form).   Pp.  29.

   1854.—The  Voluntary System  of  Medical  Education.  A
pamphlet.   20 pages.   Philadelphia.

   This pamphlet was an attempt to elevate the standard
of medical education.   In it he says:

  The rivalry of the schools in the business of doctor-making  illustrates
the old proverb, that "competition is the life of trade," but, let it be ob-
served, it reduces  medicine from the rank of a liberal science to that of a
trade, by which the public is  injured, the profession degraded, and only
the traders are profited.   It is not intended to say that every  faculty of
professors are so destitute of  honor, conscience  and professional pride as
wantonly to sacrifice principle  to interest, but it is not too much to say that
too many faculties are seduced from their integrity, and that these have
the power to lower the standard and compel submission in a greater or less
degree from the worthier  or more honorable institutions.  *  *  *  The
public ought to have a more  disinterested and  reliable judgment in the
premises.  *  *  *   At least  three-fourths of the medical schools in the
country are but copies of each other to all  practical and important pur-
poses.  They teach nearly the same doctrines in nearly the same way; on
nearly the same conditions of time and expense, and their diplomas are
as nearly of the same value.   Some of the professors have a higher repu-
tation both at home  and  abroad than others and deserve it too,  but the
system under which they all work gives their pupils little or no advantage
that should result from this difference of ability.   Limited and crippled as
these  institutions are by the policy which rules them, the emulation, so
natural and beneficent,  which  otherwise might inspirit them to  noblest
effort degenerates into a mere rivalry for reputation and material prosperity.
They should be put under happier  influences.  A school must be  deemed 
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peculiarly fortunate, that lias four or five out of seven of its faculty in every
way qualified for teaching acceptably and advantageously.  There are not
a few instances where one or more chairs are held by men tolerably well,
or even very well skilled  in the branches which they are appointed to
teach, but very badly qualified to impart instruction.  Indeed there are
not many instances  in  which more than three or four are such as the
classes would choose, if they had the liberty of making their own selections,
while in an  edifice not more than half a dozen squares distant, they could
find the very teachers whom they would gladly  prefer to those  compar-
atively incapable men who are fastened upon them.
  But even  more than  this:  these faculties are monopolies, exclusive as
well as  inclusive.  They at once contain and retain  mischiefs which are
now nearly incapable of reformation, and they shut out and keep out bene-
fits, which would be worth more to the cause of medical education than all
that they in  fact secure.   They shut out from the office of teacher all those
able men of  the profession who have not the influence of cliques and the
aid of extraneous advantages to procure their election to  professorships in
well established colleges, or cannot find  vacancies waiting to be filled, or
such vacancies as they are best fitted by talents, taste and special  study to
fill to the best advantage.  The courses of lectures given under the present
system are entirely too short.  During the  session of  four or five months
six or seven branches are taught, or are attempted to be taught, by as
many professors, lecturing, say, seventy hours each.  The lecturers them-
selves invariably  complain of the shortness of the time  allowed.  They
hurry, skip and finally make a dead halt before they have nearly traversed
the ground  which they  intended  to  occupy, and every succeeding winter
make the  same haste and  the same omissions upon the same grounds of
excuse.  This complaint lies very justly against the system.  It  is every
day made  by its own supporters, but it is one for which the system  itself
admits no  remedy.  Out of the customary limitation to a duplicated session
of four or  five months (the two sessions which make up the term of public
instruction are, in fact, but copies  and repetitions of each other), there
grows an unavoidable confusion of study, a mixture without order,  relation,
or natural sequence and  dependency.  This must be remedied.  A change 
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is demanded, not merely, however, to afford room for the subject matters
of the customary programme of instruction, but to give  room and verge
enough besides for all those auxiliary natural sciences, and related depart-
ments of remedial practice which are now entirely shut out.  Many of
them are as essential to an adequate medical education as any of those
which it embraces, and all are of such value that any  scheme of study
which excludes them  must sooner or later be discarded.  A Doctor of
Medicine should be a man fully informed of all that experiment and obser-
vation have revealed to discoverers in every range of inquiry which  prom-
ises the acquisition of a new truth, or the correction of an old error. It is
a fatal objection against the systems of medical education in vogue, that
they not only make no provision for such liberality and comprehensive-
ness of inquiry, but absolutely prevent it.
   " To abate these evils and to provide the required con-
ditions for freedom  and progress in medical science," Dr.
Hering,  assisted  by a  number of influential  citizens  of
Philadelphia and vicinity, among them Henry C. Carey,
the political economist, procured an act of incorporation
from the  legislature of  Pennsylvania, dated  May 8th,
1854, for the  establishment in Philadelphia of such an
independent  medical  school.  Its name  was  to  be the
The Independent Medical School of Pennsylvania, and
its  constitution, its  powers  and policy were to be  based
upon the Voluntary System.   Its grand aim was liberty
of teaching and liberty of hearing.   The free interming-
ling of students of the several systems the founder hoped
would speedily remove the bigotries which  now discredit
the profession, retard its progress and impair its useful-
ness.  With these aims the  proposed institution was sub-
mitted to the judgment of the  public.   But, as happened 
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more than once in the life of the originator of the proposi-
tion, his plans were ahead of the times, and although he
no doubt had with him the agreement of the mass of
college  graduates throughout the  country the  enterprise
failed for want of practical aid.  Nevertheless the doctor
never faltered in his efforts to infuse a higher moral en-
thusiasm into college life. How far he succeeded his asso-
ciates and pupils will have cause gratefully to remember.

   1854.—1.  The  Pathologizing of Materia Medica.  2. A col-
location  of essentials  to a good drug proving.—Allg. Hom.
Zeitung, vol. xlvii.
   During the years 1854, '55 and '56,  Dr. Hering, in con-
junction with Dr. Lippe, edited The Homoeopathic News, a
monthly bulletin, each number containing eight pages
of printed matter arranged under the following heads:
I.  Important  events and short reviews  of new  books
and journals  of our school.  II. Practical  observations.
III. Original  communications  on prevailing  diseases.
IV. New and  corroborating  observations on the old rem-
edies and diagnostic remarks for a  comparative repertory.
V.  Important observations with new remedies.   VI. Ex-
tracts from a collection of letters  from  Hahnemann,
Stapf, Gross,  Jenichen and others.  VII.  Queries  and
criticisms.  For  all this  the nominal price of thirty-six
cents per annum was charged, the object being to cheapen
the subscription rate by making it an advertising sheet,
and so to widen the circulation  of homoeopathic news. 
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   1855.—For the celebration  of the Centennial Anniver-
 sary of the birthday of Samuel Hahnemann, held by the
 friends of homoeopathy in Philadelphia, at Sansom Street
 Hall, Dr. Hering wrote an historical introduction  entitled
 " Hahnemann in the  Cradle," from which the  following
 is a quotation:

  "When the  father in his  delight looked upon the little boy  as he lay
 sleeping in the  cradle, could a thought of this have entered his mind?
 Could he have imagined that so many  years after, in a far distant land and
 another hemisphere, reached in his day only after  long, tedious and dan-
 gerous voyaging, in that small town laid out by Penn on the river Dela-
 ware, in the wilds of Pennsylvania, known to him only from the narration
 of missionaries, this day would be  remembered ?  In that town,  grown to
 be one of the great cities of the  world, the birthplace of a nation's indepen-
 dence, a seat of intelligence, a  nursery of science and a home of the arts,
 so great a number, impelled by gratitude, would freely gather together to
 do honor in solemn assembly to him who lay there in his cradle wrapt in
 the soft slumbers of innocence ?   Even  the angels in their holy watch could
 not have forseen what was known to the Lord alone.  But what was it that
 the father thought?  It was made  known to  us.  While he looked upon
 the son so much desired, this was the thought: " If that boy is permitted to
 grow up, I will give him lessons in thinking."  As he thought and deter-
 mined so he acted.  An old man  in Meissen who had forgotten the son
 when he heard of his fame, said smilingly: " Many a time have I taken a
 walk with his  father, and always at a certain hour he would say: ' I must
 go home now,  I have to give a lesson to Samuel, a lesson in thinking; that
 boy must learn to think.'  And he did learn to think, and he dared to  be
 wise."

  1856.—American  Provings (advance  notes from the work
which followed a year later.)—Zeit. fiir Hom. KliniL, vol v. 
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  1857.—American Drug Provings. 1vol.  886 pp.  (German).
C. T. Winter, Leipzig and Heidelberg.

  This work, one of the most important of Dr. Hering's
productions, was a preliminary attempt to  raise Materia
Medica  to the rank of a natural science.   How far this
attempt was  successful  the verdict  of sincere, earnest
critics has shown and will show.  The collection of drugs
in this  first volume is  varied  and important.   In  the
carefully  made  provings the  physiological  effects  are
brought out with a clearness and  precision which estab-
lish for  each of the substances tested its place in thera-
peutics.  The Glonoine,  so  named by Dr. Hering, by
chemists called  nitro-glycerine, from which is  prepared
the powerful  and destructive dynamite, although discov-
ered some time before by a chemist named Sobrero, was
nowhere obtainable and  had to be made  at the instiga-
tion of  Dr. Hering.  This was done by the Hon. Morris
Davis, of Philadelphia, then  chemist  for  the  Lovering
Sugar  Refineries.  Dr.  Zumbrock, of  Washington,  Dr.
Hering's  assistant, also  spent  a great amount of patient
labor upon its preparation, and succeeded  in discovering
a method by which the substance could  be made, even
in the hottest weather, an undertaking previously fraught
with clanger, on account of its ready explosiveness by
contact with  heat.  The effects upon the provers, of whom
Dr. Hering himself was foremost, were of  the most pain-
ful character, some of them having symptoms strongly 
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resembling apoplexy, the violent headache  with great
rush of blood to the head being painfully prominent.
  The Apium  virus, or poison of the honey bee, its  deri-
vation, nature and  effects, upon the healthy as  well  as
the sick, has  received at Dr. Hering's hands the  most
complete and careful elaboration.   It is doubtful whether
in the literature of any people, any  medical substance
has ever received a  similar amount of attention.  Oxalic
and Benzoic acid, Millefolium, Cepa, Hippomanes, (suggested
by Rev.  John Helfrich,  of Pennsylvania, a skilful and
enthusiastic amateur homoeopath, to  whom Dr. Hering
was  devoted  in friendship),  Jatropha curcas, Xiphosura,
Rumex  crispus, Kalmia latifolia, and Aloe, their  history,
introduction,  proving and  arrangement of symptoms,
complete the volume.
  A second volume was to contain studies of twelve reme-
dies, the fruit  of more than thirty years labor, including
the combinations of Calcarea and Phosphorus, Calcarea and
Arsenic, Cinnabaris  and Turpethum, Argentum, Palladium,
Selenium, Tellurium, Fluorine and Bromine, Alumen, one or
two  plants, and  probably  two products of the  animal
kingdom, the  analysis of which would have been of con-
siderable importance to science.  But on account of the
slow sale of the first volume, the  market for this  class of
literature being  limited, the publisher  did not  care to
undertake  the publication  of a second, and the uncom-
pleted manuscripts  remained on the author's shelves, the
essential portion of them waiting to be embodied in the 
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later and larger medical work, the Guiding Symptoms
of Our Materia Medica.
  The " American Drug Provings " were dedicated to Dr.
Hering's friend, Dr. Ernst Stapf, in Naumburg, Germany,
in a letter of which a translation is subjoined, showing
with what  generous  impulses the author was animated,
and what enthusiasm he brought to his work.

                      Philadelphia, Aug. 28th, 1856.
Dear Friend Stapf:
  When Goethe sent to Dobereiner those  precious pieces
of pure Platina from the Duke's collection, it having been
said how useful this metal might become if better known,
he gave to the delighted chemist this charge: "Examine,
that good  may come of it."   Dobereiner felt  rich as a
Briton, elated as a Frenchman, happy as a German;  and
went to work.  His investigations furnished useful con-
tributions to the great stream of science.
   When he put into the Duke's hands the igniting-ma-
chine, the  purest, highest  that mind  of  man ever  in-
vented, in which the lightest of the elements ignites a
flame in the heaviest, each had reason to be satisfied with
the other.   Little did they dream what other flame had
already been kindled through the sacrifice of the Platina
ore, a flame  which will continue to burn beneficially to
the end of time.  For thou didst think—and a  great
thought it  was—if gold and silver in trituration can act 
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so powerfully  on  the well  and  the  sick,  why  not
Platina?
  It was this that drew thee towards the new source in
the chemist's laboratory.
  From his abundance he weighed thee twenty  grains;
and thou wert successful in reducing it to a crystalline
powder.  Thou didst prove on thyself and thine, on thy
friend and his wife; and the  new image  of Platina re-
vealed itself in lines so sharp and true as to bear exami-
nation  from the keenest observer as  long as  there are
thinking men.   Thousands have already been made well
by Platina, and in the same ratio as the number of physi-
cians who gain scientific freedom through accurate think-
ing increases from year to year, more will be healed.
   Where are the 117  grains which later  were used on
dogs  and rabbits by Gmelin?  Where the fruits of this
bootless labor?
   With the Platina thou didst at the same time pave the
way to a new manner of preparation, that of precipitating
metals in dust-form; an essential advance in the proving
on the  healthy  as well as in  the treatment of the sick.
As soon as chemists had learned to make  more prepara-
tions of a similar nature, and J. B. Buchner had urged
their introduction, and Mayerhofer had made  his excel-
lent investigations (microscopical), this  remained a per-
manent legacy.   And still further were carried the fruits
of thy  thought.  The first number of the Archives  ap-
peared, issued by Reclam in Leipzig.  To purchase it, a
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poor young man parted with his last groschen.  In it he
found Platina;  he  read, and felt as did Balboa and his
followers when, in the home of Platina, they reached the
heights  and first saw the broad ocean on the other side
of the continent.
  " Each metal acts, and each in its peculiar way."   These
words were all sufficient.  Work!  and Materia Medica
must become a natural science.  This remained the ru-
ling idea of his life.  He has since grown old, and rich
in all good gifts, and greets to-day, thee, to whom he
owes all this.  And if these words of love do reach thee,
let also hope stand by thy side: "See how the spirit-shut-
tles fly, and one stroke such varied combinations makes."
  As  Dobereiner was influenced by Goethe; thou by Do-
bereiner, and as thou in turn didst animate me, so may
these words work good where we neither know nor  can
foresee.   They may raise up a hero for the days that are
coming, the days in  which the dragon of prejudice  and
delusion will  be  slain.   Therefore, in good faith  as we
have worked until now, let us continue to work; the time
must come when the right will prevail.
   Our noble art will be wedded to true science, and  physi-
cians will be happier and make happier.  Our work will
never go down, because it promotes the  most beneficial
of arts, and that by strict investigation; and because it
thereby belongs to the higher, the eternal; to that which
was and is and is to  come.
   So fare thee well.
                         Thy Constantine Hering. 
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  1858.—1.  Baunscheidtismus;  or,  The Secret Discovered.—
Zeit. fur  Hom.  Klinih., vol. vii.

  2. A comforting elegy at the grave of despair of all medical
youths in our dear country and other nice places.  Printed for
private distribution.  Philadelphia.
  This is an  excellent satire in verse,  containing  six
hundred lines, suggested  by reading in a German paper
an  account of  the forty-third  convention  of German
naturalists  and medical  men held  in  Bonn  in  1857.
The  closing words of  Professor Strempel, the orator,
which gave rise to the satire were to the effect, that there
were not the least grounds for despair in the practice of
medicine on the part of younger members of the profes-
sion;  that although patients often got well of themselves,
and nature received the credit of these  cures, there was
no  denying those made by drugs, even  in large doses;
that the newer generation of doctors  should  turn  to ac-
count the experience of the profession, and never trust to
experiments made on the healthy or so-called provings of
medicines which never could be of the  slightest use  in
the treatment of the sick.  The assembly rose en masse
and cheered the speaker.
  Dr. Hering's lines begin: "Not to write satires is hard,
sighs   Juvenal," and  preserving the classical measure
throughout, the writer deals out, in the  most humorous
terms, ridicule and rebuke to the Old School as well as
hard  knocks to those within the walls who deserve  them. 
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  1859.—1. A peal for the Jubilee, Schiller, Shakespeare, Hum-
boldt.  An Address.  Philadelphia.
  2.  A Criticism on the British Repertory.—Am. Hom. Rev.,
vol. i.

  I860.—The Natural Boundary.   Pamphlet.  8vo.,  pp.  27,
Philadelphia.
  In this pamphlet, originally a  lecture delivered before
the Kannegiesser Club of Philadelphia, organized for the
purpose of discussing  German politics in a friendly spirit,
Dr. Hering  defined  the boundary line  that  equitably
should exist  between  Germany and France.  The broch-
ure was read with considerable interest in political circles
and its bold remarks, prompted by love and loyalty to the
fatherland, were greatly commended by those on the Ger-
man side.  He defined the natural boundary of a country
to be its natural landmarks, such as the sea, mountain
ranges and water-sheds.  The German Rhine stream was
not to be the dividing line between two countries so dif-
ferent in character.  The Germans must have what  be-
longed to them centuries ago, portions of the land on the
left bank of the stream, Alsace and Lorraine.  In illustra-
tion of this he made  very ingenious use of " Red Riding
Hood," the favorite French nursery tale,  but gave it the
German ending.
  Not Ked Hiding Hood (Alsace) alone must come out of the wolf again,
but also the old grandmother (Lorraine), who for long centuries has been
sleeping there.   (Strange to say the grandmother does  not figure in the 
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French version of the fairy tale; in the German she plays an important
part.)  As all  know the wolf had  gobbled  up the grandmother;  to carry
out our simile, in the hurly-burly of time, he had appropriated the Rhone
district.  He next cast his eye upon charming Red Riding-Hood, flattered
her and fawned upon her, tried his old tricks, went  to bed and put on the
Richelieu cap.  Red Riding-Hood  had gathered flowers in the woods;
the blessed  blue flower which  opens heaven and  its  wonders; the red
flower which opens the poet's mind to all that happens on earth ; the yel-
low flower to which are  subject all treasures in and upon  the earth, and
she came to  offer her flowers to grandmother.  O, thou home of poetry
since time immemorial,  thou land of Burgundy, dost thou not find pleas-
ure in the flowers that now blossom on the Rhine ?
  There lay the wolf in  bed.  " What big eyes  you have!"  " That I can
better see you!"   " What a big mouth  you have !"  " That I may better
eat you."  No sooner said than done;  Red Riding-Hood is gobbled up.
Here the nursery tale ends as told by the French.   Grandmother is eaten
up, Le Petit Chaperon-rouge too, and the wolf is master of the situation.
He thinks he  has a  right to both, the  rapacious creature who figures so
largely in French nursery tales and sayings.  (There is, however, a young
hunter in the German version of the tale, who comes to the rescue, shoots
the wolf through the head, cuts him open with  his hunting knife and lib-
erates Red Riding-Hood.)  Alsace, our  beloved Alsace, with its cathedral
in Strasburg, and all the true glory of our Goethe, the young hunter, meet
and embrace.  Thus  far my grandmother had told  me the story without
mentioning Alsace, for T was but  six years old.  I wanted to know what
had become of the grandmother.  Where was she ?  This pleased the old
lady and she answered, " that is what Red Riding-Hood  asked the young
hunter when they were  so happy, and he looked into the wolf again, and
there  found  grandmother  fast  asleep.   They helped her out, she  rubbed
her eyes and said, ' how long  I have been asleep this morning!' and bustled
off to bake some cakes."  The end, of course, pleased me, the six year old,
best;  but I know that I was then a true and thorough  German without
being aware  of it.  And now, past sixty, I am  still a German, with this
difference, that I am thoroughly aware of it.   And I am aware of more than 
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this.  I know that if we ever regain Alsace, Lorraine the grandmother,
must not be forgotten.
  Since the great struggle between  the Powers of 1870
and 1871, Alsace and Lorraine once more belong to Ger-
many, and it is easy to imagine what joy filled the heart
of the author of " The Natural Boundary" at this con-
summation of his  intense desire.   The pamphlet written
ten years before seemed almost prophetic.

  New Hatchels.  1 vol.  (German) Leipzig. A. Wienbrack.
  Like its predecessor, this volume is a collection of satiri-
cal essays.  Under their  several  titles,  a commentary,
with extracts, is appended.

  No. 1.—Homoeopathic College- and other Chairs.  This is a
reply to three columns in the German Klinih, headed "A
Homoeopathic  Chair," by  Dr.  Alexander Goschen, ad-
dressed to the Prussian Government, with the intention
of rendering unsuccessful an appeal for the founding of
a homoeopathic hospital.   The issue joined is theoretical
rather  than practical, for Dr. Hering was ever opposed
to courting favor from corporation authorities, and would
rather  have  seen  his cause slighted than  introduced
by force,  as was  near happening when Napoleon  read
Hahnemann's Organon  before his march to Russia, and
threatened to introduce the new treatment into the army
on his return.  On hearing  of this Dr. Hering said he
was twice as glad of his overthrow.  Restraint upon the 
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arts and sciences was  as  odious to  him  as the loss  of
personal liberty.
   Dr. Goschen  makes free use of the old and  threadbare
phrases," homoeopathy is dead," " homoeopathy is dying,"
" homoeopathy  is  losing ground," to  which Dr. Hering
replies:

  Were it not much wiser if such were really the case not to interfere with
the granting of an appeal for a hospital in which, according to the logic of
the learned doctor who writes for  the Klinik, not the least good could be
done, and hence must, on account of its own  masterly inefficiency, end in
a total smash-up ?   These phrases I have often heard  in many lands and
in different places.  The  first  time they fell on my ear is exactly as many
years ago as Moses saw fit to keep  the Jews wandering through the wilder-
ness, with  this difference, that the  Jews finally entered  the promised land,
but the doctors still remain outside.  I was at that time employed in writ-
ing against homoeopathy, it was  in the winter of 1821,  and when I de-
clared my intention to make the experiments, I was warned by the apothe-
cary in Leipzig, in whose good graces I stood and who had given me many
a handsome specimen for my pharmacological collection, of the danger a
young man exposed himself to under such circumstances, the risk of fall-
ing into the trap, the almost inevitable chance of ending in self delusion.
At these well meant admonitions I probably turned up my nose, but when,
after carefully examining into the matter I found there was something in
it, something that could not be refuted, my book remained unpublished,
and with the renewed violent outbreak against Hahnemann which occurred
at the  time, I had much to  suffer, even the pangs of hunger.  I  wan
warned by kind friends to desist from making sacrifices  to a dead cause.
That was the first news  I had of the death of homoeopathy.
  In despite of all homoeopathy was yet alive a year later, although I had
come near dying myself, that horrible death to which so many young phy-
sicians have fallen victim.  I was  called  upon to make a post mortem in
the case of a suicide whose  body had  been taken from the  grave, because 
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others were afraid to undertake the job.  Through working too long among
the poisoned entrails, a cut on my finger which had scabbed over became
denuded, partly through washing my hands in hot water and soap, and in
a few days my finger had begun to mortify.  I was  enabled to study the
disease  against which  leeches, calomel and hell-stone proved powerless.
Amputation I declined, because the loss of my first finger would have ser-
iously embarrassed me in the practice of my profession.  So deeply incredu-
lous was I at the time, of the action of remedies applied internally, and
especially in small doses for external diseases, that it was with difficulty a
pupil of Hahnemann persuaded me to take the ridiculously minute doses
of Arsenicum.  When a sense of recovery from this terrible affliction began
to pervade  me, there vanished the last  obstacles that  interposed between
my eyes and the rising sun of the new healing art.  The finger  is still my
own; it is the one with which I  pen these lines.  To Hahnemann who re-
stored  it was given the hand, even  more, the man, body and soul; his
teachings had  not only been the  means of saving  my life, but new life
filled my very soul.  And  they say to me, the  living, " homoeopathy is
dead!"  So time and time again, the dead have buried their dead, and the
world moves on.
  We do not  hold in contempt your teachings, which we accept as far as
they accord with  truth, nor do we disdain your opposition,  for we recog-
nize the historical necessity of antagonism in a province in which proba-
bilities must be weighed.  We admit that the newness and  strangeness in
the teachings of Hahnemann must astonish investigators as they have as-
tonished us.  We are prepared to answer all objections made in a proper
spirit, and will do so cheerfully.  But we  do hold in contempt all efforts
to slander and undermine our cause.   We regard our cause in the  light
of an historical event destined to benefit humanity, and we carry within us
the assurance that victory will be ours.

   No. 2.—Doppelmops  (snuff) in homoeopathy.   This satire,
put in the form of a  letter, from school-master Sneeze-
back,  in Wartewitz, to  Dr. Hering, and  an  answer from 
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the same  to school-master Sneezeback, was  occasioned
by an attempt on the part  of a bungler  in the homoe-
opathic ranks to  introduce mixed  prescriptions.  School-
master  Sneezeback has caught  the mania to  dabble in
homoeopathic medicines.    He  sends for a  box of  the
highest potencies, which he obtains through the wife of
the magistrate, whose husband, however, is not favorable
to  the cause, and  surreptitiously tampers with the med-
icines as they pass through the custom house.

  Imagine Sneezeback's consternation when, on opening the box, he  finds
a chaos of broken glass, pellets and corks.  Through every curl in the
paper shavings are visible the sharp projecting, yet gently curving  glass
splinters, looking for all the world like the poison fangs of a young brood
of rattlesnakes.  In what idiotic bewilderment lie the smooth corks,  their
tops bearing the imprint of abbreviated names and numbers prefiguring
lofty things.  And alas, the globules !  Where are they?  Scattered like
Napoleon's army when routed by the icy winds of the north and Moscow's
flames. Never had he seen such a lot of priceless, forty-day acting, high,
most highly charged pellets rolling in such utter and  hopeless confusion
among the litter of paper and glass in the bottom of the box!  Oh, school-
master, sobbed  the magistrate's wife, how rough was the coach-box in
which came this precious  parcel; how uneven are still the ways of our
dear fatherland!  Sneezeback took comfort to  his soul  by "saving the
pieces," which he carried  home, sifted the globules from  the  paper and
broken glass, put all the globules together into a jar with dilute  alcohol,
labelled the bottle " Universalinum," and  the greatest idea of the century
was complete.  Here was a ready remedy for every ill.  Good bye to books
and hard study, in future the practice of medicine is easy!

   No. 3.—A proposal for the entire annihilation of the so-
called homoeopathy by a scientific method. 
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   Under the adopted name of Dr. Wisent, the sobriquet
of his student days, the author has here written over fifty
pages of as interesting  matter as  ever entered into the
composition of  a hoax.  The  proposition  to  kill homoe-
opathy in a highly respectable manner, is put into the
mouth of Professor Wunderlich, the  celebrated medical
practitioner and historian in  the  old  school.  To him
also  is satirically  dedicated  the second  edition of this
pamphlet.   Perhaps some  idea of the  admirable  irony
which  pervades the whole composition may  be formed
from reading the following brief extracts.   Without any
regard to the high and  influential position of his  oppo-
nent, the doctor applies  the lash without mercy.
  Says the allopathic professor: It is in vain that the students of medicine
in all German universities are warned  against, and influenced to abhor,
this monstrosity (homoeopathy).  The dangerous period arrives when these
young doctors enter practice.  It is then that they are misled by acquaint-
ances and friends, or seduced by the prospect of gain;  and  too often after
trying the dangerous method in secret they later become open professors
of it; and what is most remarkable is that these deluded victims become
enthusiasts  in defence of what formerly, in the light of reason, appeared
absurd to them.

  The articles of confession divulging the weak points in
the old faith, which  precede  the proposition  to kill, are
six in number.
  1. In the first place we are too hotheaded in our written replies as well
as in our personal remarks.  It is a fault, but it is poor strategem.  We
have been tried to the extreme verge of endurance, but this does not ex-
cuse  our want of etiquette in the  eyes of the public.   I would  counsel, 
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either that we entirely ignore our  opponent's doings, their writings as well
as all they say and do, or  that we confront them with cool and  dignified
selfpossession, in literature as well as in private life.  Not a year passes
but we hear of new steps of progress made by our opponents; each month
brings us news of influential people having placed themselves under their
treatment.   We now and then hear of their failures to save a patient, but
more often we hear of imaginative people who are credulous enough to be-
lieve that they have gotten well under that treatment.  I would  therefore
strongly counsel that we refrain from  crowing over every bad  failure our
opponents make; it only incites them to redoubled exertions, and we  can-
not expect to awaken enthusiasm against them, but they understand  how
to arouse it in  their behalf.  It would be better to throw from us all such
useless weapons.
   2. It is not a good plan to underrate the strength of an enemy.  Many
a  lost battle recorded  in  history will serve as a warning example to all
who would disregard this  admonition.   We cannot  close our eyes to  the
fact  that men  of influence, mind  and intellectual attainments, have gone
over  to the other side.   Persons who have been inveigled  will not thank
you for trying to open their eyes ; besides, in a field where facts may be so
differently  interpreted, it were folly to attempt aught else than the expres-
sion of an opinion.
   3. It is not safe  to challenge a comparison of work done in  hospitals,
clinics and the like.
   4. It does not pay to ridicule the enemy.  It is a game at which two can
play; besides, attempts of  the kind  such as the well known allusions  to
sugar powders, bottle  washing, etc., always fall flat, and often have the re-
verse effect of what was intended.  Our opponents appeal to experience
and tell us to make the experiments, which is, of course, altogether out of
the question for a regular physician to do.
   5.  It is a mistake to attribute cures made by homoeopaths to faith, nature
or diet.  Our  patients will naturally clamor to be cured  in  a like easy
manner.  It is likewise futile to endeavor to instruct our patients and  talk
them into a belief that homoeopathy is all moonshine and devoid of merit.
It has been my sad experience that after such well meant instruction, some 
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of my best families have taken the first opportunity to try secretly the new
method, and became converts.  People have a strong leaning to a belief in
wonders  and so-called miracles, and it is useless to try to explain away
anything of the kind, particularly when they have made trial and obtained
relief.
  6. Finally, it is  an unpardonable and  fatal  mistake if  we resort to un-
truths or become guilty of injustice, as I blush to own has often happened,
in our mode of warfare against the new school.  The fruits have been bad.
With all due respect to a high code of morals, I am not at all disposed to
moralize or preach, I will simply call  attention to  the advice given  by a
French  woman  of the world to  her nephew.  " Dear nephew," she said,
"never tell a lie!"  When the nephew received this advice, with a some-
what surprised air she continued, "I will tell you why.  Because none but
fools and blockheads  will  believe you !"   A good cause will  never be
helped by an untruth.  It pains me to meet again and again with such un-
just assertions as these:  " Hahnemann  was a charlatan," " homoeopaths
conceal  the most deadly  poisons in their small doses," " homoeopaths are
no surgeons," " their standard of medical education is not up to the mark."
All such assertions serve  but to place us in a contemptible position, and
fail to have the desired effect of annihilating homoeopathy.
  Arrived at this point of self-abnegation and high standard of medical
ethics, the professor offers a series of resolutions, which if carried  out, he
believes will be calculated to give homoeopathy the death blow :  " Resolved,
That we forbear hostilities against homoeopaths in general as well as indi-
vidually, as nugatory in  effect and discreditable to  ourselves;  that  in the
light of enemies we ignore their existence in word, social intercourse and
literature.  By this  course we hope to quell their opposition,  and  should
they persist in persecuting us, it will  be the means of turning the  tide of
public sympathy in our favor ; it is by no means intended that we  should
hold ourselves aloof from  all means of becoming better  acquainted  with
their doctrines; on  the  contrary we  should not miss  an opportunity of
learning from them; we need not scruple that by this means we raise
them into undue prominence.
  Resolved, That we no  longer experiment on the  sick, but try the effect 
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of our drugs on the healthy; that we pay more attention to what  are
called trifles; in short, that we learn to individualize as closely as our op-
ponents  do.  We are aware of the importance of experiments  hitherto
made on animals, but realize that provings made upon ourselves and such
friends as are willing to assist science, are of greater importance.
  Resolved finally, That we exercise the utmost justice in giving  credit
where it is due ; let us acknowledge the good Hahnemann and his school
have done; the modifying influence it has exerted on our practice;  the
almost total abandonment of blood-letting; the reduction in size and se-
verity of blisters; the diminution of the quantities of medicine heretofore
given ; the finer physiological effects of drugs of which we have become
convinced  through the experiments on the healthy;  the greater acuteness
with which we observe and investigate diseases; the more minute  atten-
tention  paid to the injurious influence on the health of stimulants  and
other agencies formerly considered inert, now forbidden as disturbing  ele-
ments in the treatment of a case ; the addition of new remedies to the Ma-
teria Medica, as for example, Xux vomica, Arnica,  Pulsatilla, etc.  As
all this  has exerted  a powerful influence to remodel our practice,  let us
then give  honor where honor  is due ; let us above  all things  be scrupu-
lously just, and we shall surely triumph over our  opponents, who, perhaps,
in less  than a decade will be spoken of as having existed and fulfilled
their mission; homoeopathy will have experienced total annihilation.

   No.  4.—Anacardium as Anticriticum.
   Hatchel No. 1, against Goschen & Co., being thought a
little too severe, drew upon the author the censure of one
of the  homoeopathic periodicals,  and in this, No.  4, in his
usual  lively vein, he takes occasion to criticise the critic.
Anacardium, a drug which has  among  its provings the
symptom  "all things taste  to him like herring-brine" is
recommended.   It might also benefit the critic's  "weak
memory " in regard to the effects of high  potencies, which 
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he often fails to remember.  The Anacardium symptoms
of the "popular Polonius" are analyzed at greater length;
let  us hope that he took the remedy and  was  cured  of
hyper-criticism.
  With this,  the fourth essay, the author  of "Homoeo-
pathic Hatchels" makes his bow to the public, and closes
his short series of satires with the following remarks:
  *  *  * I am nothing more than a pennon bearer in the bull fight; I throw
my banderillas (little harpoons with rustling ribbons and explosive squibs)
into the bull's neck when he snorts in the arena, or has grown indifferent
to the picadores ; but I withdraw into the farthest corner when the mata-
dors enter.  I see the principles of Grauvogl excite the bull to rage and
frenzy, and in his maddening attack receive into his hearf, the piercing
sword of philosophy ; I see him fall; the matador, quick as lightning, has
withdrawn  his sword, and proudly waving  it aloft, he marches trium-
phantly through the arena, and then forgetting all prevention-of-cruelty
disapproval, I shout for joy with the people because of the victory achieved.

  1. Cases of Diphtheria.—Am. Hom. Review, vol. ii.
  2. Preface to the Fourth  American edition of Hahnemann's
Organon.

  1861.—1. Critical Remarks on the  Scientific Communications
on Snake-poison.—Allg. Hom. Zeitung, vol. lxiii.
  2. Where is the Proof to these  Symptoms?  A Reply to Dr.
Hoppe.—Hom. Vierteljahrschrift,  vol. xii.

  1862.—1. Gelseminum nitidum,  an important new polychrest.
—Allg. Horn.  Zeitung, vols, lxiv and  lxv.   2. The contro-
versy is ended; to what purpose now the Shiboleth, an unintel- 
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ligible one at that?—Horn. Vierteljahrschrift, vol. xiii.   3.
Digitalis according to the  Monography of Bsehr and Black.—
Am. Hom. Review, vol. iii.

  1863.—1.  A warning  against  the  Parisian "Lachesis."   2.
Anecdotes from  life.   3. A review of  Kleinert's "Sources  of
Physiological Drug  Provings."   4. A  Historical  Remark on
Euphrasia.  5.  Conciliatory Criticism upon  the Parisian La-
chesis.—Allg. Hom. Zeitung, vol. lxvii.  6. Proving of Lith-
ium carbonicum.   7. Chessmoves; a reply to the  "Studies"  of
Dr. Roth in  Paris.—Hom.  Vierteljahrschrift, vol. xiv.   8.
Provings of Lithium carbonicum.—Am.  Hom. Review, vol. iv.
  9. Moss and Mosquitos.  A popular science discourse.   Pam-
phlet, 8vo., pp. 8.  Philadelphia.
  In this short paper  the author  puts in a plea for the
much disliked and  abused mosquito, claiming for that
little insect  useful  services rendered for which mortals
cannot be too  grateful.   He  very carefully  studied the
habits  of the  mosquito  and  discovered that  its  larvae
purify swamps and stagnant pools  from the matter which
renders noxious  the atmosphere and breeds malaria.
  By observation he estimated that  a single active  larvae
is able to purify half  a  pint of dirty water in an  hour.
  * * * Giving the little worker eight hours out of the twenty-four in
which to rest he would still accomplish the purification of  a gallon per
day, or in his short life of about three weeks duration, a total of twenty-one
gallons.  There are  millions of mosquitos.  Each mosquito lays about
three hundred eggs, from which come three hundred more larvae, and as 
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she repeats this effort half a dozen times in a season, she is capable, with
her active family, of purifying six trillion gallons of water in a year.  Is
she not entitled to our respect ?  In future let us not begrudge her the wee
drop of blood in return for which she renders us such valuable service.
  In a study of mosses is found a further  illustration of
the great utility of small  things.
  * * The mosses, joining their leaflets, cover large tracts of hillside, and
with their tiny hands catch the torrents which pour from the clouds, break
their force, and gradually, little by little, give the water to the fountains, the
rivulets and the streams.  Where the mosses are not, the sudden and  vio-
lent showers of rain pour precipitously down the hillside, carry with them
the good soil, choke with mud the valleys, fill with sand the beds of brooks,
produce freshets and destroy the  work of human hands.  Moss protects the
forests, and the forests maintain the world.
  In the  year 1863-'64, Dr. Hering wrote a series  of
short German  stories or novellettes which were published
in Sondershausen by  Fr. Aug.  Eupel, under the title of
" Flugblaetter," Flying Leaves.   As the title  would  in-
dicate  these publications were written  in a popular style,
their purpose  being to acquaint the laity with homoeop-
athy in a pleasant and readable form.   It was always his
aim  to instruct the  people,  and when  he wrote for them
his  style was at its  best; he then gave utterance to  his
best thoughts, in  language both  plain and forcible, as
may be seen in his  popular work on domestic medicine,
particularly in the German edition.

   1864.—1. Langhammer  and no end.  2. A  Request for in-
formation from  Dr. Eidherr.  3. The morbid fear of Hydropho- 
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bia (reproduced in Am. Hom. Review, vol. v.).—Allg. Horn.
Zeitung, vol.  lxviii.   4. Tellurium against trichina.   5. A
proposed complete Materia Medica (reproduced in Am. Hom.
Review, vol. v.).  6. The superficial and  the vital in our Ma-
teria Medica.—Jbid, vol. Ixix.  7.  Introduction to the  course
of lectures on  Therapeutics at the Homoeopathic College, Phila-
delphia  (delivered October  13th).   8.  A  few wellmeant
words  to beginners on  our Materia Medica.—Jbid, vol. lxxi.
9. Provings of Tellurium.  10.  A proposal to publish a stand-
ard work on Materia Medica.—Am.  Hom. Review, vol. v.
   1865.—1. An American protest against Lutze's publication
of Hahnemann's Organon.  2.  The new Materia Medica.  3. A
golden wedding in Philadelphia.   4. Sifting the drug symp-
toms (reproduced in Am. Hom. Review, vol.  vi, and in the
Brit.  Jour, of Horn., vol. xxiv).   5. An example of patho-
logical  presumption.  6. An essay on taste and  smell.—Allg.
Hom.  Zeitung, vol. lxxi.   7.-Hahnemann's three  rules con-
cerning the rank of symptoms.  8. The rules of sides.   9. Rule
and rules again.—Hahnemann Monthly, vol  i.   10. Our  Ma-
teria Medica.—Am. Hom. Review, vol. vi.

   1866.—1.  Provings of Cistus canadensis.  2. Gross's differ-
ential  diagnosis of remedies,  with  specimen pages from  his
work.   3.  The importance of complete collections of symptoms.
—Allg. Hom. Zeitung.  vol. lxxii.  4.  Kobalt; an American
proving.  5.  The so-called cholera on board of English ships.
6. Wilful misrepresentations.  7. Our success.—Ibid, vol. lxxiii.
8. Remarks on Badiaga.—Hahnemann Monthly, vol. ii.
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  It was about 1866 or 1867 that Dr. Hering first issued
his "Characteristics" or "Materia Medica Cards," several
editions of which have appeared since then.  This system
for memorizing the chief symptoms of our remedies, in-
vented by a student, now Dr. D.  G.  Tucker,  of Rhode
Island, has simplified and  made  convenient the study of
Materia Medica  to many  a student;  even older practi-
tioners have joined in the instructive pastime.

  1867.—Gross' Comparative Materia Medica.   1  vol., royal
octavo.  520 pp.   F. E. Boericke, Philadelphia.
  The manuscript for this  work, the fruit of many years
patient  labor on the  part of Dr. R. H. Gross, a German
homoeopathic physician, was sent to Dr. Hering,  who
undertook as a labor of love, to  complete, translate and
edit the same in this country.  After having  the whole
of the manuscript copied  into more legible German by
his scribe, Dr. Hering with the assistance of his daughter
Odelia,  now Mrs. J. Foster Pope, devoted an entire  year
to the translation and revision of  the same.  The read-
ing of the proofs, eight of which had to pass under the
 yes of the reader in order to insure the greatest possible
accuracy, was an arduous task,  particularly since  "the
setting in type of the manuscript offered such uncommon
difficulties that it required great  skill, experience and in-
genuity to overcome them." The latter named part of the
work was very creditably  performed under the superin-
dence of Mr. John H. Schwacke  foreman of the book de- 
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partment in the printing establishment of King & Baird.
The work was  not only a stepping stone, on the part of
the publishers,  whose edition of the work was univertally
admired and commended, to  the publication  of  other
large works, but it also proved to be a transition to more
complete works on  Materia Medica  which have  since
followed.  The book contained about five hundred com-
parisons of  one hundred of our  most  frequently used
medicines, and the earnest  student and careful practi-
tioner have now a better chance than they ever had before
to obtain a differential knowledge of them.   The book is
of the greatest value in all cases where the practitioner is
not perfectly certain of his choice between two or  three
highly similar  remedies; a single glance at the columns
of related and  opposite symptoms will  often decide the
most important questions and save much time and trouble
in arriving at a choice of the prescription.

  1.  Midwifery  in America.—Allg. Hom. Zeitung, vol. lxxv.
2.  Characteristics.—Hahn. Monthly, vol. iii.

  In the year 1867, Dr. Hering was elected  Dean of the
Hahnemann College and lecturer in that institution on
the Institutes of Medicine and  Materia  Medica.  In the
following September he delivered the introductory lecture
to the course.   With what vigor and energy he came to
his work is shown in the  following extract  from the
closing  portion of his address, where he alluded to the
year 1876, in which was to occur the fiftieth  anniversary 
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of his  graduation  in  medicine and his  seventy-sixth
birthday.

  * * After Napoleon had disturbed the peace of Europe, and was finally
beaten in the battle of Leipzig by the allied powers, and banished by them
to the Island  of Elba, he returned again with a large army.  The allies
had once more to  march from the North to the South.  Bliicher was
placed at the head as main commander of the Prussian army, and marched
from the North towards Belgium.  Great objections were raised on account
of his age.  " He is old now and infirm and full of queer notions," the ob-
jectors said.  He was attacked near Ligny before he  was ready and was
beaten;  his horse  fell, he was thrown  under it, and was carried away for
dead.  Of course in a day he rallied  again, sat on the back of another
horse, and was smoking his pipe lustily.
  Napoleon now turned  his whole power against Wellington who was
before Waterloo.   The Iron Duke stood it manfully and  not yielding an
inch all day, kept his position firm.  But as the sun turned towards  the
West  and sank deeper in the  horizon,  the Duke wrote with a lead pencil
the order to his generals  to be ready to retire during the night and retreat
to another position.  There was a little cloud  seen in  the far East on  the
horizon.   The cloud increased. It was an army coming nearer like a
hailstorm, and  the cloud  opened, and  cannon balls burst from its depths
like hail into the right wing of the French army and rolled it up.   The
battle was won.  Who was the commander of that army ?  Who rolled up
Napoleon's old guards with his young volunteers ?  It was Bliicher, the
old man of seventy-six.


   1868.—The  Last  Events of 1867, or the Telemicroscope of
Gottlieb Juntz, and the Organopathy of Wm. Sharp, M.D., F.R.S.
Dedicated to the young  men  of this  country, our hope,  our
pride.  Not written for incurables, either in  the New or the
Old World.   (Pamphlet, 22 pp.)   Philadelphia. 
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  This little work is of a polemical character, and it was
of it that a friend said  to the  author,  "you have not
only killed your opponent dead, but you have opened his
skull and shown to the world that there are no brains in
it."  The pamphlet is written  in the humorous satirical
vein, but how much the writer was in earnest is shown
by its closing words.
  Kepler said: " If the Lord had patience to wait so many thousand years
until  the harmony of the universe was understood by some of his own
images, made in his own likeness, shall we,  the poor creatures, ' men of
like passions,' not have the patience with our fellow-men to wait a few
years? Let us wait!  Truth from heaven will never perish."
  1.  Spongia  in heart affections,  from  lectures  on  Materia
Medica.—Allg. Hom. Zeitung, vol. lxxvi.   2. Skirmishes on
our Eastern  coast.   3. The lectures on  Hausmann's  book in
Philadelphia.   4. Proving of Tetradymit.—Ibid,  vol. lxxvii.
5.  Homoeopathy in Iceland.—Ibid, vol. lxxviii.
  1869.—Heaven for Homoeopathy.  An Historical Document.
Pamphlet.  5 pp.  Philadelphia.
  This curious piece of antiquity is taken from  a work
entitled Acta Sanctorum, published by the Roman Catho-
lic church in the year 1658, the manuscript of which had
been  kept in Rome since A.D. 787,  the  time when it was
written.   The  portion of  the manuscript  having  a  bear-
ing on the law of similars treats of the case of Theodoras,
" who was suffering from a  disease which he had con-
tracted  by eating noxious food given to  him  by wicked
men," and was cured by the saints " who, being power- 
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ful  through a heavenly decree, applied a means of cure
wonderful  and evidently divine, not curing contrary with
contraries, as mortal physicians are wont to do, but like things
by the use of like."   The translation from the Acta Sancto-
rum was made by the doctor's friend and patient, Prof.
Geo. Allen, LL.D., professor of Greek in  the University
of Pennsylvania.   The  pamphlet was reprinted in the
Hahnemann Monthly, Vol. 5.
  Annual Meeting of Homoeopathic Physicians.—Allg. Hom.
Zeitung, vol. lxxix.

  1870.—Houatt's  Provings  and their self-styled Critics.—
Hahnemann Monthly, vol. vi.

  1871.—American Votes on the Question: German or Roman
Type?  Collected  by Dr. Constantine Hering  in Philadelphia,
with a  few words  in  conclusion by F. I. Frommann, in Jena.
Pamphlet, 16 pp.  German.  Jena.
  Dr. Hering being of the opinion that Latin or Roman
letters do not facilitate the reading of German  books to
American  and English  students, that on the contrary,
they render it more difficult, published  this pamphlet,
and in support of  his argument  he included  in his work
letters, substantiating his views, from the following emi-
nent philologists, professors, doctors  of medicine and men
of letters:  Prof. 0. Seidensticker, University  of Pennsyl-
vania;   Prof.  Oelschlaeger, compiler  of  Oelschlaegers' 
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German-English dictionary; Prof. E. R. Schmidt, histor-
ian ; Prof. Angela, teacher of the German language in the
Philadelphia High School; Prof. J. E.  Hilgard, of the
United States Coast Survey; Dr. I C. Hilgard;  Dr. Chas.
G. Raue, professor in the Hahnemann College, in Phila-
delphia; Mr. R. Koradi, of the firm of Schaefer & Koradi,
and Fr. Frommann, the head of the German Publishing
House, in Jena.  This belief concerning the relative mer-
its of German  and English type is shared by many read-
ers of German, who will unhesitatingly say that it  is
easier for them to read German in its proper than in Ro-
man type.  In the choice of German text, Dr. Hering's
taste was governed in a large measure by his love for
the Gothic in art, but he was also influenced by his pat-
riotism, which made it painful for him to look upon his
mother tongue in  a foreign dress.  His opinions in re-
gard to a preference in type, were likewise  confirmed in
a practical way, by the results obtained by his friend,
Professor Frederick  Knorr,  teacher of German,  who  is
affectionately remembered  by his numerous pupils  in
Philadelphia.  His plan was to teach  his  pupils first to
read and write German script,  afterwards the printed
text.  In this way they learned to write German letters,
besides becoming familiar with  the works of the most
diffcult of the German  authors.  Dr. Hering  never
missed an opportunity, either directly or indirectly, to
influence the minds of his patients in a way to improve
and enrich them with  useful knowledge, believing that 
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a fresh interest awakened  in any useful subject was a
strong aid to getting well.
  1.  The ant as a medicine.  2.  Critical  hodge-podge.—Allg.
Hom. Zeitung, vol. lxxxii.  3.  Our invitation to the Interna-
tional Congress.  4. Sulphur in Cholera.—Ibid, vol. lxxxiii.
5. Formica,  the  ant.  6. Calcarea  phosphorica,  a resume  of
provings and cures.—North. Am. Jour. Horn., vol. xx.
  7. Formica as a remedy.  8. History of the Provings of Cal-
carea phosphorica.  9. Provings  of Lobelia coerulea.—Hahn.
Monthly, vol. vi.  10.  The Great Desideratum.—Ibid, vol. vii.

  1872,-1. Virchow's  Verdict—Allg.  Hom.  Zeitung, vol.
lxxxiv.   2. Seven Notes on Hahnemann and his "Absurdities."
3.  A Protest.   4. Silicea  after  Vaccination.  5. Critical  Re-
marks on Dysentery.—Hahn.  Monthly,  vol. vii.  6. Disease
Germs.—Ibid, vol. viii.

  1873.—Introductory of X. Y. on taking the chair as Pro-
fessor of Homoeopathy at the University of Strasburg in  the
year *  *  *.  Pamphlet, 14 pp.  International Hom.  Press,
Leipzig, German.
   This is a lecture on Paracelsus and Hahnemann, in
which the lecturer addresses an imaginary class of medical
students  of the old school,  giving  expression  to  some
hitherto little known  historical facts, in  the endeavor to
excite an interest in homoeopathic principles and experi-
ments. 
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  1. How to  treat prevailing diseases.—North  Am.  Jour.
Horn., vol. xxi.   2. Offensive odors from the mouth and their
treatment.—Hahn. Monthly, vol. ix.

  Complete  Materia Medica.  1  volume.   Boericke  &
Tafel.   Philadelphia, 1873.
  The collection of sixteen monographs printed seriatim
in the American  Journal of Homoeopathic Materia Medica
was republished in the form of an octavo volume of 700
pages, including  a  Pathological Index, by Boericke  &
Tafel, Philadelphia,  in 1873.  The volume includes the
complete symptoms,  pathogenetic  and clinical, of Alum,
Carburetum sulphuris, Coca,  Cuprum, Eupatorium perfolia-
tum, Eupatorium purpureum, Formica, Mercurius iodatus
rubrum, Natrum sv.lphuricum, Nux moschata, Osmium, Phy-
tolacca decandra,  Sar'saparilla, Spongia tosta,  Stramonium
and Titeridion curassavicum.
  Of  these, Stramonium and Nux moschata  are specimens
of complete  and indefatigable research.   In the case  of
Nux moschata nearly 200 authorities have been  quoted,
their  observations extending over a space of more than
eight  centuries.  It  forms the most complete history of
any drug  in any Materia  Medica.  On account of the
full, comprehensive and comparative arrangement of the
drug effects entering into the composition of this volume
of Complete  Materia Medica it is in many respects the
most instructive  ever issued.  It is the result of gigantic
labor,  and yet forms only  a very small  portion of the 
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work  the  author intended  to do and would  have done,
could another lifetime have been granted him  in which
to complete what he had begun.

  1874.—1. Observations on Solar and Lunar Influences and
their relation  to  our Materia Medica.  2. Correspondence.—
Hahn. Monthly, vol. ix.

  1875.—Mathematical certainty.—North Am. Jour. Horn.,
vol. xxiv.

  Analytical Therapeutics,  vol. 1, 8vo., 352 pp. Phila-
delphia.
  This first volume of the "Analytical Therapeutics"
was published under  Dr. Hering's personal supervision,
and was dedicated to his dear old friend, Dr. Jacob Jeanes,
"the true Hahnemannian, the father of many new ideas,
the faithful prover, who freely bestowed on all  the  fruit
of his researches."   The typographical arrangement and
style of printing, executed by the author's son, Walter E.
Hering, is a  model of excellence.  Dr. Hering had the
work in anticipation for nearly thirty years, and next to
the Materia Medica it is his most important production.
"When completed,  it will comprise  about  six  volumes,
containing, condensed into the smallest available  com-
pass, the chief points of physiological experiment and
homoeopathic  practice.  The first volume  contains the
mental effects as they have been observed in connection 
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with bodily symptoms.  Dr. Hering well  realized, and
often declared, that a knowledge of the combination of
symptoms  is what physicians most  stand in  need of.
In  practice he never made  use  of the  whole  range of
symptoms in any remedy, but always only of particular
combinations of them.  Every remedy contains the in-
dications of a vast variety of diseases. In this analytical
work, therefore, it was his intention to give to  the busy
practitioner in a comparable form, "the manner  in which
each drug acts upon and influences each  organ  and part
of the  body, as regards the nature, kind and degree of
action."  While in the  Materia  Medica he constantly
aimed to perfect and  complete the form of  each remedy
by  synthesis, in  this work he proceeds  bjr analysis  to
give a digest of the most essential results of  our  provings
as well as of our clinical experience.
  A revised edition of this  first  volume, edited by  Dr.
Hering's literary executors, with a  more complete index
prepared by Dr. L. J. Knerr, has been published under
the auspices of the American Homoeopathic Publishing
Society (Philadelphia, J. M. Stoddard & Co., 1881), under
the title "Symptoms of the  Mind."  The  material  for
the remaining  volumes of this great work was left in
available shape at Dr. Hering's death, and  may be pub-
lished after the completion of the Materia Medica.

  1876.—On Primary and Secondary Symptoms.—North Am.
Jour. Horn., vol. xxv. 
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  1877.—1.  Our Nosodes, part I.  2.  The Desiderata of our
school.   3. Terebinthinse  oleum, recommended for the preven-
tion and treatment of malarial and intermittent fevers.—North
Am. Jour. Horn., vol. xxvi.
  The Condensed Materia Medica.   1 vol., 8vo, 870 pp.
Compiled  with the assistance  of Drs.  Farrington and  Korn-
doerfer.   Dedicated by the  author to Dr. Chas. G. Raue, his
former pupil and assistant and for seven years his colleague as
professor in the Hahnemann  College of Philadelphia.   Philadel-
phia, Globe Printing House of Walter E. Hering.   Publishers,
Boericke & Tafel.
  In 1879  the author,  assisted by Drs. Raue, Mohr and
Knerr, issued a  more condensed, revised,  enlarged and
improved edition of his Condensed Materia Medica, like-
wise enriched by contributions from friends in  the pro-
fession.   Printer and publishers the same.
  It was Dr. Hering's  object  to give  in  this work the
chief characteristics  of the principal remedies in use, for
he said:  "The proper mode of studying the whole Ma-
teria Medica  consists in making  one's self complete^
master of a few medicines, and afterwards of those most
nearly connected with them."  In another place he said:
"And yet the homoeopathic physician who knows  little
more than the characteristics  of a few polychrest medi-
cines is like a weak chess-player,  who  only knows one or
two methods of giving  checkmate which he has learned
from studying the fag-ends  of games  played  by master 
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players, together with  some few  other  modes which he
has himself discovered."
  As a text book for students the "Condensed Materia
Medica" has its place,  but the careful  practitioner will
far more  often have recourse  for guidance to the more
ample and more  profound  "Guiding  Symptoms," or
" Analytical Therapeutics."

  1878.—1. Our Nosodes, part II.  2. Palladium.—North Am.
Jour. Horn., vol. xxvii.  3. Hahnemann's three rules concern-
ing the rank of symptoms.  4. The rules of sides.—Am. Horn.,
vol. ii.

  1879.—1. Origin of the theory of primary and secondary
symptoms.—North Am. Jour. Horn., vol. xxvii.  2.  A way
to become  rulers of the medical world.  3.  Correspondence on
topics of the time.—Med. Counsellor, vol. i.

   Guiding Symptoms.   Vol. I, 8vo, pp. 506, and in 1880
Vol. n, 8vo., 506 pp.  Philadelphia.   Globe Printing House of
Walter E.  Hering.  Published by the American Homoeopathic
Publishing Society.  J. M. Stoddart & Co., Agents.
  On this extensive medical work was bestowed the best
labor of Dr. Hering's life.   In  a letter to the British Jour-
nal of Homoeopathy on  the subject of high  dilutions, he
says: "All my labors, all my meditations and researches
for more than twenty years past  (this wTas in 1847), have
been  expressly directed to obtain and  to arrange with 
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scientific precision those peculiar characteristic symptoms
which in practice will determine us in our choice of the
remedy."
  For more than fifty years, therefore, he was engaged in
preparing the material for  this work.  All the provings
made by himself, his pupils and friends; all the carefully
prepared provings of others in the profession; the toxico-
logical reports of  trustworthy men in the old school; all
his own clinical observations,  as well as those culled from
books and journals, were collected  by him, and, after
being subjected to a  most  critical  examination, were
placed  in his collection, which year by year, assumed
larger  proportions.  From this  voluminous material,
however, only the best was to be taken for this book, only
"the  peculiar  characteristic  symptoms  arranged with
scientific precision," and  only the symptoms of those
remedies that had been tested in practice.
  As a basis, the well known scheme of Hahnemann is
taken.   But  this  is much improved upon by additions
of new chapters, which give the work more practical
value.   "Groups  of symptoms  as they  appeared  in the
provings, or as they were cured at the bedside, remain as
far as  possible undetached, but single divisions  of the
symptom-group are quoted wherever  it is likely that they
may be looked for."
  The admission of purely clinical symptoms is a feature
of the  book which the  author  vindicates  upon the plea
that "clinical symptoms must be noted as well as those 
Ill
obtained from provings, since a drug cures many things
which it cannot produce, although, as we  must suppose,
it should have the power to do so, for provings  on the
healthy are confined to a narrower limit,  while diseases
have a wider range of symptoms;  that is, symptoms on a
larger scale.  Produced symptoms, however, are far more
positive and reliable; more sharply defined; more char-
acteristic."
  Some of his ideas of the manner in which the remedies
in the Materia Medica should be studied we have in the
following quotation:
  "A mere acquaintance  wTith the principal  symptoms
cannot  be called studying the remedies, although we
might make it the basis of our study.  The study of Ma-
teria Medica must be regarded and dealt with  in exactly
the same manner as that of other natural sciences; in
their  present  state all the relationship existing  among
the various classes and  orders  may be seen at a  glance,
and the study of them is thereby  greatly simplified."  It
was his intention to bring Materia Medica to such  a pitch
of perfection.   He well understood the laborious path he
was treading, but he followed it patiently and persever-
ingly, for he  saw light in the distance.   In  one of his
essays he says:

  As the progress of invention facilitates commerce and travel more and
more, so the progress of science always lightens the task of learning what
has been discovered, and the same will be the case as regards the Materia
Medica. Until that time comes we must study the remedies as we find 
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them; the time is, we hope, not far distant when we shall be able to talk
about the objects of our science in the same manner as natural historians
do of theirs; when, like them, we may be able to give complete descrip-
tions of these objects, without touching upon the unimportant matter; the
time, we hope, is  at  hand when we shall know what is and what is not
important in our Materia Medica.
  That he had cause to feel proud of the attainments of
our school, we see in a quotation from his article," Mathe-
matical Certainty," published in the New York Quarterly,
in 1875, five years before his death.  He wrote: "The pro-
gress we have made in our  Materia Medica towards a
natural science  is much greater than has ever been the
case with any other natural  science in the same time.
They all have ages behind them—we have our  centen-
nial before us in 1890."  And the additional words: "Let
every man do his  duty."  This is  what he tried to do
from the beginning when the determination to build up
our Materia  Medica became a settled purpose   in  his
mind, and  nothing  could make him  swerve from it;
nothing daunt his will: he even staked existence for its
fulfilment.
  He spent his  life in research for our benefit.  He pre-
pared  the harvest for us to reap.   He had even begun
to  cut the ripened grain, and in  the first and  second
volumes, finished by himself, shows us how to bind up
the sheaves.  At the beginning of  the third, the hand
that had worked so long and untiringly fell nerveless,
even before the ink had  fully dried on the page  last
written. 
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  The third volume of the work has since been finished,
and the fourth nearly so.  To carry the work to comple-
tion, strictly in accordance with the plan of the architect,
is the intention of the workmen employed upon it.  The
work of arranging and placing the material is laborious,
but finds encouragement and reward in the prospective
pleasure of seeing the building when completed an orna-
ment to medical science, and of use to countless suffering
individuals.
  1880.—During this year, the last of his life, Dr. Hering's
time, so far  as  literary  occupation  was concerned,  was
devoted  almost  exclusively to vigorous  work  upon his
" Guiding Symptoms "—to reading and revising the proofs
of the volume then going through the press, and to  pre-
paring further instalments of the voluminous manuscript
for the printer.
  Being thus closely employed, his usual flow of contri-
butions to the professional  journals ceased.  One single
paper only over his  signature was published  during the
year: a letter to the editor of The Medical Counsellor, Dr.
J. P. Mills, narrating the wonderful effects of Staphisagria
after an operation for lithotomy,  performed in the year
1836 by the celebrated old  school surgeon, Dr. George
McClellan, then Professor of Surgery in Jefferson Medical
College.  This account of one of  the earliest of the tri-
umphs  of homoeopathy in this country, was the last pro-
duct of Dr. Hering's pen that appeared in print while he
was  yet alive.
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  Few men, even in a literary life-time of half a century,
have added to the world's store of knowledge to the ex-
tent that Dr. Hering did; and still fewer have been the
men who, doing  so prodigous an amount of hard work,
have done it  so  uniformly well.   The motive that ani-
mated him, the power that upheld him in his long labor,
the purpose for  which he lived, he himself, indirectly,
but  most truly, has set forth.  His character as a man
cannot be  more  fitly described, nor can  this  account of
his literary life be ended more aptly, than by quoting
these his noble  words, written  in the  year  1855, after
his  organization  of  the  Provers  Union,  to  encourage
among  its members  the  proving of poisonous  drugs.
His words are:
  11 Let every true Christian follow  in the footsteps of the
Great Captain  of his salvation and ' lay down his life for the
brethren''; that is, let every true homoeopathic physician ex-
periment  on himself as a healthy subject, instead of his patient
as a  diseased one, let him offer  himself a sacrifice, give a free-
will offering of his own suffering, pour out  a part of his own
life, to win the guerdon of the divine gift of  a  more infallible
and increasing ability to heal the sick." 
INDEX.
  Abbreviations:—A. H. Z., Allgemeine Homoeopathische Zeitung;  Am.
Horn., American Honiceopath; Am. Hom. Rev., American Homoeopathic
Review; Brit. Jour, of Horn., British Journal of Homoeopathy ;  Cor. Blatt,
Correspondenz-Blatt;  H. M., Hahnemannian Monthly; Hom. Clin., Jour-
nal of Homoeopathic Clinics (part of American Journal of Homoeopathic
Materia Medica);  Hom. News,  Homoeopathic News; Hom. Viertjschft.,
Homoeopathische  Vierteljahresschrift;  Int.  Hom.  Press, Internationale
Homoeopathische Presse; Med. Couns., Medical Counsellor; N.A.J.of H,
North American Journal of Homoeopathy;  Quar. Hom. Jour., Quarterly
Homoeopathic Journal;  St. Ar., Stapfs Archives; Zeit.fiir Hom. Kl., Zeit-
schrift fur Homoeopatische Klinik.
A Collocation of Essentials to a good Drug Proving. 1854.  A. H. Z., v. 47.
A  Comforting Elegy at  the Grave  of Despair of all Medical
    Youths in  our dear Country and  other Nice Places.  Phila-
    delphia, 1838.
A  Concise  View  of  the Rise  and Progress of Homoeopathic
    Medicine ; historical treatise.   Philadelphia, 1833.
A Criticism on the British Repertory.   1859.  Am. Hom. Rev., v. 1.
A Few Well-meant Words to Beginners, on  our Materia Medica.  1864.  A.
    H. Z., v. 71.
A Golden Wedding in Philadelphia.  1865.   A. H. Z., v. 71.
A Historical Remark on  Euphrasia.   1863.   A. H. Z., v. 67.
Allium cepa.   1853.  N. A. J. of H., v. 3.
American Drug Provings.  Leipzig, 1857.
American Drug Provings and Preparatory  Work for Constituting Materia
    Medica a Natural Science.  1852.   Zeit. fur Hom. Kl., v. 1.
American Provings, advance notes.   1856.   Zeit. fur Hom. Kl., v. 5.
American Votes on  the Question: German or  Roman  Type?
    Jena.  1871.
Anacardium as Anticriticum ;  No. 4 of New Hatchels.   Leipzig,
    1860. 
11.6
Analytical Therapeutics,   l vol.  Philadelphia, 1875.
An American Protest Against Lutze's Publication of Hahnemann's Orga-
    non.  1865.   A. H. Z., v. 71.
An  Answer to F.  Freiligrath's Epistle  to  Audubon.  Poem.
    Philadelphia, 1844.
Anecdotes from Life.  1863. A. H. Z., v. 67.
Anecdote of a Patient in Search of Three Physicians to Agree in His Case.
    Brit. Jour, of Horn., v. 4.
An Essay on Taste and Smell.  1865.  A. H. Z., v. 71.
An Example of Pathological Presumption.  1865.  A. H. Z., v. 71.
Annual Meeting of Homoeopathic Physicians.   1869..  A. H. Z., v. 79.
Annual Recurrences.  1852. A. H. Z., v. 43.  1853.  N. A. J. of H., v. 3.
Antipsoric Remedies in Relation to Leprosy.  1831.   St. Ar., v. 10.
A Peal for the Jubilee, Schiller, Shakspeare, Humboldt. Philadelphia, 1859.
A Proposal for the Entire Annihilation of the So-called Homoeo-
    pathy by a  Scientific  Method;  No. 3  of New Hatchels.
    Leipzig, 1860.
A Proposed Complete Materia Medica, a standard work.  1864.  A.  H. Z.,
    v. 69;  and Am. Hom. Rev., v. 5.
A Proposed Plan  for Exchange of Homoeopatic  Preparations.  1845.  A.
    H. Z., v. 29.
A Protest.  1872.   H. M., v. 7.
A Protest Against Falsifying History.   1853.  A. H. Z., v.  46.
A Reply to the " Open Letter " in vol. 44.  1853.  A. H. Z., v. 46.
Arnica, in Intermittent.  1868.   Hom. Clin., v. 2., p. 210.
Arsenicum Metallicum, Remarks on Proving.  1851.  N. A. J. of H., v. 1.
A Request for Information from Dr. Eidherr.  1864.  A. H. Z., v. 68.
A Review of Kleinert's " Sources of Physiological Drug Provings."  1863.
    A. H. Z., v. 67.
Arum triphyllum  in Scarlatina.  1868.  v. 2, p. 273.
A Survey of our Provings, arranged according  to  provers; an historical
    summary.  1845.  A. H. Z,v. 31.
A Survey of the entire Kingdom of Drugs.  1833.  St. Ar., v. 13.
A Warning Against the Parisian " Lachesis."  1863.  A. H. Z., v. 67.
A Way to Become Rulers of the Medical World.  1879.  Med. Couns., v. 1.
Badiaga, Remarks on.  1866.  H. M., v. 2.
Baunscheidtismus ; or, The Secret Discovered.  1858.  Zeit. fur Hom. Kl.
    v. 7.
British Repertory, A Criticism on the.  1859.   Am. Hom. Rev., v. 1.
Bromine.   1845.   St. Ar., v. 20.
Caladium Seguinum, A Proving.  1831.  St. Ar., v.  10.- 
117
Calcarea arsenicosa in Epilepsy, a note.  1849.  Brit. J. of H., v. 7.
Calcarea ostrearum., Case 168.  1868.  Hom. Clin., v. 2, p. 184.
Calcarea phosphorica, a resume"  of  provings and cures.  1871.  N. A. J.
    of H., v. 20.   History of Provings, H. M., v. 6.
Carbo vegetabilis, Note to  Case 244,  by Goullon.  1869.  Hom. Clin., v. 3.,
    p. 10.
Caries of Teeth, Therapeutic Hints.  1868.  Hom. Clin., v. 2., p. 186.
Cepa and Euphrasia, Comparison.   1869.  Hom. Clin., v. 3., p. 84.
Characteristics.  1867.  H. M., v. 3.
Characteristics, or Memory Cards.  Philadelphia, 1866-67.
Characteristics and  Therapeutic Hints.  1867.  Hom. Clin., v.'1.  1868.
    v. 2.
Chessmoves, A Reply to Roth's " Studies."  1863.  Hom. Viertjschft., v. 13.
Chlorine.   1845.   St. Ar., v. 20.
Cholera, So-called, on Board of English Ships.   1866.  A. H. Z., v. 73.
Cholera, Sulphur in.  1871.   A. H. Z., v. 83.
" Chronic Diseases,"  Preface to.  1845.  A. H. Z., v. 29.
Cistus Canadensis, Provings.  1866.  A. H.  Z., v. 72.
Citation-Visitation, Incidental to.  1845.  A. H. Z., v.  29.
Coca, Practical Remarks.  1869.  Hom. Clin., v. 3, p. 142.
Collections of Symptoms,  The Importance of complete.  1866.  A. H. Z.,
    v. 72.
Complementary Relations.  1868.   Hom.  Clin., v. 2, p. 210.
Complete Materia Medica.   1 vol.  Philadelphia, 1873.
Conciliatory Criticism upon  the Parisian Lachesis.   1863.  A. H. Z., v. 67.
Conium, Case 62.  1867.  Hom. Clin., v. 1,  p. 68.
Contagion and Miasm.  1833.  St. Ar.,  v. 13.
Correspondence.   1874.  H. M., v.  9.
Correspondence on Topics of the Time.   1879.   Med. Couns., v. 1.
Cough, Chronic,  Case 265,  Boenninghausen.  1868.  Hom. Clin., v. 2, p.
    271;  translation.
Critical Hodge-Podge.  1871.  A. H. Z., v. 82.
Critical Remarks on Dysentery.  1872.  H. M., v.  7.
Critical  Remarks on the  Scientific Communications on  Snake Poison.
    1861.  A. H. Z., v. 63.
Criticism  on Case 9,  Porrigo Decalvans. 1867.  Hom. Clin.,  v. 1, p. 14; on
    Cases 16 and 17, p. 19.
Cycles, Daily, in Diseases and Drug Effects.   1851.  N. A. J. of H., v. 1.
Desideratum,  the Great.  1871.  H. M., v. 7.
Diagnostics and Remedies, the Study of.   1831.  St. Ar., v. 10.
Diarrhoea, Chronic, Case 121.  1867.  Hom. Clin., v. 1, p. 123. 
118
Digitalis According to Baehr and Black's Monography.  1862.  Am. Hom.
    Rev., v. 3.
Digitalis in Menorrhagia.  1869.  Hom. Clin., v. 3, p. 59.
Diphtheria Cases.  1860.  Am. Hom. Rev., v. 2.
Disease Germs.   1872.   H. M., v. 8.
Domestic Physician.  1835.   First German edition, Jena, Fr. Fromman.
    English editions, Philadelphia, Boericke & Tafel.
Doppelmops in  Homoeopathy, No.  2, New Hatchels.  Leipzig,
    1860.
Dose, Repetition of.  1833.  St. Ar., v. 13.
Drugs, a Survey of the Entire Kingdom.  1833.  St. Ar., v. 13.
Drug Proving, a Collocation of Essentials  thereto.   1854.  A. H. Z., v. 47.
Drugs, Several, their Action on the AVell and Sick.  1834.   St. Ar., v. 14.
Drug Symptoms, Sifting the.   1865.  A. H. Z., v. 71;  Am. Hom. Rev.,
    v. 6 ; Brit. Jour, of Horn.,  v. 24.
Dysentery,  Critical Remarks on.  1872.  H. M., v. 7.
Eidherr, a Request for Information from.   1864.   A. H. Z., v. 68.
Elegy.  Satire.   Philadelphia, 1858.
Epilepsy, Calc. arsen. as a Remedy.   1849.  Brit. Jour, of Horn., v. 7.
Essentials to a Good Drug Proving.  1854.  A. H. Z., v. 47.
Euphrasia and Cepa, Comparison.  1869.   Hom. Clin., v. 3, p. 84.
Experiment and Hypothesis.   1833.  St. Ar., v. 13.
Extracts from Letters from Surinam.   1828.  St. Ar., v. 7.
Falsifying History, a Protest Against.   1853.  A. H. Z, v. 46.
Ferrum and Rhus rad. in Cough.  1869.  Hom. Clin., v. 3, p. 84.
" Flugblaetter" (Flying  Leaves), Novelettes.   Sondershausen, 1864.
Fluoric Acid., 1845.  St.  Ar.,  v. 20.
Fluoric Acid Cases. 1845.  St. Ar., v. 3.   New series.
Formica as a Remedy.  1871.   H. M.,  v.  6; A. H. Z., v. 82.
Formica, the Ant.   1871.  N. A. J. of H., v. 20.
Fragmentary Contributions to  Materia Medica and Therapeutics.   1851.
    N. A. J. ofH., v. 1.
Fragmentary Remarks on the Action of Several Drugs on  the Well and
    Sick.  1834.   St.  Ar., v. 14.
Fragmentary Remarks on Study of Remedies and Diagnostics.  1831.  St.
    Ar., v. 10.
Fragmentary Reports  of Symptoms.  1833.  St. Ar., v.  13.
Fungus Haematodes.  1830.  St. Ar., v. 9.
Future Investigations, a Guide to.  1833.   St. Ar., v. 13.
Gelsemium nitidum.  1862.  A. H. Z., v. 64 and 65,
Germs, Disease.  1872.  H. M., v. 8. 
119
Glonoine.   1849.  Quar. Hom. Jour., v. 1.
Golden Wedding in Philadelphia.   1865.  A. H. Z., v. 71.
Gross's Comparative Materia Medica.  Philadelphia, 1867.
Gross's Differential Diagnosis of Remedies.  1866.  A. H. Z., v. 72.
Guide to future Investigations.   1833.  St. Ar., v. 13.
Gymnocladus Canadensis, Proving.   1851.  N. A. J. of H., v. 1.
Hahnemann's Analysis of Stapf's Case, Translation with Comment.  1868.
    Hom. Clin., v. 2, p. 150.
Hahnemann and his Absurdities, Seven Notes on.  H. M., v. 7.
Hahnemann's Letter to Stapf on Fevers; translation.   1868.  Hom. Clin.,
    v. 2, p. 1S7.
Hahnemann in  the Cradle.  Philadelphia, 1855.
Hahnemann, The  Requisites to a Correct Estimate of.  1847.  Hygea, v. 22.
    1851.   N. A.  J. of H., v. 1.
Hahnemann's  Three  Rules Concerning the Rank of  Symptoms.  1865.
    H. M., v. 1.   1878.  Am. Hom. Rev., v. 2.
Hausmann's Book, The Lectures on.  1868.  A. H. Z., v. 77.  Announce-
    ment, 1867, Hom. Clin., v. 1, p. 83.
Headache after Diarrhoea, Case 440.  1869.  Hom. Clin., v. 3, p. 114.
Heart Affections, Spongia in.  1868.  A. H. Z., v. 76.   1867.  Hom. Clin.,
     v. 1,  p. 133.
Heaven for Homoeopathy.   Philadelphia, 1869. H. M., v. 5.
Hepar in Suppuration, Remark.  1869.  Hom. Clin , v. 3, p. 21.
Hepatic Enlargement, Case 307.  1869.   Hom. Clin., v. 3, p. 29.
High Dilutions, a Letter.   1847.  Brit. Jour, of Hom, v. 5.
High Potencies of Jenichen, Remarks on.   1845.  A. H. Z., v. 29.
Hints by  which to Form a Correct Estimate  of Hahnemann's Organon.
    1837.   St. Ar., vol. 1(5.
Homoeopathic College and other Chairs, No. 1 of New Hatchels.
    Leipzig, 1860.
Homoeopathic Hackels.  Jena.  1846.
Homoeopathy in Iceland.   1868.  A. H. Z., v. 78.
Homoeopathic Physicians, Annual Meeting.  1869.  A. H. Z., v. 79.
Homoeopathic Practitioner, What is Necessary  to  the Calling.  1832.
    St. Ar., v. 11.
Homoeopathic Preparations, A Proposed Plan for Exchange of.  1845.
    A. H. Z., v. 29.
Homoeopathic Tracts for the People.   Allentown, 1836.
Hoppe, A Reply to " Where is the Proof?" 1861.  Hom. Viertjschft., v. 12.
Houatt's Provings and their Self-styled Critics.  1870.   H. M., v.  6.
How to Treat Prevailing Diseases.  1873.  N. A. J. of H., v. 21. 
120
Hufeland's Latest Remarks on Homoeopathy and  its Founder, Fragmen-
    tary Observations.  1831.  St. Ar., v. 10.
Hydrophobia,  The Morbid Fear of.  1864.  A. H. Z., v. 68.  Am. Hom.
    Rev.,  v. 5.
Hypothesis and Experiment.  1833.  St. Ar., v. 13.
Iceland, Homoeopathy in.  1868.   A. H. Z., v. 78.
Influenza,  Epidemic.   1868.  Hom. Clin., v. 2, p. 248.
Incidental to Citation Visitation.   1845.   A. H. Z., v. 29.
Intermittent, Arnica in.   1868.  Hom. Clin., v. 2, p. 210.
Intermittent Fevers, Terebinthinse oleum, a remedy and preventive.  1877.
    N. A. J. of H., v. 26.
International Congress, Our Invitation to the.  1871.  A.  H. Z., v. 83.
Introduction to the American Translation of Jahr's Symptomatology. 1851.
    A. H. Z., v. 40.
Introduction to Jahr's  Manual.  Allentown,  1838.
Introductory of X. Y, on Taking the Chair as Professor of Homoe-
    opathy at the University of Strasburg.  Int. Hom. Press.  Leip-
    zig, 1873.
Jatropha Curcas.  1851.  N. A. J. of H., v. 1.
Jenichen's Potencies, Remarks on.   1845.  A. H. Z., v. 29.
Kleinert's Sources of Drug Provings, a review.  1863.  A. H. Z., v. 67.
Kobalt, An American Proving.  1866.  A. H. Z., v. 73.
Lachesis,  A Conciliatory Criticism upon the Parisian.   1863.  A.  H. Z.,
    v. 67.
Lachesis and Theridion,  1834. St. Ar., v. 14.
Lachesis, A Warning Against the Parisian.   1863.   A. H. Z., v. 67.
Langhammer and No End.  1864.   A. H. Z., v. 68.
Lecture Introductory to Course on Therapeutics.  1864.   A. H. Z, v. 71.
Leprosy, Homoeopathic Treatment of.  1830. St. Ar., v.  9.
Leprosy, the Relation of Antipsorics.  1831. St. Ar., v.  10.
Lithium carbonicum,  Provings.   1863.   Hom. Viertjschft., v. 14.  Am.
    Hom. Rev., v. 4.
Lobelia coerulea, Provings. 1871.  H. M., v. 6.
Malarial Fevers, Terebinthinse oleum as  a Remedy and  Preventive in.
    1877.  N. A. J. of H., v. 26.
Marginal Notes to the Materia Medica.   1845.  St. Ar., v. 3.  New series.
Materia Medica, a Natural Science.  Preparatory work.   1852. Zeit. fiir
    Hom. KL, v. 1.
Materia Medica, Marginal Notes to.  1845.  St. Ar., v. 3.  New Series.
Materia Medica, As a Natural Science. 1853.  N. A. J. of H., v. 3.
Materia Medica, The New.  1865.  A. H. Z., v. 71. 
121
Materia Medica, Our.  1865.  Am. Hom. Rev., v. 6.
Materia Medica and Pathology.   1853.  N. A. J. of H., v. 3.
Materia Medica, Review.  1867.  Hom. Clin., v. 1, p. 11; Remarks, v. 1,
     p. 34.
Materia Medica, the Pathologizing of.   1854.  A. H.  Z., v. 47.
Materia  Medica, a  Proposed Complete.  1864.  A.  H. Z., v. 69.  Am.
     Hom. Rev., v. 5.
Materia Medica, The Superficial  and the Vital in Our.   1864.  A. H. Z.,
     v. 69.
Materia Medica, a Few Well-meant Words to Beginners.  1864.   A. H. Z.,
     v. 71.
Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Fragmentary Contributions to.  1851.
     N. A. J. of H.,  v. 1.
Mathematical Certainty.   1875.   N.  A. J. of H., v. 24.
Menorrhagia, Digitalis in.  1869.  Hom. Clin., v. 3, p. 59.
Miasm and Contagion.  1833.  St. Ar., v. 13.
Midwifery in America.  1867.  A. H. Z., v. 75.
Misrepresentations, Wilful.  1866.   A. H. Z., v.  73.
Moss and Mosquitoes.   Philadelphia, 1863.
Myrtus Communis.   1851.  N. A. J. of H., v. 1.
Newer Provings. 1845.  St. Ar., v. 20.
New Hatchels.  Leipzig,  I860.
Nosodes.  Part I, 1877, N. A. J. of  H., v. 26; Part II, 1878, v. 27.
Observations on Solar and  Lunar Influences and their Relation  to  our
     Materia  Medica.  1874.  H. M., v. 9.
Obstetrics (Midwifery) in America.   1867.  A. H. Z.,  v. 75.
Offensive Odors from the Mouth  and  their Treatment.  1873.  H. M., v. 9.
On the Relationship of Plants.   1845.  A. H. Z., v.  29.
On the Repetition of the Dose.  1833.  St. Ar., v. 13.
Organon, Preface to the First American Edition. Allentown, 1836.
Organon, Preface to the Third American Edition.  Philadelphia, 1849.
Organon, Preface to the Fourth American Edition.   Philadelphia, 1860.
Organon, Hints by which to Form a Correct Estimate.  1837. St. Ar., v. 16.
Organon, a Protest Against Lutze's Publication.  1865.  A. H. Z., v. 71.
Organopathy ; or, The Last Events of. 1867.  Philadelphia, 1868.
Origin of the Theory of  Primary and Secondary Symptoms.   1879.  N.
    A. J. of  H., v. 27.
Our Invitation to the International Congress.   1871.   A. H. Z.,  v. 83.
Our Materia  Medica.  1865.  Am. Hom. Rev., v. 6.
Our Nosodes.  Part  I, 1877, N. A. J. of H., v. 26;  Part II, 1878, v. 27.
Our Success.   1866.  A. H. Z., v. 73. 
122
Palladium.  1878.  N. A. J. of H., v. 27.
Pathogenesis and Patho-exodus.   1833.  St. Ar., v. 13.
Pathological Anatomy Viewed from its Useless Side. 1845. A. H. Z., v. 29.
Pathology and the Materia Medica.  1853.  N. A. J. of H., v. 3.
Pathological Presumption, an Example  of.  1865.  A. H. Z., v. 71.
Pathologists and Therapeuticians, Remarks on their Dispute. 1831.  St. Ar.,
    v. 10.
Potencies of Jenichen, Remarks on.  1845.  A. H. Z., v. 29.
Practical Remarks.  1867-69.  Hom. Clin.,  v. 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Practitioner, Successful Homoeopathic; What is  Necessary to the Calling.
    1832.   St. Ar., v. 11.
Preface to the First American Edition of Hahnemann's Organon.
    Allentown, 1836.
Preface to the Third American Edition of Hahnemann's Organon.
    Philadelphia, 1849.
Preface to the  Fourth American  Edition  of Hahnemann's Or-
    ganon.  Philadelphia, 1860.
Preface  to  English Translation of " Chronic Diseases."   1845.  A. H. Z.,
    v. 29.
Preparatory Attempt as a Guide to Future Investigation.  1833.  St. Ar.,
    v. 13.
Prevailing Diseases, How to Treat.  1873.  N. A. J. of H., v. 21.
Primary and Secondary Symptoms.  1876.  N. A. J. of H., v. 25.
Primary and Secondary  Symptoms, Origin  of the Theory of.  1879.  N.
    A. J. of H., v. 27.
Provings of Lithium carbonicum.  1863.   Hom. Viertjschft, v. 14; Am.
    Hom. Rev., v. 4.
Provings, Newer.   1845.  St Ar., v. 20.
Provings, a Survey Arranged According to Provers.  1845. A. H. Z., v. 31.
Psorinum and its Chemical Rescue.  1852.  A. H. Z., v. 43 ; N. A. J. of H.,
    v. 2.
Psorinum, Remarks.  1833.  St. Ar., v.  13.
Rank of Symptoms, Hahnemann's Three Rules.  1865.  H. M., v. 1.  1878.
    Am. Horn., v. 2.
Relations, Complementary.  1867.  Hom. Clin., v. 2, p. 210.
Relationship of Plants.  1845.  A. H. Z.,  v. 29.
Remarks on Badiaga.  1866.  H. M., v. 2.
Remarks on Jenichen's High Potencies.  1845.  A. H. Z., v. 29.
Remarks, Practical.  1867.  Hom. Clin., v. 1, p.  117.
Remedies and Diagnostics,  the Study of.  1831.  St. Ar., v. 10.
Reminiscences of Scarlet Fever Epidemics.  1845.  A. H. Z., v. 29. 
123
 Repertory, a Plea for a More Complete One.  1831.   St. Ar., v. 10.
 Requisites to a Correct Estimate of Hahnemann. 1851. N. A. J. of H., v. 1.
 Rhododendron and Rhus, Diagnostic  Remarks.  1868.  Hom. Clin., v. 2,
     p. 247.
 Rhus rad. and Ferrum in Cough.  1869.  Hom. Clin., v. 3, p. 84; Hom.
     Viertjschft., v.  14.
 Roth's Studies, a Reply.   1863.  Hom. Viertjschft., v. 14.
 Rules, Hahnemann's, Concerning Rank of Symptoms.  1865.  H. M., v. 1.
     1878.  Am. Horn., v. 2.
 Rule and Rules Again.   1865.  H. M., v. 1.
 Rules of Sides.  1865.  H. M., v. 1.   1878.  Am. Horn., v. 2.
 Sanguinaria.  1845.   St. Ar., v. 20.
 Scarlatina, Comments on Case 227.   1868.   Hom. Clin., v. 2, p. 238.
 Scarlatina, Comments on Case 293.   1869.   Hom. Clin , v. 3, p. 19.
 Scarlatina, Arum triphyllum Cases.  1868.  Hom. Clin.,  v.  2, p. 273.
 Scarlet Fever Epidemics, Reminiscences.   1845.  A. H. Z., v. 29.
 Scirrhus of Tongue, Cases.   1868.  Hom. Clin., v. 2, p. 239.
 Selenium, Fragmentary Proving.  1832.  St. Ar., v. 12.
 Seven Characteristics of Hahnemann's Method of Cure.  Tract.
     Allentown, 1836.
 Seven Notes on Hahnemann and His " Absurdities."   1872.   H. M., v. 7.
 Shibboleth, to What Purpose.  1862.   Hom. Viertjschft.,  v.  13.
 Sides, The Rules of.   1865.  H. M., v. 1.   1878.  Am. Horn., v. 2.
 Sifting the  Drug Symptoms.   1865.  A. H. Z., v.  71.  Am. Hom. Rev.
     v. 6.  Brit. Jour, of Horn., v. 24.
 Silicea after Vaccination.  1872.  H. M.,  v. 7.
 "Similar," What Do You Mean By It. 1834.  St. Ar., v. 14.
 Similar, What is. 1845.  St. Ar., v. 20.
 Skepticism.  Tract.   Allentown, 1836.
 Skirmishes on our Eastern Coast.  1868.  A. H. Z., v. 77.
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IN MEMORIAM. 
 
IN  MEMORIAM.
   MEETING  OF  PHILADELPHIA PHYSICIANS.

  A T a meeting of the homoeopathic physicians of Phil-
   *-   adelphia, held at the Hahnemann Medical College,
 1105  Filbert street, on Sunday afternoon, July 25th, 1880,
 at five o'clock, to take action on the sudden demise of Dr.
 Constantine Hering, Dr. John K. Lee was called  to  the
 chair, and on motion, Dr. H. N. Guernsey was appointed
 secretary.
   The chairman, having called the meeting to order, re-
 quested Dr. Lippe  to state the object of the meeting.  Dr.
 Lippe then spoke as follows :

 Mr. Chairman, and Fellow-Members of the Profession:—
  The sad event that has called us together on this occasion is
 the unexpected and sudden death of our old and venerable col-
 league, Constantine Hering.  Before I offer for your kind con-
 sideration and approval, a series of resolutions drawn up for this
 occasion, permit me to express my sentiments, and no doubt the
 sentiment* of all those who have known our departed colleague
 best.   Dr. Constantine Hering deservedly and undisputably was
 considered the father of the homoeopathic school of  medicine in
 the United States.  It is now almost half a century since he came
 here, attracted by the institutions of the  Republic, and here he
 remained to enjoy for himself and to see his chosen school of
 medicine enjoy the fruits of a Republican form of government.
 Even at that early day the name of Constantine Hering was well
known all the world over, his contributions to homoeopathic lit-
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erature beginning in the "Archives," secured him an honorable
place among  the foremost standard-bearers  of the law  of cure.
Fifty years have  passed by since this scientist made  his first ob-
servations on  the sick-making properties of the poison of Lachesis
trigonocephalus, and this observation and  the deductions drawn
from them as to its health-restoring properties, would alone have
made him what he was—a  shining light among medical men.
The beginning of a great work was then made, and soon we find
him giving us the first works on Homoeopathy in the English lan-
guage, while engaged in teaching the  new healing art at Allen-
town in this State.  Later we find him  publishing his " Domes-
tic Physician "  as a text-book for those who could not  avail them-
selves of the assistance of the then few homoeopathic practitioners,
a work which was translated into almost all languages ;  we find him
a large contributor to the homoeopathic journals, and especially
defending the teachings of Hahnemann, protesting against mul-
tiplying departures from the methods of the Master.  Notwith-
standing his  increasing  professional duties, we  find  him contin-
ually adding  to the Homoeopathic Materia Medica ;  his numer-
ous monographs on old and  new remedies being an  heirloom to
posterity, so that this worker shall never be forgotten.   We find
him teaching the principles and practices of the new school in
private  and in public.   The caller on  him who earnestly desired
to learn, found  him ever ready to give the wished-for information;
we find his enthusiasm not diminished as he became older, his fidel-
ity to our  principles was as firm as were the enthusiastic hopes he
entertained for the perpetuation of our school of medicine. Always
ready to advance the true interests of Homoeopathy, he took es-
pecial pleasure  in guiding the younger members of the profession,
by explaining to them the great results obtainable for the cure of
the sick by following strictly, honestly and persistently the rules
and directions to be  found in the  methods of Hahnemann.
  As an individual  who has known our departed colleague for
more than forty years, who profited by his kind instructions and
example,  who  with  him, as one of the early pioneers,  saw the 
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almost miraculous  growth of our  school of medicine,  I can only
faintly express the grief felt when so noble and  so self-sacrificing
a member of our school  is removed from among us.   His works
will live after him  ;  coming generations will profit  by them, and
like the present will honor his memory.

   Dr. Lippe then offered the following preamble and res-
olutions :
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   Before  putting  the question  on these resolutions, the
chair called for an expression of sentiment on the part of
those present.  After a short  pause, Dr. 0. B. Gause was
named and spoke as follows:

  I am sure the reluctance which is apparent here is only ap-
parent.   I have no doubt the majority of the persons in the room
have that in their hearts and minds which they would like to say
on this sad occasion.
  I myself had not as intimate an acquaintance with Dr. Hering
as many who are here, but I was  frequently with him during
several years, in connection with my college duties, and  wTas fre-
quently at his house enjoying  his  courtesies, and I am  here to
testify that I always found him  an exceedingly generous man, an 
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earnest man, and a wise man in the matter of medical education ;
and if I were to talk a long time I could not say more than to
testify this much to the ability, and  earnestness, and wisdom of
the great man I was glad to call my friend.


   Dr. John C. Morgan then being called  upon addressed
the chair, as follows:

   It is honorable to mankind that we love to praise the dead.
But it is no ordinary eulogy that we  pass upon him of whom we
speak  to-day.  A personal friend has been torn from  us; our
most  venerable  leader  has departed.  Nestor no  longer lives.
How shall we fitly recount his worth ?  And where begin ?  The
magnanimous generosity of Dr. Hering to his colleagues  and pu-
pils in this city ought not to be unrecorded.  In one respect he
was lavish—exceeding anything I ever saw.  One has well said:
"A man  of such abundant literary productiveness, and  of such
great usefulness to the profession, and to the interests of Homoeo-
pathy, could not  have found much time for making money by
practice."  A large and select practice he always had;  and he
acquired a  modest competency; only that.  But I confidently
venture the assertion, that  no homoeopathic physician ever en-
joyed intimacy with him, but  he has been not only deeply in-
structed,  but also more than once  or twice  surprised  by his
transfer to him of valuable cases, and of  excellent families, who
had applied to him. The practitioners of surgery and midwifery,
especially, have reason to remember  the unexampled friendship
of Dr. Hering.   Unflinching in devotion to law and principle;
merciless, possibly, in  denouncing license under the law of our
art; upright and  downright in his consistency; successful in his
practice; classic in his  teaching; to these traits  he added the
humanities which to-day bind to his memory that innumerable
host, who, in all  ways,  are the better and the happier  for his
living; and above all, that phalanx  of  true workers who oft- 
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times filled their exhausted  pitchers from his never-failing foun-
tain of knowledge and encouragement.
  I thought this morning of that unfinished work, " The Guiding
Symptoms ; " who will take  it up ?   Who will take up any of the
work he has been doing?  Upon whom shall his mantle fall ? May
wre not pray that his mantle may fall upon all of us, and shall we
not all take up the work upon which he has so nobly spent his
life?
  I must refer for a moment to another aspect of the subject—
must allude to the life-long hostility  of  some who are to-day
reaping where he has sowed. For many years I myself was kept
aloof from him, whilst practicing Homoeopathy, by the assertion
of some who professed to know him, that  he was dogmatic, like
his master Hahnemann;  that  he was visionary, like his master
Hahnemann; that he was unreliable and ultra, like his master
Hahnemann.  Great, then, was my surprise when I came  to
know him for myself.
  I thank  Providence that I have lived  long  enough to learn
better  of him  and of his  master  Hahnemann.   I have  ever
found Dr. Hering most pliable to the force of sound reason, and
thus ever open  to conviction.   I have  never met a man  so will-
ing to take suggestions from juniors as  was Dr. Hering.  I never
met a man so  humbly a learner from  all  sources; never met  a
man in the homoeopathic ranks who was so completely en rapport
with all the departments of modern science.
  Were  there  new discoveries made, who was  so  eager  to
grasp them  as Dr. Hering? When the spectroscope was intro-
duced, who knew it so soon and so well as Dr.  Hering?  When
Hausmann, the homoeopathic  professor  in the  University  of
Pesth,  Hungary, published his great  work, showing, from  the
homoeopathic standpoint, the parallel lines of evolution of both
organic beings  and their  inorganic pabulum—when, I say, that
great book, hardly understood to this day in Europe or America,
appeared, who introduced it?  Who, of all the homoeopathic pro-
fession, took up that book and  interpreted it to the profession ? 
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Who, but Dr. Hering?   In all these things Dr. Hering has been
found  in the very front rank of medical and collateral science;
and I  wish to give this testimony as one somewhat intimate with
him.   He was as far from being the dogmatic  extremist—the
visionary symptomist—he has been represented, as was possible;
nay, who does not admit, now, that he was in the very front rank
of the  medical men of our day ?
   Dr.  Hering's influence as a teacher in Homoeopathy is to-day
felt everywhere.  An incident will illustrate it.   A very success-
ful physician in Illinois, a graduate of the Philadelphia college,
said to me that while a student he attended Dr. Hering's private
lectures also—and added,  " I studied general  medicine  from a
homoeopathic standpoint in  the college; but  I  really learned
Homoeopathy from Dr. Hering, in that back office of his."
   Dr.  Hering was not only, however, a teacher of men.  He
humbled himself in an  unusual way.   His love,  I may say
reverence for children, was  characteristic  and unique.  The sim-
plicity of his own heart found its counterpart  in them.  When
the Homoeopathic Hospital Fair was  organized  in 1869, he  in-
sisted  that a prominent place must be assigned to a  " Children's
Table," asserting  that  no  good  would come of the enterprise
were the children left out.  He poetically said that they, having
lately arrived from heaven, have the angels still with them ; and
that they are ever nearer heaven than their elders.
   He  had  convictions—strong convictions,  why  not? And  he
felt that he had a mission in life!
   It has been said, "whosoever wishes to live  in this world in
comfort and in quiet let him beware of  a man with a mission."
That is a true saying.  Let a man who wishes to be at his ease
keep at a respectful distance  from  a man with a mission.  Dr.
Hering was  such a man.  He was alive to the questions mooted,
and particularly to the recent  departures  from first principles by
some in the homoeopathic rank.  He had the convictions that  he
should resist them to the utmost.  He believed in his own mis-
sion.   Only a few weeks ago he said to  me, referring to recent 
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departures from fundamental Homoeopathy, and his purpose to
defend it, "The Lord has kept me alive for that."   A man with
such a conviction of his mission and of the divine origin of it,
and with such a knowledge of his subject, might be expected to
appear dogmatic.  Coming in contact with generation after gen-
eration of dogmatic tyros, let us rather say, such a man could
not be expected to pause in his great life-work, to come down on
demand, and wipe away all the cobwebs woven by their inexpe-
rience with a gentle hand.  Dr. Hering has been among  us as a
teacher!  Let us then revere, for their great worth, his teachings,
as we all do revere his memory !

   Dr. Augustus Korndosrfer  then  rose, and spoke  as
follows:

   I scarcely know how to  express myself on  this  occasion.   In
fact, I had thought that I should say nothing, as being truly
unfitted to express the depth of my feelings, at the death of our
old friend, Dr. Hering.
   I have been intimately connected with him  during a decade.
From the first of my acquaintance I felt  that  he was my friend.
He had a firm and an abiding friendship, and even  at times when
it seemed as though he were not the friend that you thought him,
it was that he might do you good.
   I would like, in addition  to what has been said, however, to
speak more fully of his great friendship to the young practitioner.
His knowledge, his labors,  his wondrous store of information, we
all of us know;  but not all knew how uniformly kind he was to
the beginner  in medicine.  Hours were all as minutes to him,
if he  might help the young men, and  the  labor was pleasure to
him, if he  could  render assistance to them.  I well  remember
during the early days of my  acquaintance with him how utterly
he abhorred the idea of keeping a secret from the profession ; how
earnestly he insisted on every member of the  profession making
known, in season and out of season, every fact which might tend 
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to the healing of the sick, or rendering assistance in the slightest
degree to the suffering.  It is  this phase of his character which
has attracted me more than any other, for he showed it so freely
during so many years.
   In regard to his work, it has been said by some, as intimated
by Dr. Morgan, that his work  was unreliable because  dogmatic.
I can only say, that the man who says that, utters what he knows
to be worse than a falsehood.  It is infamous!  Dr. Hering never
put his pen to paper except where he had the  fullest authority
for the truthfulness of what he wrote.  Every word  and line he
wrote bore not only the evidence of having been taken from some
authority, but of being from his  own authority, because  he ac-
cepted the dictum of no  man.  He received as an authority no
one, save that that authority could be verified.
   It has been said by some that he made notes and  memoranda
of the most ridiculous experiences of physicians ; but, as the doctor
remarked to me in reference to this thing, "Yes, I do take notes
of everything ; a very great deal of it I only find fit for the waste
basket; but I take notes.   There  may be some truth in it, which
the future only will reveal." This exactness, this exactitude, this
slow work, was simply the result of the over-carefulness that char-
acterized him—his perfect  desire  to  give everything in its most
perfect shape to the profession.   This I  learned from intimate
acquaintance with  him.
   He  lived in faith ; in faith  in  Homoeopathy and the mission,
the divine mission, he was called to fulfill.  And he left it almost
fulfilled.  He left  it with the conviction that he could now leave
it where it could be finished by other  hands.  He said to me only
a short time ago that we had men  left in the ranks who could go   ,
on and finish now  what he, for want of time, could not complete.
   There is not one here but feels his loss, and will continue to feel
that a good, earnest, true man has been called from our midst.

   Before resuming his  seat,  Dr. Korndoerfer  made  an
apology  for the  absence  of Dr.  E. A.  Farrington, who, 
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owing to  sickness  in his own  family, was  detained  at
home; but who desired the speaker to express his regret
at being absent, and his sympathy with the family of Dr.
Hering.
  The chair then  called  upon Dr.  Bigler to relate the
circumstances of Dr.  Hering's decease.  Dr. Bigler there-
upon said:

  I was not present at the time of the death, but was in the house
a few moments after.  I can  only tell what I learned  from my
father-in-law, Dr. Koch, who was called in.  When he arrived Dr.
Hering was already dying ; his hands and wrists were cold, though
he was perfectly conscious.   He was  restless, and  moved from
side  to side of his couch, suffering  greatly from dyspnoea, and
breathed  his last very soon, before Dr. Raue, who was  Dr. Her-
ing's regular attendant,  came  in.
  I was present at the post-mortem and took notes for Dr. Thomas,
who  could  not be here  to-day;  but I will presently  read the
results of the examination.  The doctor before his death seemed
to be entirely well.  The whole trouble did not seem to last more
than half an hour from the time he was seized to the time he died.
He had, according to his custom, taken tea with his family  in
the garden, and  after  an hour's spirited conversation went into
his  upper office—his  study.   At about  half-past nine o'clock
Mrs. Hering heard his  bell ring, and proceeding  to his room
found him in the condition I have described.

  The post-mortem was made by Dr. A. R. Thomas.  The
notes are as follows:

     POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION  BY A. R. THOMAS, M.D.
  The post-mortem examination was made at 12 o'clock m., on
Saturday, the 24th day of July, fourteen hours after death.  There 
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were present Drs. A. W. Koch, H. N. Guernsey, C. B. Knerr,
W. H. Bigler, J. C. Guernsey, C. Mohr, and C. M.  Thomas, of
Philadelphia ;  Dr. J. C. Burgher, of Pittsburg ; Dr. J. C. C. Hill,
of Mexico;  Mr. Herman Faber, the artist, Mr. A.  Oliver, the
embalmer, the undertaker, and assistant.
  The body was  found well developed and with  abundance of
adipose tissue.  The chest was remarkably full and large.
  Upon opening the cavities of the body the lungs were found to
remain fully distended,  no appreciable collapse taking  place.
Extensive adhesions of the right lung to the thoracic walls were
present, which were at first supposed to have interfered with the
collapse, but the removal of these was followed by no change in
the volume of the lungs.  Slight  adhesions  of the left  lung at
apex.  As the lungs were lifted from the thoracic cavity they were
found  extremely  light, Avith  very  slight hypostatic congestion
at  posterior portions, and in  a  condition of extreme vesicular
emphysema.
  The heart, moderate in size, presented a  large  deposit of fat
beneath its serous  covering,  about the base and along the course
of the  coronary arteries.   The cavities contained a small quantity
of uncoagulated blood.  The valves were normal, except a slight
thickening of  the  aortic semilunars.  The muscular walls were
firm and of good color.  The coronary arteries wrere distinctly
calcified.  The liver was  about normal in  size, yet considerably
congested, and presented a line of firm adhesion extending from
the anterior to the posterior border  to the right of the falciform
ligament.   The kidneys  were both slightly congested, the right
gland being smaller than the left.   The spleen, pancreas, stomach,
and bowels were  normal.   Large quantities of fat  were  found
within the omentum, mesentery and around the kidneys.
  No examination was  made  of  the  brain, it having been the
expressed wish of the  family that the head should not be opened.
It having been also the desire of the  family that the  body be
embalmed, the post-mortem was conducted in such a manner as to
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fluid might permeate all the tissues.   From the manner of death
and from post-mortem appearance, the cause of death was con-
sidered paralysis of the heart.

  At the request of the chair, Dr. J. C. Guernsey then read
the following communication from Dr. A. R. Thomas:

                                  Sunday, July 25th,  1880.
Dear Doctor:
  Having an urgent professional call to the country, one which
will  make it impossible  for me to  be  present at the meeting
called for this p. m., I desire to take  this method  of expressing
my full  sympathy with any action which may be taken with the
view  of doing honor to the memory of the  illustrious  and la-
mented deceased.
  While all will admit the wide influence of  the labors of Dr.
Hering  in the past, and the fact that this influence must extend
far into the coming future, what more  fitting  memorial of our
appreciation of his labors, on the part of the  profession, than a
united and vigorous  movement for securing what he has so long
labored  and prepared for, what this community and the country
have  reason to expect of Philadelphia—a permanently estab-
lished and large general hospital.
  During the life of Dr.  Hering, the ultimate purpose of  every
act or thought was the promotion of the one great aim of his life
—the development and dissemination of the principles of Homoe-
opathy.   No sacrifice of money, time, or rest, was too great when
required for this object, and now, that the largest and ripest fruit
of this labor may be gathered, there remains  a work for us to
perform, and one that should command  the united and hearty
co-operation of every member of the profession.
  Regretting that I am unable to join personally in the action of
the meeting, I am,             Very truly yours,
                                          A. R. Thomas. 
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  Dr. Pemberton Dudley then rose and said :

  I feel no words of ours can at all express what we feel at the
loss the profession and the world  has sustained in the death of
Dr. Hering.  I think and know7 that the homoeopathic profession
should feel to-day very much as  the passenger feels, away out
from the coast, when  the pilot takes  leave of the ship;  because
whatever may have been the perfection with which the  law un-
der which we labor was developed by  Hahnemann, it required
something more than Hahnemann to establish the art and princi-
ples of medicine under that  law throughout the world.  Hahne-
mann was a man of research, as Hering was, but Hering was a
man of different  mould; he was the man to establish the new
system in a new wTorld.
  The question is asked, who will take Dr. Hering's place ?  No-
body will take it!  The world does  not  need  another  Hering.
Homoeopathy does not need to be established  a second  time  in
America.  We no more need another Hering than wre need an-
other Newton, another Kepler, or another  Washington !  Homoe-
opathy is established now, and will go on doing universal good
throughout the civilized world.
  There were very  few men, perhaps  none, who could do the
work that he has done.  But  there  are other men, weaker per-
haps, who can take up the work where he  has left it.  I believe
there is a Providence watching over Homoeopathy; and I believe
we should take the death of Dr. Hering as an evidence that God
watches over our cause.  It will occur to all that the death of
Dr. Hering fell upon an anniversary—fifty-two years from the
day when Homoeopathy wras first introduced into the State; and
his funeral occurs upon another—fifty-two years  from  the day
when he first secured his " Lachesis."
  But we have other evidences that Homoeopathy is going right
on with  renewed vigor.  There is  a tendency in men to lean on
each other; and  in order to strengthen a man he must be made
to lean upon himself—to  strengthen the spinal column put a 
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weight on the shoulders.   I question whether we have not  been
leaning on him too much, and now that he is gone, whether we
will not feel that there is more resting on us; whether the rising
generation will not feel that  there  is  a burden resting on them
that their predecessors did not feel; whether, when we feel that
the death  of Dr. Hering has severed  a  link between us  and
Hahnemann—cut us loose from the  time when  there was no
Homoeopathy—it will  not give us a new impetus that will carry
us on  to victories still more glorious than those we have already
achieved ?

   Dr. Lee, the chairman, then said:

   It is hardly necessary for me to say  anything, after the liberal
expressions already made, of the high respect  I  have for the
memory of Dr.  Hering.  I  felt, when the  announcement  wTas
made  of his death, that truly  a great man had fallen.  But per-
haps,  as Dr. Dudley has said, it  may  produce a distribution of
labors which  may lead to good.  A superintending Providence
never leaves  a work  that needs its  protection ;  and I would
merely express the exhortation:  let us try and imitate the illus-
trious example set by Dr. Hering, who was willing to sacrifice
fortune, and reckless of all personal  interests to further the cause
of Homoeopathy.  If we all had his  enthusiasm, victory would be
far nearer than it seems.

   Responding  to a call, Dr. H. N. Guernsey said that he
concurred heartily and fully  in the preamble and resolu-
tions offered by Dr. Lippe.
   The question then being upon the adoption of the pre-
amble and resolutions, they were carried unanimously.
   Dr. Jos. C. Guernsey then read telegrams  from a num-
ber of physicians, in various  parts of the United States, 
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expressing the great loss the medical profession had sus-
tained in the death of Dr. Hering.
  The chairman then extended to the meeting an invita-
tion to be present at the funeral ceremonies, and said :'
" It is the desire of the family that this meeting shall des-
ignate the pall-bearers."
  On motion it was resolved  that these be appointed by
the chair, who then named the following gentlemen, being
friends of Dr. Hering, intimate with him in former as
well  as in late years:

                   pall bearers.
          Chas. G. Raue, M.D., Philadelphia.
          James Kitchen, M.D.,    "
          Ad. Lippe, M. D.,
          H.  N. Guernsey, M.D.,   "
          C. Xeidhard, M.D.,      "
          A. W. Koch, M.D.,
          A. R. Thomas, M.D.,
          J. H. Pulte, M.D., Cincinnati.
          W. Wesselhceft, M.D., Boston.
          F. R. McManis, M.D., Baltimore.
          H.  Detwiller, M.D., Easton.
          John Romig, M.D., Allentown.
          P. P. Wells, M.D., Brooklyn.
          Edw. Bayard, M.D., New York.
          John F. Gray, M.D.,
          Samuel Lilienthal, M.D., New York. 
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  Dr. J. C. Guernsey then moved the appointment of a
Memorial Committee, to  prepare a pamphlet containing
an account of the life and works of Dr. Hering.  He sug-
gested the following names:

             Dr. Ad. Lippe, Chairman.
             Dr. H. N.  Guernsey, Secretary.
             Dr. J. K. Lee, Philadelphia.
             Dr. Edw. Bayard, New York.
             Dr. Wm. Wesselhceft, Boston.

  Dr. Korndoerfer suggested the propriety of a memorial
meeting, to be held in  the near future, where all who
wished might give an expression of their sentiments, and
those who could not attend could write.  He then moved
that the committee named  be appointed a committee to
call such a meeting.  This motion was carried, as also an
additional motion to place the whole matter in charge
of the Memorial Committee, as named above.
  The meeting then adjourned. 
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     MEETING  OF  NEW YORK  PHYSICIANS.
   In consequence of the announcement of the sudden
demise of Dr. Constantine Hering, a number of his friends
met informally at the house of Dr. Alfred K. Hills, on
Sunday, July 25th, 1880, for the purpose of condolement,
and such other action as might be thought proper and
fitting to the occasion.
   There were present Drs. Bayard, Burdick, Finch, Bauer,
Hofmann, Wilder, Linsley, Cowl, St. Clair Smith, Berg-
haus,  Arthur  Hills,  Scherzer, Lippe, Wright,  Hartley,
Brown, Ostrom, B. G. Carleton, and Alfred K. Hills.  Let-
ters of regret  were  received  from Drs. Blumenthal, E.
Carleton, Jr., F.  J.  Nott, Deschere, W. H. White,  and
Doughty.
   Dr. Alfred K. Hills called the meeting to order, stated
its objects, and there being no  objection,  requested Dr.
Edwar'd Bayard to preside.   Upon motion, Dr. Hills was
elected secretary, and formally stating his reasons for the
action so hurriedly taken, moved that a committee of three
be appointed on resolutions, to which the president should
be added ; Drs. Finch, Burdick and Bauer  were  thus ap-
pointed.  The  following resolutions were  reported and
adopted:

  Whereas, The sad intelligence has reached us  that our revered
friend and colleague, Dr. Constantine  Hering, has passed from our
midst; therefore,
  Resolved, That we deeply lament that he could not have been
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spared  to finish the great work of his  life, the " Guiding Symp-
toms of our Materia Medica."
  Resolved, That in Dr. Hering's death we lose one acknowledged
as first  in his profession, a man of science, a ripe scholar, a genial
friend.
  Resolved, That to the afflicted relatives we extend our deepest
sympathy and regret.
  Resolved, That a copy of the minutes of this meeting be trans-
mitted  to the family of the deceased.
  Resolved, That delegates be appointed to attend the funeral.

  The  following  delegates  were  elected:  Drs.  Edward
Bayard, Alfred K. Hills,  S. P. Burdick, Chas. A.  Bacon,
W. I. Bauer, C. Lippe, L. deV. Wilder, St. Clair Smith, E.
F. Hofmann, Wm. Scherzer, H. A. Wright, C. E. Blumen-
thal, M. Deschere, W.  H. White,  H. I.  Ostrom,  W. Y.
Cowl,  Jas. E. Lilienthal, M. A. Brinkman, M. W. Noxon,
E. Carleton, Jr., John F.  Gray, R. McMurray, F.  Frank-
lin Smith, and B. G. Carleton.
  Adjourned.
            Attest—      Alfred K. Hills, Secretary. 
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  MEETING OF  THE PHYSICIANS OF BOSTON
                   AND VICINITY.

  The following resolutions were  unanimously adopted
at a meeting of the  homoeopathic physicians of Boston
and vicinity, on Monday, July 26th, 1880:

  Resolved, That in the death of Dr. Constantine Hering, of
Philadelphia, the medical profession has met with an irreparable
loss; that we recognize in him a marl of unusual scientific attain-
ments, accompanied with great power of original investigation,
one who devoted a  long and  busy life to the improvement of
medical science, and who, by indomitable energy and industry in
the advancement of Homoeopathy, has accomplished a  work in
this country and the world,  which shall ever redound  to his
honor.
  Resolved, That we extend to his family and friends our heart-
felt sympathy in the great loss they are called upon to bear.
                           I. T. Talbot,   ^ Committee
                           C. Wesselhceft, >     on
                           J. B. Bell,     ) Resolutions.
  M. P. Wheeler, Sec'y. 
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           THE FUNERAL SERVICES.
   The funeral rites were observed on the morning of July
 28th, 1880.
   A large number of the relatives and friends, including
 many homoeopathic physicians from other cities and the
 greater proportion of the profession of Philadelphia, as-
 sembled at the house, where the services were conducted
 by the Rev. S. S. Seward, pastor of the Swedenborgian
 church, of New York city.
   The remains were placed in  the rear parlor, and, ac-
 cording to  the  custom of the Swedenborgians, in which
 faith Dr. Hering was a believer, they were encased in a
 white cloth-covered casket and strewn with  flowers.  A
 number of floral tributes placed around the room testified
 the affection of friends and relatives, and the release from
 life and its cares was  looked  upon more as an occasion
 for joy rather than  sorrow, according to the articles of the
 Swedenborgian  faith.
   The services were opened by the singing of Dr. Hering's
 favorite hymn, "Befiehl du deine Wege," ("Let all thy
 works be guided by the law,") by a quartette choir.  The
 Rev. Chauncey Giles being  absent from  the city, Rev. S.
 S. Seward from New York then  delivered the following
 address:
  On the first of January, 1800, on Sunday morning, as the or-
ganist of a church in a far-away German village was seated at his
instrument, word Avas brought  to him that a son and heir had 
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 been born to his house.   Engaged as he was, he took the only
 means at hand to express his joy that a man-child had been born
 into the world, and burst out with the grand old  German hymn,
 " Give thanks to God."
   It is now nearly five days since that child, after a most  busy
 and active life, quietly breathed his  last on earth, in  an upper
 room in this house;  and if we may believe, as many of us do, the
 promise of the old prophet,

            "After two  days He will revive us;
            In the third day He will raise us up ;
            And we shall  live in His sight"—(Hosea  vi, 2),
 if we  may accept the later promise of our Saviour, who Him-
 self rose " on the third day," that whither He has  gone we shall
 follow Him  afterwards, then we may be sure  that long before
 this a far grander hymn has been heard in the spiritual world, in
 honor of the birth of a man into spiritual and eternal  life.
   It is a matter of exceeding regret  to me on this occasion, that
 I did not enjoy a personal acquaintance with our  departed  and
 beloved brother.   But such has been his busy and active life, since
 I have known him by reputation, both as a  physician and mem-
 ber of the church of his and my adoption, I  have always felt  that
 any advances in  that  direction would be improper on my part,
 and a return impossible on his.   I regret it, because it  is impos-
 sible for  me to speak with the same intelligence and warmth  that
 I could do if I had enjoyed more friendly relations with him, and
 more especially that most intimate and sacred relation which ob-
 tains between pastor and friend.
  It must be only evident to every candid and thinking man, that
 if we could understand the relation between this world and the
 next—if we could clearly and rationally perceive, in other words
 —why we are born first in this world, to live here  a  few short
 years, and then to be transported  by what we call  death to the
other world, there to live to eternity, it would go far both to con-
sole us for our own loss, and to remove our fears for our departed 
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friends.  Nor is the truth in this case far  distant.   Like every
other truth—like the great medical truth, to the promulgation
of which our dear brother devoted his life—it lies  at  our very
door.  The facts of the case suggest the solution of  the problem.
The facts are that we are born in this world, we die, and pass on
to the spiritual world.   The  very fact, therefore, that this life
precedes the other is prima facie evidence that it is  intended, in
some way, as a  preparation for the other, and that the death which
introduces to the latter is  but a necessary step in  the develop-
ment of our life.  But in order to understand the relations of this
life to the other, it is necessary to  know something of our rela-
tions to the Lord.  The Lord is the only source of love, or, what
is the same  thing, of life.  He  alone  has life in Himself.  All
other life, whether that  of angels or men, is derived from Him,
moment by  moment.  All  the life we enjoy to-day is  due to a
direct and constant influx from Him ; and if that influx should
be cut off we should cease to exist, as a ray of light ceases to exist
as soon as its connexion with the sun is interrupted.  But the
Lord not only gives  us life; He gives it to us in  such a manner
that it may be our life;  or, in other words, in such a manner that
we may receive and use it as if it were absolutely  our own.   For
this purpose He created us in  this world, on the  natural plane,
so far removed  from  His immediate presence that  we can receive
and enjoy the influx of life from Him, without being directly con-
scious of the infinite source from which it comes.   This could not
be the case in the other world.   Some of the angels,  we are told,
" behold His face."  They are all  near Him, so near that they
can at times perceive the influx of His love in  their hearts, as
we sometimes feel the effect of the sun's warmth in our  bodies.
Hence it was a part of the Divine economy from the beginning,
to create man in this world, where, in the enjoyment of perfect
freedom  and rationality, he could form a character of his own,
capable of receiving the influx of the Divine life  to all eternity ;
and  when this was accomplished, to transform him  to the other
world  by the gate of death.   This would  have been the case if 
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 sin had never entered into the world, and man had never fallen.
 The death that was brought into the world by sin, was the death,
 not of the body, but of the soul.   If the first race of men had not
 sinned they would have died as to the natural  body,  just as we
 do now; except that their lives would  have been peaceful  and
 free from hereditary taint, and their deaths quiet and pleasant,
 like one who lies down  to pleasant slumbers.   Now that this is
 the truth with regard to this life, we know  by experience.   We
 know, as a matter of theory, that we receive all the life we enjoy
 from the Lord, moment  by moment.  But we know, also, as a
 matter of fact, that we use our life as  if it were absolutely our
 own and self-derived ; and it is in view of this grand but simple
 truth that we  find the relation of this world to the other so often
 alluded to in the sacred scriptures.  " He that confesses me before
 men, him will I also confess before the angels in heaven ;  and he
 that  denieth  Me before men,  him will I also  deny before  My
 Father and the angels."   "He that is  faithful in that which is
 least,"—that is,  the  lesser things of this world, " is faithful also
 in much,"—that is, in the greater things of the other world ; "and
 he that is unjust in the least, is unjust  also in much."   And be-
 cause the Lord removes men far away, in the beginning of their
 immortal career, by creating them in the natural world, it is said,
 in the parable of the talents, that after he had given to one ten,
 to another five, and to another two, he " weut into a far country ; "
 and that afterwards, when he came to reckon with them, he said
 to those who had faithfully used the talents he had bestowed upon
 them, " Well done, thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been
 faithful over a few  things, I will make thee ruler over many
 things ; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."
   But we have not time to amplify the  subject, though it might
 be done to an almost unlimited extent; nor is it necessary.   Suffi-
 cient has been said to answer the purpose of this occasion.   For
if this doctrine is true, it teaches us that  death—I mean the death
of the body—is  a blessing, instead of a curse; that it was  not
brought into the world by sin, but would have taken place just 
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the same if man had never fallen ;  that it is not an interruption,
or partial defeat of the purposes of Divine providence, but an or-
derly step in the development of human life ; that it is not in any
sense a judgment upon man for his sins, but in the case of every
well-disposed person, the crown of his life, the door by which he
is admitted to his everlasting reward.
  It seems to me, dear friends,  that this simple thought affords us
especial consolation on  this occasion.  It teaches us, in the first
place, that  the great change which has come to our dear friend,
is not an end, nor even an interruption,  but rather an  enlarge-
ment of his immortal career; and such being the case, it leaves
us nothing to mourn in his behalf.   AVhen one of our children,
after long years of painful  study and preparation, graduates from
the university where he has matriculated, into the broader arena
of the world around him, we call the event the " commencement,"
and  not the end of his course, and instead of mourning over it,
celebrate the occasion with joyful ceremonies.  So it seems to us,
that now our dear departed brother has graduated from the world,
which is the seminary of heaven, into heaven itself, after a longer
and far more useful life, a fuller preparation than often falls to
the lot of man, it is an occasion of deep gratitude and thankful-
ness on his account, rather than of  sorrow or regret on ours.
  But this will appear the more patent to us if we will review
for a moment, in the light of  this truth, the busy life that has
now been ended.  To do this it will be necessary to glance for  a
moment at the work in which he has been engaged.   If I  may
speak as  a layman  of the system of medical practice of which he
was the foremost exponent, I do not hesitate to say that  it seems
to me one of the greatest blessings vouchsafed to the human  race,
even in this age of marvels. Indeed, I believe it stands second
to but one other—to the revelation of the doctrines of that church
of which our beloved brother was a member, and which, though
little known to the world as  such, are  nevertheless spreading
themselves throughout  the earth, and  modifying and  uplifting
every other system of religious truth of which we have any knowl- 
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edge.  Nay, I may run a little extravagant, but I believe that these
two discoveries are intended in the divine providence of the Lord to
go hand in hand;  the one to do on the natural plane, a work cor-
responding to that which the other is to do on the spiritual. For,
as I believe that the doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church con-
tain within themselves those traits which are capable of removing,
by slow degrees, the hereditary evils which have been accumulat-
ing for ages in the human soul, so it  seems to me that the great
law which lies at the foundation of homoeopathic practice, if faith-
fully applied, will gradually remove the hereditary tendency to
disease in the human  body; and thus that  the operation of both
taken together, will bring back to man, by a process necessarily
slow and  painful, but nevertheless sure and certain, the pristine
state of innocence and  purity he enjoyed in the beginning, and
restore the Paradise which man has lost by his evils.
  Now, in the work of establishing this system of medicine, Dr.
Constantine Hering took an early and prominent part.   He went
into it when it was little known, and  its practitioners few.in num-
ber, subjected to misunderstanding and contumely, and almost
social ostracism.  Next to Hahnemann himself he was its most
devoted exponent, especially in this country.  He consecrated all
his energies, not only  to the practice but to the teaching, and not
only to the teaching, but to the development of this system; and
left a name which, if not as widely known outside of professional
circles as  it deserved  to be, will be more known as the  years go
by.  The result is the most wonderful revolution in medical science
that the world has ever witnessed, the beneficent fruits  of which
it is impossible, as yet, to estimate.
  But I should do great injustice to the character of him, in honor
of whose memory we are gathered here to-day, if I should rest his
laurels upon the work  he accomplished.  It was not so much what
he did, as  the spirit in which he did it, that glorified  his career.
A man may accomplish more prodigious results than he did, and
yet not be a great man  in the true sense of the term.   But this
cannot be  said of Dr. Hering.   The  work he did, remarkable.as 
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it  was, was of little  importance in comparison with the high
principles he brought to bear in doing it.   It was the simple in-
tegrity—wholeness—of his character that  led him to give up the
old practice in the beginning.  The  same fidelity to truth led
him afterwards to turn his back upon kingly favors rather than
give up, even temporarily, his convictions.  And all through his
long and varied life, it was this lofty devotion to principle that
made him  true, not only to the system, but to the highest and
best interpretations of the system, and enabled  him to imbue,
with something of his  own faith, all those with whom he was
associated.   He lived  and labored for the  cause;  not for success,
nor popularity, nor even renown.  Never was priest or  mission-
ary more unselfishly devoted to a noble calling, than he  to main-
tenance of the great  idea of Homoeopathy.   Nor was  this due
merely to the honesty and earnestness  of his character.   It was
due more, perhaps, than he was conscious  of himself, to a deep
and strong religious faith; a faith, not merely in a Divine Being
or Power who  created and preserved the universe, but in a per-
sonal  and  loving God, who yearns over him  and all men, and
who loves nothing so much as to inspire them with lofty purposes
for the good of their fellow-men.
   But Dr.  Hering was not by any means  a one-sided man.  On
the contrary, his  affections went out in sympathy toward every
good cause.  He fulfilled all the duties of  life with something of
the same devotion he applied in his professional labors.   He was
a faithful and tender husband;  a kind and affectionate father; a
true and steadfast friend;  a lover of his country ; an earnest ad-
mirer of everything that was true in science and beautiful in art;
one of the most perfect and completely rounded characters which
it is our good fortune to meet in this world.
   And now, in conclusion, let us put  this and that  together—
what we have learned with  regard to the  relation of this life to
the other, with what we know of his character and aims.  If it is
true, as we have said, that this life is a preparation for the other,
then his preparation has  been more complete  than that of most 
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men.   His life has been a long and exceedingly active one.  He
has assumed and discharged all the responsibilities which usually
fall to men in this world.  In all  this he has been actuated  by
lofty and noble principles, and inspired by a firm and consistent
faith in the one God, the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.   And
now that death has come, it comes to him, not as  a dread de-
stroyer, but as a loving friend, to  introduce him  to his final  re-
ward.   In view of all these things, who is there of us here—who
among his professional associates, who among the  thousands who
have received healing at his hands, who even in  his immediate
family—who that would  call him  back again if  he could; who
that can find it in his heart to do anything but rejoice that his
long and active life has been crowned by such a quiet and peace-
ful death, and that he has at last entered upon the reward of his
earthly labors.  For  him the life that now is has subserved  its
purpose.  By the exercise, in noble undertakings  and for praise-
worthy purposes, of his great powers here, he has gained a spiritual
stature as robust and symmetrical as his physical stature was beau-
tiful and imposing; and now death has come, not to claim him as
his own, but to introduce him into the free, and joyous, and never-
ending exercise of those powers,  in the more immediate presence
of the Master, in the spiritual world.
   But this is not all.   Not only  does this line of thought, if true,
go far to remove our doubts and fears for our departed friends;
it affords ample consolation and  encouragement to those who are
left behind.  Far be it  from me  to choke one single  tear that
may be shed  upon this grave.  The natural affections—of  a wife
for a  husband, and a husband for his wife, of a  parent for  his
child  and a child for  his parent, and of a friend for a friend—
are right  and proper.  They were implanted in our hearts  by
the Lord Himself for a good purpose.  Without them this world
would be a wilderness, full of enmity and discord.  By means of
them we are  drawn together by indissoluble bonds, and the most
sacred and tender relations made possible.  It  cannot be ex-
pected that such affections can be overcome  in a  moment.  The 
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Lord Himself does not require it at our hands.  " He knoweth
our  frame;  He  remembereth  that we are dust."  Nevertheless
it should be our effort, even in the midst of our deepest sorrows,
to look up ;  not to seek consolation in forgetfulness, but to follow
our departed friends, in affection and thought, to the higher and
better world to which they have gone.  And it will help us to do
this to remember that this life is but a preparation for the other,
and  that every circumstance by which we are surrounded  here
is intended, if we will take the right advantage of  it, to conduce
to our happiness there.  Nor in the meantime, before we can join
our loved ones on the other side, need we give up  to despair.
That love for them, which made up so great a proportion of our
life, and which now seems as if it must die out of our hearts for
want of an object, need not cease its outward flow for a moment.
On the contrary we can love  them more and more unselfishly
now  than  we ever could before.  While they were yet with  us
there was  more or less of the  taint of selfishness in all that we
did for them, because it could  not fail to meet with at least the
reward of their  approval.  But  now  we can  do what we know
they  would have  us do, and be what we  know they would
desire us  to be,  without the  possibility  of any other reward
except such as  is to be found  in  doing good for its  own sake;
and  thus we can love them with a  purer and more spiritual
affection than while they were yet  present with  us  on earth.
Let us, therefore, try to find consolation  for our great bereave-
ment in these thoughts.  Let  us  no longer selfishly mourn for
our departed brother, knowing that the change which has come
to him is but an orderly step in the development of his life, and
that  his preparation for  it  has been all that our fondest  desires
could ask.  Let us not give up to doubt  and  despair,  but let  us
follow him in thought into that brighter world whither he has
gone.  Let the lesson of his life  reflect  a clearer  and stronger
light back upon our own, teaching 'us the meaning of that which
now is and the important bearing of the things which surround
us here upon our state hereafter.   In the meantime, let not our 
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love for him be choked in the slightest degree; but let it find a
fuller expression and exercise, if we are his professional friends,
in greater devotion to the cause he had at heart;  and if we be-
long to his immediate family, in realizing, as far as possible, his
tender wishes in our behalf.

  At  the conclusion  of Mr. Seward's address the  choir
sang a hymn composed by K. E.  Hering, a brother of the
deceased, entitled, " At the Grave,"  and at its close the
casket was  carried  by the, selected  pall-bearers  to the
hearse in waiting,  and then  conveyed to North Laurel
Hill Cemetery.  Here the  cortege was received by the
members of Concordia and Ssengerbund singing  socie-
ties, who united in singing hymns during the interment,
which was very impressive, scarcely a dry eye being seen
among  the numerous persons surrounding the place of
burial.
  As the dull thud of mother earth was heard, shutting
away from mortal sight the remains  of the departed, the
relatives and friends slowly and sadly wended their way
homeward,  feeling  bereft of as sincere a friend as ever
lived.   Drs. W. B. Trites, J.  C.  Guernsey, and C.  Mohr
remained until the grave had been filled, and after pay-
ing a last tribute of respect and affection, by placing  onv
the new-made grave the floral devices stricken hearts had
lovingly tendered, they too proceeded homeward, leaving
all that was  mortal of Constantine Hering to the watchful
eve of his Creator. 
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           MEMORIAL MEETINGS.

  The committee appointed at the meeting of the homoe-
opathic physicians held in Philadelphia on Sunday after-
noon, July 25th, 1880, met at the call of its  chairman,
Dr. Ad.  Lippe, and  resolved to  request the holding of
memorial  meetings  on Sunday  evening, October 10th,
1880, in  all cities of  the world where homoeopathic prac-
titioners are to be found.  Pursuant to this request, meet-
ings were held, but not all on the same day, that being
found impracticable.  The proceedings of these  several
meetings are here published in the chronological order
of their occurrence.
ONONDAGA COUNTY HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL
                    SOCIETY.
  A meeting of above named Society was held in Syra-
cuse, N. Y., August 3d, 1880, at which were present  Dr.
J.  R.  Long, President,  Dr.  C.  D.  Hale, Secretary, and
seventeen of its thirty members.
  The president, in a few appropriate remarks, announced
the decease of Dr. C. Hering, of Philadelphia.  On mo-
tion, the  president appointed a committee of three, con-
sisting of Drs. Harris, Jennings and Seward, to prepare
suitable resolutions in reference thereto.
  The  committee, in due course, reported the  following: 
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  Constantine Hering departed this life the 23d  of last month,
at his home  in  Philadelphia.   He has  fallen full  of years
and full of honors.  For more than fifty  years  his services to
Homoeopathy  have been so unremitting,  so  unselfish,  and so
eminent that it is  a duty to place a memorial to him  upon our
minutes.   Oschatz, in Saxony, has the honor of being  the place
of his birth, which occurred January 1st, 1800.  The University
of Leipsic Avas his Alma Mater.  Such was his  standing Avhile
yet an undergraduate that he  Avas selected to write a work
against the system of Hahnemann.  He entered upon his task
with  undoubting zeal, but his investigations  led him to adopt
the new faith.  March 27th, 1827, he received the degree of M. D.
from  the University  of Wurzburg.   His thesis Avas entitled
" De Medicina Futura."  In it he vindicated Homoeopathy " con
amore."  He  came to Philadelphia in 1833.  He assisted in
establishing the school at Allentown, Pa., and became  one of its
teachers.  It was the  first school  opened anyAvhere in  the inter-
ests of Homoeopathy.  In 1846  he took the chair of Materia
Medica in the first Homoeopathic College in Philadelphia.  He
was one of the originators of the  American Institute of Homoeo-
pathy, itself the oldest national  medical society in the United
States, and was chosen its first President.   He Avas a voluminous
author.  Many of his works have  been translated into foreign
languages, and their worth will ensure their survival.  The in-
dustry of the man is represented in his  study, three sides of
which from  floor to ceiling are lined with manuscripts from his
prolific pen.  Gifted  with intellectual strength and  with  rare
poAvers of discernment, he knew  how to gather and classify facts
and  formulate their  general laws.  His  varied and  accurate
learning,  his  tireless  industry, his genius for observation, and
his single-hearted devotion to medical science  fitted him to be
a master workman in our school.  He was its Coryphaeus.  His
death creates a large void Avhich  it will not be easy to fill.
   We join in the general grief over the heavy loss, and we ten-
der to the bereaved family our condolence  and sympathy. 
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  The report was adopted, and on motion it Avas resolved
to send to the family of deceased a notice of the action of
the Society, duly authenticated.
     HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY  OF
              NORTHERN NEW YORK.
  The Homoeopathic Medical  Society of Northern New
York met in annual session at Saratoga Springs, August
10th, 1880.  During  the  session,  Dr.  H.  M. Paine,  of
Albany, offered resolutions of respect  to the memory of
Dr. Constantine Hering.
  Dr. Gray, of New York, in  seconding the  resolutions,
spoke feelingly of the high  estimation in which the  de-
ceased was held, and of his great services in the depart-
ment of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.
  The resolutions were adopted as follows:

  Whereas, This Society has learned with  deep sorrow of the
decease of the  venerable Nestor  of medicine, Dr. Constantine
Hering, of Philadelphia ; therefore,
  Resolved, That in the death of  this veteran physician, one of
the  pioneers of Homoeopathy in this country, Ave have sustained
an irreparable loss; our school a Avise and influential leader, an
original thinker, a sagacious counsellor; and the public a prudent
and eminently successful practitioner.
  Resolved, That his untiring labors in the unexplored fields of
homoeopathic provings, and in his admirable tact and genius in
elucidating therefrom  an accurate  and  eminently  practical
system  of therapeutics,  comprise  voluminous contributions  to 
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standard  medical  literature of great practical  utility  to  the
medical profession.
  Resolved, That his genius, his intuitive perception, his inde-
fatigable  industry, his  poAvers  of analysis, inductive reasoning,
sound and logical discrimination, placed him in the foremost
rank of homoeopathic physicians.
  Resolved, That his noble qualities of mind, his  genial and
courteous manner, his ingenuous, child-like simplicity of charac-
ter, his readiness to draw  from his vast stores  of  medical re-
search Avhich he had long and patiently accumulated, endeared
him to the medical profession, and prompt us to hold his name
and memory in the most affectionate remembrance.
  Resolved, That Avhile Ave deeply mourn his  loss, Ave gratefully
revere his memory, and emulate his unselfish and life-long devo-
tion to the promotion of the best interests of humanity.
   MICHIGAN  COLLEGE  OF PHYSICIANS  AND
                      SURGEONS.
  A special meeting of  the College of Physicians  and
Surgeons of Michigan, called to take appropriate  action
upon the occasion of the death of Dr. Constantine Hering,
of Philadelphia, convened in Detroit, on the evening of
August  16th,  1880, a full quorum  of  members  being
present,  with Drs. E. R. Ellis and P. B. Morgan as visi-
tors.
  In the absence of the president, Dr. Wm. M. Bailey,
vice-president, occupied the chair.
  The recorder, Dr. J. G. Gilchrist,  stated  the  object of
the meeting and spoke in eulogy of the life and labors of
the great man whose  recent death had startled  the  pro-
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fession,  after which  a motion was  passed that  a com-
mittee be appointed to prepare suitable resolutions. Drs.
J. G. Gilchrist and P. B. Morgan were appointed.
   After  further remarks, many of the  speakers recalling
instances of personal  communion with Dr. Hering, the
following  preamble and  resolutions were unanimously
adopted.

  Whereas : This College has received the painful intelligence
that Dr. Constantine Hering has been called away from the scene
of his labors, in the hope of entering upon another and higher life;
and,
  Whereas : The officers and fellows of this College realize that
in his death the profession of medicine has lost one of its brightest
ornaments, and most earnest workers; therefore,
  Resola^ed : That Ave publicly express our keen appreciation of
the loss Ave have  sustained, in common Avith the whole profession.
  Resolved: That while Ave regret that his labors have been
terminated,  we recognize the  inestimable value,  and enduring
character of the  work he has been permitted to accomplish, and
left as a heritage  to us, his successors in the cause he loved so well.
  Resolved : That these resolutions and the accompanying pre-
amble, be spread upon the minutes of the College, and a copy
transmitted to the Memorial Committee in Philadelphia.
      BRITISH HOMOEOPATHIC CONGRESS.
  At the British Homoeopathic Congress, held at Leeds
in September, 1880, the following  resolution was duly
presented and unanimously passed:

  That this meeting of British homoeopathic practitioners has 
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heard with the deepest regret of the recent death of the vener-
able Constantine Hering, of Philadelphia; that they  desire  to
place upon record the strong sense they entertain  of the value
of the  services that Dr. Hering has rendered to the science of
medicine during the whole of his professional career, and of the
great zeal and energy he  has ever shown  in  the advancement,
development, and propagation  of  Homoeopathy;  that they  at
the same time desire to express their  sympathy with the mem-
bers of his family, his colleagues  in  the  Hahnemann  Medical
College, and  his professional brethren in Philadelphia, at the
loss they have sustained by his death.
           NEW YORK STATE SOCIETY.
  At the  semi-annual meeting of the  New York State
Homoeopathic Medical Society, held  at  Brooklyn, at the
afternoon  session,  Tuesday, September 7th,  1880,  Dr.
Samuel Lilienthal spoke as follows:

  I am sure  the Society will pardon me for interrupting its
proceedings at this time, for I have a matter to bring before it
which it seems  to me should receive attention to-day.  We all
knoAv that we have lately lost one  Avhom  Ave  called Father, Con-
stantine Hering, of Philadelphia. I think it is one of the greatest
losses Homoeopathy has  sustained  in this country, and I would
move that the president appoint a committee to draft suitable
resolutions in  relation to  the death  of Dr. Hering, the Father of
Homoeopathy in this country.

  The motion was carried, and  the  president appointed
as committee,  Drs. P. P. Wells,  of Brooklyn, and Samuel
Lilienthal, of  New York, with  instructions  to report at
the session on  Wednesday. 
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   At the session on Wednesday morning, Dr. P. P. Wells
spoke as follows:

   Mr. President:—Before proceeding to read Avhat I have Avritten,
it  Avill be, perhaps, but just to myself to say that I was taken alto-
gether by surprise last evening on receiving notice that I had been
appointed to prepare resolutions  commemorative of the death of
our colleague, Dr. Hering.   The time given in Avhich to arrange
my thoughts appropriately to so vast a subject and put them on
paper, Avas so  brief that it was exceedingly  embarrassing.  The
interest I have in the memory of that great man, and  the  many
years of intimacy I have had Avith him, forbade my declining to
attempt, as best I could, to present to you this morning the brief
preamble and resolutions Avhich I now read:
   In  Oschatz, in  Saxony, on January 1st, 1800, it pleased Al-
mighty  God to give  a  great  blessing to the world of science
and to the world of suffering in the birth of an infant, Avho after-
Avards became known to us as the man, Constantine Hering.  It
pleased  the same Almighty goodness to remove him from us by
death on the twenty-third  day of July,  1880.   In view of the
life and its labors Avhich filled the space between these  points of
time,  Ave resolve,
   1st. Gratitude  to  Him  who  gave  so  long life and so great
powers for good to our friend and brother, and that for so many
years He gave it to us to receive  inspiration  from  his great
knowledge and generous spirit, becoming to us our leader and
teacher, our father and friend, our  light in the art of healing,
and our example in his never-failing devotion to the cause and in-
terests of truth in all  the time  and circumstances through  Avhich
he passed.
   2d. Gratitude to the memory of him by Avhose labors we have
been so greatly enriched.
   3d. That in Hering, the  philosopher, we remember his vast
extent of knowledge, his vigorous  pursuit  and grasp of facts,
his ready appropriation of these and his facile tracing of the re- 
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lationship of new facts to old, and their sure reference to  their
proper place in the circle of facts knoAvn.
  4th. That in him, as a teacher, we remember his clear percep-
tion of facts, and of just those his pupil needed first to know, and
his  skill  in  imparting them  in the  manner and  sequence  best
adapted to meet these needs, and his heart-felt gladness in giving
from  his fulness to the Avants of all who Avould learn.   That he
never Avas weary of adding to the knoAVledge of others  from the
vast treasures he  had gathered  in  his long life of unexampled
activity.
  5th. As a physician, Ave remember his loyalty  to his convic-
tions of truth, and to the law of healing he  had accepted  from
the great master;  his clear perception of the facts of disease and
of the specification of the agencies he employed for its cure, and
his  never-failing or faltering endeavors to add to the number of
these, and that from  these endeavors have come  to us a knoAvl-
edge of many of our most precious remedies.
  6th. As an author, Ave remember the great number and excel-
lence of the productions of his pen, each bearing in clear charac-
ters the impress of the individuality and genius of the writer, the
whole making a series of unexampled extent, interest and value.
We remember these as abounding in compact thought, Avith facts
contributed to  our knowledge, with suggestions of relationships
of these  to  other  facts and to each other;  all so  luminous  Avith
the effulgence of genius, and so astonishing by reason of the  great
labors they  disclose.  We remember that it is to these labors the
literature of Homoeopathy is  indebted  for  more than half its
wealth.
  7th. As a man, we remember him as largely endowed by nature
Avith  the noblest  qualities; frank, generous, affectionate,  true,
noble in  his aspirations, loving the good and hating all that was
mean, he has left to us a memory to  Avhich  Ave can always recur
Avith pleasure and  profit.   As an embodiment of great knowledge
and learning, by his death he  impresses us Avith  a sense of our
great loss, and we  are constrained to feel and say we shall never
look on his like again. 
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   Dr. Samuel Lilienthal spoke as follows:

   Will you allow me, in seconding these resolutions, to say a few
Avords about our departed friend.  One thing Avhich endeared
him to all those who Avere acquainted with him was the great en-
couragement he always held out to the young.  There was no
difference  manifested in  him, no matter who it Was that came.
Any one who came to him poor Avent away rich.  Another thing
which I always admired so  much in  Constantine  Hering was,
that  you never heard him  say, " Homoeopathy Avill go down."
He knew, as one of the founders of Homoeopathy, that the legacy
Avas left in good hands, and I am pretty sure our young men Avill
take pride in folloAving such a good example as that which Con-
stantine Hering left them.  I remember on one occasion he said,
" I have no fears  for Homoeopathy; we shall mix  Avith  other
schools, and I am pretty sure that the other schools  Avill come to
us."   Dr. Hering died in harness.  At six  o'clock on the even-
ing of his death he made his  last prescription.  It was for a poor
German in broken health, who had been treated by the old school
Avithout any benefit; he examined  him and expressed  a doubt
whether he could be made a whole man again; but he said he
must  relieve him, so he  gave him a prescription. This  was
another beautiful trait in  his character, that he knew the  great
resources of the Materia Medica, and When others despaired he
was hopeful.  His memory should be sacred to us.   I hope the
resolutions, as  prepared by  Dr. AVells, will be accepted unani-
mously.

   The resolutions were adopted by a rising vote,  every
member of the Society rising.
        PENNSYLVANIA STATE SOCIETY.
  At the  annual  meeting of the  Homoeopathic Medical
Society of the State of Pennsylvania, held at Easton, Sep- 
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tember  8th  and  9th, 1880, the president, Dr. John  K.
Lee, concluded his address with the following words:

  As an  appendix to these desultory thoughts, I would ask your
permission to pay a brief tribute  to  our late colleague and co-
laborer, the illustrious Dr. Hering.  With natural ambition of
a high order, strengthened and developed by careful culture, he
in early  life, for the purpose of refutation,  applied himself to
the study of Homoeopathy, and as his logical mind advanced in
this investigation and he turned the clear light of reason upon
its alleged principles, and placed their  proofs in the crucible of
experience, the vigor of his prejudice relaxed and gave way to
convictions, and these convictions  gradually hardened  into firm
belief until, like Paul Avho went out with threatenings to perse-
cute the saints, he renounced his hostility and became the cham-
pion of a new medical faith.  Placing himself in communication
Avith Hahnemann,  he received  a  full  revelation of this great
truth and its corollaries, and imbued with the sentiments of  his
master and an ardent desire for their triumph, he sought an asy-
lum in the New AVorld, where, under the protecting aegis of our
free institutions, he could accomplish his mission without embar-
rassment or interference.
  Here, for nearly half a  century, Avith untiring industry  and
zeal, he prosecuted his researches,  and from the perennial foun-
tain of his pen  floAved  a  continuous stream  to fertilize the seed
he  had planted; and ere his great heart had ceased  its pulsa-
tions, his eyes were ravished  with  a view of the Avaving harvest
as a reAvard of his benevolent and  useful labors.
  Truly  a great man has fallen—great intellectually,  and great
in the simplicity and grandeur of his character, but greater still
in the possession of  those moral attributes which elevate man to
that exalted plane where he can abnegate himself and make all
personal  considerations subordinate to the higher and  holier  in-
terest of a common  brotherhood.  His last moments were a
fitting  climax  to his  distinguished labors, since  amid the un- 
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disturbed  repose  and endeared associations of his study,  sur-
rounded by his unpublished manuscripts and other evidences of
his unremitting toil, he at once ceased to Avrite and to live.
   He requires no marble shaft to preserve the reward of his life
or tell the story of his achievements,  for his  history is  the
warp and Avoof of  nearly every  page of our  literature;  his
memory  will  be cherished by thousands yet  unborn, and his
fame will only brighten by the lapse of time.  Whilst we may
not be able to receive the mantle that has fallen from his shoul-
ders, we can imitate the brilliant example of his devotion to the
cause he so  ably espoused; and ere  his lifeless form has faded
into  dust and the wintry winds wail their plaintive requiem over
his graATe, let us reneAV  our  vows of fidelity to Homoeopathy,
and  endeavor to  realize, as he eminently did,
   "He most lives who  thinks  most—feels the noblest—acts the
best."

   At the conclusion of the address, a  committee consist-
ing  of Drs. J. H. McClelland,  Aug.  Korndcerfer and  H.
Detwiller was appointed to  draft suitable resolutions of
respect, and in due time  the chairman of the committee
presented the following:

   The Homoeopathic Medical Society of  Pennsylvania, in  an-
nual session assembled, Avith unanimous voice adopts the follow-
ing minute:
   The death of Dr. Constantine Hering, of Philadelphia, on the
23d  day of July, 1880, is recognized as  an event of signal  im-
port  in the history of medicine. It marks the close of a life, re-
markable  for  unflagging and  long-sustained  industry  in  the
cause of medical science and in promoting the good .of his kind.
With full recognition of his prodigious labors in the field of
Materia Medica and Homoeopathic  Therapeutics, the attainments
of Dr. Hering in general science  and letters entitle him to  a
high place among men of learning  in this enlightened age. 
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  This  Society, therefore, records Avith Avilling hands its high
appreciation of the distinguished dead, and Avith sentiments of
high regard, offers heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family.

  By a rising vote the report was unanimously adopted.
NEW YORK COUNTY HOMCEOPATHIC  MEDICAL
                      SOCIETY.
  Pursuant to call a special meeting of the Homoeopathic
Medical  Society of the County of New York, convened
on the evening of October 7th, 1880, the president, Dr. W.
Hanford White, occupying the chair,  and Dr. Alfred K.
Hills acting as secretary.
  There were present, Drs. W. Hanford and J. R. White,
E. Bayard, S. Lilienthal, L. Hallock,  H.  D. Paine, T. F.
Allen, E. M.  Kellogg, H. M. Smith,  Jos. Finch, C.  Th.
Liebold, S. P. and  A. H.  Burdick,  H.  A. Wright, E.
Carleton, Jr., H. Von Musits,  G. S. Norton, M. Deschere,
E. A. Jennings,  M. Leal, J.  H. Demarest, M. C. Man,
John Butler,  J. W.  Dowling, C. Williams, W. Y. Cowl,
F. Oertel,  J.  A.  Carmichael,  J.  and  F.  Donavan,  and
Alfred K.  Hills.
  The president, after announcing briefly the object of
the meeting, called upon Dr.  E. Bayard,  who responded
as follows:
  If a great man is one to Avhom  God  has  gi\-en large gifts, and
who has cultivated them to the extent of his powers for the best
interests of his felloAV-beings, then Constantine Hering was a great 
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man.  He was not a money-getter.   His poAvers did not work in
the  direction  of accumulating property.  He did  not  care  to
amass this Avorld's goods; but he wanted to be rich in learning,
especially in all that pertained to his profession.
   He was  logical, discriminating, a great lover of nature, and a
close observer of her.  He was a hard student, of unwearied in-
dustry.  He " sought  Truth earnestly, and he found it."  He
made note of all his observations; hence he left behind him a
large amount of valuable Avriting.
   He Avas  engaged  at  the time of his death in a  great work, his
" Guiding  Symptoms," and Avould to God he had been permitted
to finish that work; but it was otherwise ordered.  I am told by
those who knew his habits, that every sentence  in that work was
studied over sometimes for hours, that  his true meaning might
be expressed.   That he might lose no time, his writing-desk and
materials Avere brought close to the side of his couch, so that he
could arise in  the night, light the lamp and  continue his Avork.
As for recreation and amusement, he kneAV little of either outside
of his profession.
   While a subject of the Saxon Government, he was commissioned
to make collections  as  a naturalist in Surinam, South America.
In the course of this study he found facts illustrating the truth
of Homoeopathy, and gave account  of  them  to a homoeopathic
journal in Germany.   His Government objected  to this w7ork  as
heterodox.  Dr. Hering thought  he ought not to be controlled
in any respect  in the service of scientific truth.  Upon  the in-
stant he resigned his commission and sought a free land, where
his thoughts or the expression of them for the advancement  of
his race would not be  controlled.  He  found  such freedom  in
this  country.
   This  showed his noble  independence of character,  and his
earnest search  and  love of Truth, which would not  permit  him
to weigh against her a social position  and a  money considera-
tion.  He sought this New World to Avork and ploAv the field the
providence of God assigned to him, Avith gifts to carry out fully 
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and nobly his Avork, ere he was called  aAvay to be set in the
heavens by the side of Hahnemann, Boenninghausen, Stapf and
Jahr—a galaxy  whose light  "will continue Avhen the things of
this earth and its monuments of brass  and stone have crumbled.
  Is it not Avise and right that Ave should look into the sheaves
of the rich harArest garnered by our late beloved colleague for
our OAvn instruction, and that Ave  should examine into the princi-
ples that governed him in the profession and practice to which he
devoted his  life, and  in which  he  stood out so eminently the
acknowledged leader?
  Dr.  Hering made this the essential point of doctrine and prac-
tice : to cure  the sick easily and permanently, by medicines capa-
ble of themseh'es of producing in a healthy person morbid symp-
toms similar  to those of the sick.  He  sought no other cure, nor
recognized it as one, unless it Avas under the  law proclaimed  by
Hahnemann.  He  sought no palliation, except under this law,
believing  that it hindered and endangered a perfect cure.   He
believed  that the morbid condition of tissues and organs are
the  result of the dynamic disturbance, and not the  cause of
the disease.  He Avas  therefore a Vitalist—believing  disease to
be  the disturbance of the vital  force, and its equalization the
state of health.  He believed that the  totality of symptoms, sub-
jective and objective, are  the only indications  for the choice of a
remedy.   He did not believe that prescribing on the pathological
states, nor diagnosis where the vital powers were tending to those
states,  Avere sufficient to effect a  cure.   The  symptoms  in  their
totality alone Avere the only guide for a cure to him.
  He believed that the only proper way to ascertain the disturb-
ing properties of medicine on the vital force is to prove them on
the healthy; that thereby only the  true  expression of that dis-
turbance can be observed.  And  he believed that in order to ob-
tain and secure the highest curative results,  medicines must be
administered singly and in a dose just  sufficient to cure, because
he kneAV that all action  is followed  by reaction (there is no ex-
ception to this laAv); that all action on  the vital powers is, by an 
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inherent law, folloAved sooner or later by reaction, which termi-
nates in cure and health.   Hence  an overdose must, by its in-
tensity of action, delay or prevent reaction and cure.
  I remember on a certain occasion, early in my practice, I told
Dr. Hering of my  suffering.  He asked me the remedy I had
taken, and seemed to think it well chosen.   He then asked the
dilution.  I told him the  third.   "Ah," said he, "you have
stopped it, but perhaps not made a cure."  He shook his head
and seemed disappointed.   He said no more; but he caused  me
to reflect that it might well be so—that I had throAvn an ob-
stacle before the diverted vital force—that I had stayed its for-
ward movement by  a shock that injured its reactive power—as a
boulder thrown before a carriage wheel  in  motion stops it, but
cripples the wheel.
  Dr. Hering believed that Avhen he produced the impression at
the right point, and in the right direction, the force must be per-
mitted to be exhausted ; therefore he Avaited.  Shorter or longer
the time, he Avaited, his eyes Avide open, and his observation on a
stretch, looking for that action which is to end in equalization.
  Dr. Constantine Hering was  a true Homceopathist.   He be-
lieved in Homoeopathy and lived up to it.   He believed that the
highest results in his art Avere  obtained by close individualization
alone, not by generalization.   I loved him for his simplicity and
directness of character; for his large, brilliant inquiry after truth,
and for his resting on principles derived from a patient examina-
tion  of facts.
  He enriched our Materia Medica by his severe labors.  I will
not name the many remedies he has proven, arranged and pub-
lished.  You knoAV them all.   The diligent student of our Ma-
teria Medica must have observed how full, exact and character-
istic were the  medicines  proved and  arranged by  Hahnemann.
Just  so were  the provings and  arrangements  by Dr.  Hering
equally clear, full, exact  and  characteristic.   He took his great
master, Hahnemann, as his model,  and we only hope that those
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Avritings Avill give them to us just as he set them doAvn.  Then
we shall feel that the seal of reliability is placed upon them.
  When some patient astronomer, Avho night after night has been
Avatching the  stars, brings to light some unknown  planet, to do
him honor the neAV-born world  is called after his name, and the
discoverer is never to be forgotten.   If the astronomer is Avorthy
of distinction, Avhat  shall Ave say of the. man Avho brings to light
a new remedial  agent to relieve suffering humanity, Avard off
death, and  bring  back  health?  He,  methinks,  has done a
greater Avork.   And so the  great discoverer of Lachesis will be
gratefully remembered by those Avho know how to apply  this
remedy in all its  varied forms,  for Avhich in the provings he suf-
fered ; and  his only suffering Avas from the seal  set by Lachesis,
from  Avhich he never  wholly recovered.   That suffering Avas a
croAvn of glory to him.
  Constantine Hering shoAved in his death his medical principles,
and shoAved  that  if the homoeopathic law, the law proclaimed by
Hahnemann, Avas followed, a  man  would live longer and  die
easier than  under any other practice; for he that  is filled Avith
disturbing drugs must die as the hunted fox, torn and rent by
the bloody mouths of a pack of hounds.  But he that follows the
practice of  our beloved colleague, will have  sleep  rather than
death.  The forces equalized, he has rest.   He  ceases to exist by
the Avithdrawal of his life by the Giver of life;  as some locomo-
tive running smoothly upon the track, after exhausting her fuel,
slows  down  and stops—not throAvn from the rails by broken ma-
chinery, and rushing to ruin with terrible violence.
  At  six o'clock  in the evening he made his last prescription to
a patient, observing to his Avife Avith great animation and interest,
that this patient had  been  prescribed for by many physicians,
and he believed  he  should help him.  Then he went,  as he Avas
accustomed, to take  his evening meal  with his family, which he
greatly enjoyed  in  that social  circle under an arbor in his  gar-
den.   At eight o'clock, the meal being over, Dr. Hering said he
Avould retire to his study and his couch.   His devoted Avife went 
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Avith him to aid him  in preparing for bed.   He said to her : " I
believe I shall sleep."  She left him to  his repose  At ten he
touched his  bell, Avhich summoned her at once to his side.   He
remarked that his breathing Avas embarrassed, accompanied by
constant yawning.  He asked her to  get a book in his office that
he might examine this symptom. She did as directed; but being
alarmed sent for a physician.  I believe  he selected  the remedy
and laid doAvn to sleep.  In a short time,  Avithout pain, without a
struggle, he passed into that sleep Avhich  knows no Avaking—and
the great physician  demonstrated  the benign, gentle, but  con-
trolling influence of  the action of the great  law to which he de-
voted his life.  Thus died Constantine Hering,  dear to Homoe-
opathy, and to be forever honored by its true practitioners.

   Dr. S. Lilienthal said :

   For the little that I  am, the little I  ever accomplished, the
little reputation I  have gained, I have to thank tAVO men, Avho
have gone home to do more precious work in higher spheres—I
mean Carroll Dunham and Constantine Hering.
   The day I made the personal acquaintance of Father Hering
will never be forgotten, as long as I  live.  In the beginning of
the year 1870 I had received an invitation from the faculty of the
Hahnemann College, in Philadelphia, to deliver a lecture during
the  preliminary course.   Our mutual friend, Dr. Raue, intro-
duced me to the Father of Homcepathy in America.  With that
even, cheerful smile on his face, he looked at me attentively, and
then, Avith a sonorous laugh, he addressed Raue, " I thought I
would see a  young man before  me, and noAV that hard-Avorking
Lilienthal is as grey  as I am."  I soon found myself at home, in
the full sense of the  Avord, in his company, and Avhen after that
lecture Ave met at Raue's house, to spend a few hours in convivial
conversation, Constantine Hering was the life of the whole  com-
pany.   It is just ten  years ago or, perhaps, eleven, when the firm
of Boericke  & Tafel  bought out Mr. Radde, in  New York, and 
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 they  seriously intended to give up the North American Journal
 of Homoeopathy.   Hering would not listen to it.  "There is your
 editor," he said, pointing to me, "and Ave must support him."  Rely-
 ing on this great support, not in words, but in deeds, I accepted
 the trust, and Hering has never disappointed  the readers  of the
 Quarterly.   In  fact, this was one of the great traits of this great
 and good man, that his Avord Avas  as  good as his bond,  and as
 number after number appeared for the last ten years, he kept on
 cheering to the last; and noAV that he has departed, I consider it
 my duty to collect from the old German literature the Avritings of
 our Father, and give them to you in that old Quarterly of mine.
   During the Centennial World's  Convention at Philadelphia,
 friend Raue Avas again my host, and one day, visiting Papa Her-
 ing, he requested me to invite some congenial  spirits  and meet
 that night quietly at Raue's.  Though it was the night of the big
 ball and it rained torrents, the old man came to 121 North Tenth
 street, according to promise, and I never can  forget the  happy
 hours  passed there.   Hering and Dunham were sitting on the
 sofa together, Dunham asking and Hering answering, and we, a
 dozen or so, listening to that interesting conversation.  The rain
 had stopped ; it  Avas a clear night, and Avhen we broke up Hering
 felt so happy he  would not ride home, and invited us as his body-
 guard to accompany him  the short distance.   The  next  morn-
 ing Dunham and myself compared  notes at the  Continental
 hotel  and as Carroll Dunham  said:  " We felt better to have
 spent  such an evening with such a master, and we envied the phy-
 sicians who could enjoy (night after night) such a privilege."
  It was my habit  to make, year after year, my pilgrimage to
 this holy shrine, and I always left it highly satisfied Avith my gain.
 If I learned my lessons in liberality and charity from Dunham,
 I learned from Hering to value the opinions of others, and  to de-
spise those Avho  preach one thing and practice another.  Any
falsity was an abomination  to his  straightforward manner, and
the language which  he then  could  use, was more forcible than
elegant.  He always  felt  happy in  the midst of the young and 
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rising generation, and none ever left him without an encouraging
Avord.  Envy was unknoAvn to him, for he knew that he had done
his duty to humanity, and no one Avas more pleased than Father
Hering with the increase of our  homoeopathic literature.  The
one great fault which this master had, Avas, he tried  too much,
he began too  much, as if life would last forever.   His restless
mind knew only work, Avork, work, and if tired of one thing there
were so many wakeful ganglia in that large brain that other work
could be accomplished, and  thus  we fi»d in that glorious room
up stairs, and in those safes down stairs, treasures garnered, Avhich
he intended to give us, piece by piece, but threescore years and ten
and perchance four more  is the allotted time, and though a gra-
cious Providence  spared  him so long to us, the clock has run
down.  Let us honor the  memory of Constantine Hering by con-
tinuing those  masterly works which he laid out for us  during his
lifetime.   Thus, though departed,  he still lives in us and Avith us.

  Remarks  of Dr. T. F. Allen  :

  Mr. President and members of  the  Homoeopathic Medical
Society of the County of New York.
  Some of our colleagues can speak of the departed hero, whom
Ave commemorate this evening, as a felloAV-laborer, as one Avith
whom they toiled in their earlier as well as  during their more
mature years; to me, he  seems  like a pioneer, one Avhose labors
were to be built  upon, one  who prepared the way, who  hewed
straight paths through the thickets and let light into dark places.
This feeling toward him had birth  when one  winter's evening,
twenty years ago,  my revered  preceptor, Dr  P. P. Wells, took
me  to a meeting at the house of Dr. Joslin, the  elder, on  the
corner of  University Place and  Thirteenth Street.  How vividly
I remember  that evening, the calm, philosophical Joslin,  the
earnest  Bayard,  the positive Wells, the dogmatic Reisig,  the
keen-eyed  Fincke, and the enthusiastic life and centre of all—
Hering.  I was the only young man present, fresh from the Uni- 
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versity, full of the teachings of the scholastics, full of the old time
prejudices of my father.   That group of men, that enthusiasm of
Hering, the Avhole tone of thought  Avas so different  from that of
the schools, that I Avas forced to believe in a vitalizing truth in
Homoeopathy.  I ventured one  little remark to  Dr. Wells during
the evening.   Dr. Reisig  Avas  explaining some preparation  of
Castile soap, Avhich he considered a specific for burns.  He Avas
in the habit of applying it locally and of  giving a potency inter-
nally, and  Dr. Hering Avas combatting the local application.   I
asked  Dr.  Wells, almost in  a Avhisper, "but  does it cure?"
"Cure," thundered  Reisig, "of course it does."  Hering looked
at me,  smiled, and said, " That  was  a good question."  My heart
warmed toAvard him, and from  that time we were friends, though
he did not  always approve of my Avay of doing things.  Hering
was  always searching for truth; he despised no contribution to
his large knoAvledge, hoAvever  humble its source; he proved  all
things and  held fast to that which was good.  One can but be im-
pressed by  the  avidity Avith which he sought for the truth, while
reading his earlier contributions to  homoeopathic literature. His
first  article is in the Archivf. Homozopatische Heilkunst, for 1828,
a letter to the editor,  Dr. Stapf, from Surinam, dated Sept. 28th,
1827.  Prefacing the letter the editor remarks:  " These communi-
cations from Dr. Hering, of Dresden, Avho is well known to several
readers of  this Archiv and highly esteemed as a  zealous natur-
alist and  Avarm friend of Homoeopathy, now  for more than  a
year journeying in South America  studying the natural sciences
and medicine, deserve a place in this journal, on account of inter-
esting notes concerning the diseases of those countries and their
homoeopathic treatment;  they  Avill  also be peculiarly Avelcome to
those more nearly related to him giving, as they do, information
concerning  his life and doings."   First  he gives  us a careful
analysis of sea-sickness and his experience with  Cocculus 12th,
followed  by Staphisagria 30th.  In succeeding communications
he relates his experience with   Leprosy, the symptoms of which
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he studied most carefully.  The  enthusiasm Avith Avhich he took
up the study of Psorinum, the provings of Avhich  Hahnemann
reluctantly, and after patient investigations, allowed to be pub-
lished, was characteristic of the man;  now Avas his restless mind
content;  he seemed to see boundless possibilities in the "nosodes"
and took up the fascinating, but fatal, doctrine of Isopathy, and
enlarged, embellished and generalized from it, till  he found the
bottom of  soft, slimy ooze, Avhich he  then  struggled  out of and
hastened to wash clean off his skirts.   In his latter  years he saAV
clearly that it was fatal to Homoeopathy, and, like a true savant,
he retracted all he had said in its favor.
  I can testify, with  thousands, to  his  large heartedness, to  his
never-failing generosity.  In the special work on Materia Medica
which I have undertaken he has always been ready, even anxious,
to help me; from the time  when  I  translated his provings of
Aloes, Apis, etc., for the American Hom. Review, to my  latest task,
I am  proud to acknowledge with gratitude the  encouragement
and assistance received from Dr. Hering.   We  differed in some
things and he  has berated me soundly for differing,  but his help
continued.
  His faith in the homoeopathic law of cure Avas boundless, his
faith in his friends almost equally boundless; by nature, trusting
as trustA\orthy, he gathered  from everybody,  and  his shelves,.
groaning beneath the weight of the  harvest, testify  to his un-
Avearied industry.
  We shall do highest honor to Constantine Hering by imitating
his example.   Could  he  have  desired more than that?  There
has never been a  time in the history of Homoeopathy when it
was more  necessary to hold  fast to the first principles of our
faith ; never a time when  more Avere  inquiring the Avay to save
the sick than now, and shall Ave relax our firm  grasp  upon Avhat
we know to be right, for the sake of gaining popularity?  Hering
knew, as Ave know, that the right Avould prevail;  he kneAV, as Ave
know, that the chief principles of Hahnemann are laws of nature.
Let us then  imitate  him.  Let us be enthusiastic.  Let us  be 
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scientific.  Let  us be industrious.   Let us seek the  good that is
in everyone and help one another.  So shall we honor Hering.

   Dr. Joseph  Finch said:

   Mr. President: I wish  this evening to add my humble testi-
mony to the Avorth of the great  and good man Avho has gone
from us.
   In regard to  the death of our friend, Dr. Constantine Hering,
there can  be but one sentiment, one feeling, viz., that of loss,
irreparable  loss, the extent  of which we do not realize to-night,
but shall more  and  more in the days that are to come.
   The immediate circle in Avhich  he lived and moved has parted
Avith its brightest light and its sincerest friend; and those who
have only knoAvn him through the medium of his zealous labors
with the pen, missing the profoundness of his research  and the
unusual clearness of his statements, will gather up and cherish
what  he has given with  a  double care.  Homoeopathy has lost
her eldest son, her clearest-sighted pioneer, her bravest defender.
   He Avas her Nestor in America, and Avhen she writes his epitaph
many Avords will be required, each a picture in itself, to describe
the hero she has lost, the friend she has buried.
   His unparalleled devotion  to  Homoeopathy was not the out-
growth of fidelity to a school, nor could it be justly attributed to
the impulses of  an ambitious nature.  It Avas fouuded in the deep-
est conviction of an earnest heart, and stimulated by a manly love
of truth.
   He was not partisan in feeling.   He Avas not a hobbyist, but a
scientist that commanded the admiration of his friends  and the
respect of his foes.  But he has gone, and our grieving shall be
tempered  by submission to  the will and Avisdom of that Divine
Providence which gave him  to us at the  first, which sustained
him so long and Avell  in his professional career, and hath in the
full harvest time gathered him so peacefully to  the garner of re-
fined and ripened life—his home  in the skies. 
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  Dr. C. Th. Liebold said:

  Mr. President: I am not a convert to Homoeopathy, I have been
brought up in the faith.  In fact, among my earliest recollections is
the  magic relief of a very severe pain by two or three diminutive
sugar pellets,  administered after careful selection in " Hering's
Homoeopathischer Hausarzt," by my parents.  I have never A\a-
vered in my faith, neither the ridicule nor the scientific contempt
of greater or  lesser medical and non-medical lights has ever for a
moment been able  to extinguish the memory of the fact that it
did  help.  Not that I have ever remained faithful to the smallest
possible pellets or to any other "dictum" about the " dose," but
nothing has struck me more forcibly or made me a more confirmed
homoeopath than the attendance on lectures on Allopathic Materia
Medica.  On one side the advice  never to give more  medicine
than just  enough to cure; on the other from Arsenic down to
Zingiber, hoAv much a patient  could possibly bear without doing
him serious harm, and so and so much  will kill a large dog, Avhile
so and so much will finish a puppy.
  Reminded  to present  also my mite at this memorial meeting,
I rummaged  among my old  papers and found a copy of a letter
addressed to Dr. Hering, nearly fifteen  years ago, soon  after I had
settled in this city.  The occasion was a letter written to a mu-
tual acquaintance but indirectly to me, inquiring about informa-
tion on  some questions concerning  the eyes.   The first Avas the
dilatation of the pupil by atropia to  facilitate  ophthalmoscopic
examinations, and Avhether it would not cause permanent mydria-
sis  in some cases ?  The  second: what was  really the cause of
the sparkling of the eyes  (augenglanzen)?   The third:  Avhat
are the  crossed (rhombic) lines in the field  of vision ?  It does
not matter about the ansAvers, I only mention the fact because the
inquirer Avas then three-score and six, but still young enough to
learn a  lesson and an example, which I only hope to be  able to
follow.
  Some years later I remember he asked my opinion about that 
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 mischievous but plausible humbug  of  dry cupping of the eye-
 ball.
   The last years have brought some antagonistic views to light,
 about the enucleation of a diseased eyeball in certain cases, to
 prevent the loss by sympathetic ophthalmia of the other sound eye;
 in regard to which I will only say that  every oculist will be glad
 to learn that medicine will be able to prevent permanently such
 a disastrous result.  All such controversies not only do no harm
 in the end, but  they are absolutely necessary to elicit the truth,
 and if they are  conducted in  the sole interest of the truth, they
 Avill  benefit both sides.  I do not  believe that his hottest, but
 honest opponent will ever say that Constantine Hering ever had
 any other aim in view in his  Avhole  life.  Blessed always be his
 memory among us.

   Dr. J. W. Dowling  said  :

   If anything could be added to the perfect happiness that exists
 in Heaven, I should say that  our dear old patriarch brother and
 friend, as he looks down upon us from  his celestial and eternal
 home, is rendered supremely happy at listening to the kind words
 which, with stirring eloquence, have been spoken, and which
 have  come from the hearts of warm friends  and  admirers to
 Avhom his memory is still fresh and dear.
  It seems as if nothing was left for me to say.  Those who are
 my seniors—Avho have knoAvn him perhaps longer than I—have
justly sounded his praise, ha\re pictured his virtues, his honesty,
 his earnestness and zeal in advocating a cause dear  to him, not
 for advantages he himself derived, but because of the  benefits it
 conferred upon suffering humanity.
  This is not an occasion for  mourning, but rather of rejoicing.
  It is true he has left us ; his earthly remains have been laid in
 the ground, but  why should Ave be sad?   Was he not with us half
 a score of years beyond the allotted time of man ?  Should we not
 rejoice that this  long, this spotless life had been one of  usefulness 
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and of unremitting labor in the cause he loved so well—to the very
last ?  Should Ave  not  rejoice that  the results of those labors of
his later years are living, and will live to aid us and our children
in the work to which our lives are  being devoted ?  Should not
we Avho respect and love him rejoice that through all his long and
active life, not a truthful word had ever been uttered that could
reflect upon his  character as a man—as a christian—and that at
the last his death  Avas peaceful, calm and free from  protracted
suffering?  Should we not rejoice that his sorrows—for he had
sorrows—sorrows hard to bear, too,  are at an end, and that there
is before him an eternity of happiness ?   For I believe of such as
he is the kingdom of heaven.

  The following note was sent by Dr. B. F. Joslin:

  I am prevented by a cold from being present at the meeting
this evening, but I desire to contribute one word of praise to the
memory of the illustrious  Hering.
  I Avish to say that if in his long and useful life he had but given
us the proving of Lachesis, he would have been entitled  to the
everlasting gratitude of mankind.

  Dr. E. Guernsey said :

  It is my misfortune never to have had a personal acquaintance
with Dr. Hering, but the magnetism of his mind was so diffused
through all  his  works, that  a personal acquaintance Avas hardly
necessary to knoAV  the man.   Were  I asked to Avrite his epitaph
I should say, as was said of Sir Christopher Wren, beneath the
stately dome of St. Paul, reared by his  genius—Look  around
you!  Dr. Hering can have no nobler epitaph than his pure, al-
most blameless life and the broad, catholic spirit and the earnest
scientific research found in all his public Avorks, Avhich have placed
him in the first rank of profound, practical thinkers in the medi-
cal Avorld.   Aside  from the  scientific value of his life's work, Ave 
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are forcibly  struck with that spirit of christian kindness and
charity, Avhich we shall all do well to imitate.   He was, in every
sense  of the  word,  a christian gentleman, and illustrated in his
life and Avritings hoAv a man can be truly great and noble Avhen
divested of bitterness and selfishness.  By none will he be more
deeply mourned, and his memory held in greater reverence, than
by the younger workers in the field,  Avho looked to him as father
and friend.

   Dr. George S. Norton said :

  Having known Dr.  Hering for several years, both in a profes-
sional and social A\ay,  it gives me pleasure to record my high ap-
preciation of him as a  physician and as a man.  In his home life
there  Avas much to admire.  Wife and children Avere devoted to
him, and he  to them.   His  hospitality Avas well  known, and it
ahvays gave him  great satisfaction to see  his friends gathered at
his table;  all were made welcome,  and all  could not help but
enjoy those delightful, instructive talks with  the gifted Father
Hering.
  One of his chief pleasures and relaxations from work Avas on
Sunday afternoon, Avhen a circle of old friends assembled in his
reception-room, and over their cigars and  coffee compared ex-
periences and discussed various subjects.  Neither hot, cold, nor
stormy weather interfered with those social  gatherings.
  Of his investigations and teachings of our Homoeopathic Ma-
teria Medica, I need not speak, as his extensive knoAvledge, dili-
gent researches, and practical additions in this important depart-
ment  of medicine are known to you all—yes, not only  to us, but
to all, every  land and  every  clime, who haAre studied the laAV of
similia.   It therefore seems to me as  if the most  comprehensiATe
and fitting  eulogy to his Avorth is expressed  in the words, Con-
stantine Hering, a Father to Homoeopathy. 
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  Dr. Alfred K. Hills said:

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen :
  It is with no small degree of effort and embarrassment that I
attempt to find words in which  to express my respect for one so
great as he in Avhose memory we meet to-night.
  As we younger members of the profession glance reflectively
over such a life  as that of our  late colleague, it inspires us to
greater energy in the living of our own.  • His Avas filled not only
Avith the most industrious effort, but he gave freely of Avhat he
had and without the asking, to all those Avho chose to avail them-
selves of the results of his researches.
  With him  nothing professional was  secret, could not possibly
be kept as such, and he had the greatest abhorrence for any who
attempted this practice.   His precept  ahvays Avas, make every-
thing known  that  may by a possibility be of service to another.
We  could  scarcely find his equal in the world of science as a
student, and feAV  have originated more than he.
  What  greater epitaph  could  be placed over his resting-place
than the words "Lachesis," "Glonoine," and the "Guiding Symp-
toms of our Materia Medica."  Certainly no one individual could
hope for more than this Avould express.
  Our appreciation of his devotion to  that cause Avhich we all
hold so dear,  justly emphasized  by many, cannot be repeated too
often for those who love and cherish his memory.
  Let us, therefore, emulate his example in our faithfulness, and
then Ave may hope for that reAvard Avhich  is vouchsafed  only to
such.

  Remarks of  Dr. L. Hallock:

  Dr. Constantine Hering may, I think, be regarded as next to
Hahnemann  in the value and amount of his labors for the inter-
ests of Homoeopathy.
  Every reader of the periodic literature of our school must have 
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been surprised at the number and variety of his contributions.
Nothing but talents  of the highest order, united Avith earnest
zeal and untiring industry, could have furnished so many and so
valuable practical essays as he has  given  to the  profession.
Besides his large  and systematic Avorks, the numerous additions
to our Materia Medica furnished by his incessant labors, have
placed our school under lasting  obligation to respect  and honor
his memory.   Among these  additions  Lachesis has  long been
prominent  as one of the most valuable remedies at  our command.
More recently his elaborate and minute  articles on the history,
effects  and therapeutic value  of Lyssiii  evince  an  amount of
patient research and self-denying devotion truly surprising in  one
so occupied in active  professional duties.   The thoroughness of
his work is Avell illustrated in the extended pathogenesis of  this
potent remedy by experiments  upon  himself  as Avell as  others,
until, as he expressed it, "terrible  forebodings" Avarned him of
the danger of further trials.   Such  bold and  self-sacrificing
labors  for  science and humanity certainly deserve our  admira-
tion and gratitude.   The Avritings of Dr. Hering seem  designed
to be clear, forcible and practical, and Avhen from  their frequent
novelty and boldness  they Avere sometimes received with adverse
or doubting criticism, were defended Avith the  energy  and ability
of conscious integrity.

   Remarks of Dr.  E. Carleton,  Jr.:

   Mr.  President:—In response  to  your request to speak, I  will
offer my humble tribute to the character of our departed friend,
by saying that I felt love  and reverence for him.
   I remember, as if it Avere but yesterday, the  first time Ave met.
It was in  his office  as physician  and patient.   He stood  and
looked  at  me calmly, Avhile I  related  my  symptoms.  Then,
silently turning  to  his  desk, he prepared three  poAvders  and
handed them to me, Avith directions. I left him in wonder, for my
case had troubled the physician Avho had seut  me, and I had ex- 
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pected a long search.   The  remedy produced  a  violent aggra-
vation, and I recollect that Avonder temporarily gave place to a
state of mind  akin to  resentment.  Recovery folloAved, and so
did my promised report to the doctor.  The recital of the success
of his prescription  caused his face to smile all over, which ended
with a hearty, genial  laugh, and he said, "that  Avas al-o-es;  it
was low; it was the five hundredth."   Then seating himself and
motioning me to a chair, he went on to relate how7 he had suffered
similarly when proving the drug, and made me promise to Avrite
out and give to him a history of the case,  Avhich I afterwards did,
and informed me that the medicine had  been potentized for him
by Doctor Fincke,  from a choice bit of crude material furnished
by himself.  He then enlisted me in the search for a pure  drug
that he had  not been able to procure, for a proving.  When we
parted, I had learned  to  place a high estimate upon him.  He
Avas a noble man.
  Soon after that, Ave met again  in the college lecture-room, as
professor and  student  of medicine.  His subject Avas  Natrum
muriaticum; and as the golden Avords  fell from his lips, I made
every endeavor to preserve and profit by  them.  It Avas my good
fortune  to hear his lectures upon  various  drugs, which in the
hands of many prescribers have verified the provings, and demon-
strated his sagacity in arranging them.  I have often thought of
him when difficulties would beset me in the  sick-room ; and  I
know that his contributions  to our literature have enabled me to
save lives.  For this his memory is sacred to me.
  But, sir, I must not detain you Avith extended remarks.  You
do  not  care to hear  more  of my personal experiences.   It  is
enough to say that I loved and revered Constantine Hering ;  and
when he died, I felt that I had lost one of my best friends.

   Dr. Edward Bayard was  appointed delegate  to  the
memorial meeting  to  be held  in Philadelphia  on  the
evening of October 10th, and then  the meeting adjourned. 
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      PHILADELPHIA MEMORIAL MEETING.

   A large meeting was held on Sunday evening, October
10th, 1880, at the Hahnemann Medical College, Dr. John
K. Lee presiding.
   On motion, Dr. Charles Mohr was appointed Secretary.
   After numerous letters and telegrams were read from
physicians in many neighboring cities, expressing regret
at their inability to be present at the Philadelphia memo-
rial meeting, the following report Avas submitted on be-
half of the County Society :

   The Homoeopathic Medical  Society of the  County of  Phila-
delphia, uniting Avith the friends of Homoeopathy and medical
progress  everywhere, in  mourning the  departure of our  late
honorary member, Constantine  Hering, M.D., offers this tribute
of respect to his memory.
   We recognize in the decease of Dr. Hering the loss of one pre-
eminently adapted by nature and education to be a leader in the
early  struggles and sacrifices  of a neAV medical dispensation.
Cultured iu literature and in general science, learned  in all the
medical wisdom of the allopathic fathers, careful in the formation
of his opinions, zealous  for the advancement of his chosen  pro-
fession and ambitious to excel in the practice of his art, Ave yet
find him fearlessly investigating the principles of a neAV system,
accepting Avithout reserve and Avithout hesitation the OArerwhelm-
ing testimony  to the truth  of  Homoeopathy, flinging  aside the
temptations of professional honor and political preferment, fear-
lesslv  asserting his  "liberty  of medical opinion  and action" in
the presence of an arrogant and intolerable profession and  in the
face of his king, and deliberately casting his lot with the derided
and persecuted pioneers of a neAV and hated system, devoting all
his talents and energies to the perfection and dissemination of 
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the neAvly-discovered art  of healing,  laboring  Avith heart and
hand  and brain for its establishment over a  Avhole continent;
unswerving in his  adherence  to its  teachings, unflinching in its
defence and untiring in all labors for its advancement; he seemed
ever to realize that he had been raised up for this, his heaven-
appointed work.   We rejoice  that  he was permitted to Avitness
the vast  results, tOAvards  which  his own  herculean labors had
so largely contributed,—the shaken  foundations of the old medi-
cal superstructure, the triumphant  vindication of the once de-
spised system of Hahnemann, the establishment of its  hospitals,
its colleges and its journals, the organization of its societies over
the whole civilized world, and the spread of its beneficent influ-
ence by thousands  of educated physicians into millions of homes.
   We, his felloAV  members of this Society,  among whom he
walked and taught and labored for  so many years, Avho enjoyed
his intimate  personal acquaintance and  counsel, are  proud to
express our  appreciation of his personal character,  and his
abounding services in the cause  of progressive medicine—the
cause  of suffering humanity.   We shall eA'er hold his name, his
Avork and his worth in Avarmest remembrance, and our posterity
will rise up to do him honor.

  •As  expressive of the feelings  of  the  Faculty  of the
Hahnemann Medical College, the following Avas commu-
nicated by Dr. O. B. Gause, Registrar:

   We have contemplated the death of our venerable friend and
co-laborer, Constantine  Hering,  M.D., Emeritus  Professor of
Homoeopathic Institutes  and Materia Medica, with unfeigned
soitoav, believing that the Hahnemann Medical College has lost
its brightest light, and the homoeopathic school its most profound
and learned exponent.

   Dr. Edward Bayard, of New York, upon being  intro- 
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duced, made a few remarks, expressing his deep venera-
tion for the man in whose honor this memorial meeting
was held, and, referring to his address  before the New
York Society and the character of its meeting, begged to
be excused from further remarks.

  Dr. C. Pearson,  of Washington, D. C, was next intro-
duced, Avho responded as follows :

  It Avas not my good fortune to be as intimately acquainted Avith
the deceased  as many Avho may be present this evening, but  my
acquaintance Avas sufficient to induce me to travel over a hundred
miles to meet with you, his more immediate neighbors, on this
memorial occasion, and  to deplore Avith you the worth we have
lost.  That Dr. Hering  should not live longer in the body Avas
not at all strange, for eighty years he had seen the seasons come
and go, over half a century he had devoted to the relief of suffer-
ing humanity, he had heard  the call for help come up  from a
thousand tongues, and in response  to  this, he  had endured  the
summer's heat and the storms of Avinter.  With the key of energy
and  application, and the lamp of knowledge, he penetrated  the
arcana of nature, and searched  through her storehouse for  the
hidden remedy, Avhich, Avhen discovered, became the  property of
the entire Avorld; his  humanity was co-extensive with the race,
which he left wiser and better for  his having lived, and thought—
             A life thus long for others' comfort spent,
             Is human-nature's grandest monument.
  The end is not yet, Hering still  lives, like the dynamic property
of his Lachesis; and a hundred years hence the child Avill be born
that Avill bless his name  for the relief this medicine affords.
  But he has gone to that great institution of learning, Avhere we,
his pupils, will, ere long, like  irregular school boys, be dropping
in one by one. 
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  And Avho then shall  say so much of us ?  No one ;  and yet I
hope it may be justly said of each and all, that Ave contributed
our mite of influence to that  reform in medicine Avhich  portends
to the afflicted a brighter and happier day.
  But while Ave aspire to this, let us not forget that change is not
ahvays improvement, that  belief is  only temporal, while truths
are eternal, that these are the golden particles that glitter in the
sands of  time, and the friction of years but adds to their lustre.
If we cannot furnish another to that cluster of diamonds Hahne-
mann discovered, and Hering cut and set in his starry croAvn, let
us not Avilfully or ignorantly  tarnish their brightness.  If Ave at-
tempt to travel  the road they trod,  let  us  be careful Avhich end
we take, for they certainly lead to opposite results, and it is better
to be right with  a minority, than Avith the majority Avrong.
  Four score  years is a ripe  age to  attain, and  yet it  is far too
short to  reform  a Avorld;  truth  is of slow growth, and requires
care and painstaking,  and if  it rise  again when "crushed  to
earth," more than one generation may be required for it to do so.
  Those  truths then left us by Hahnemann, and so ably promul-
gated by Hering, Boenninghausen  and other pioneers gone be-
fore, should be guarded by us with zealous care, and  as Ave too
will soon pass to " that bourne from whence no traveler returns,"
may the  young men who succeed us realize that " truth is ever
the same, that time alters it not, nor is it the better or AvOrse for
being of either ancient or modern tradition."
  It may be possible that no  improvement could be suggested on
the order of nature, but in some  respects it seems unfortunate
that the knowledge and experience accumulated  during a long
life of patient industry, could not be bequeathed to others to be
used, and added to during their natural lives, and then to  pass
like a landed  estate to the  next of kin; but this seems not to be
a part of the programme, or panorama of human  life, but who-
ever Avould excel in knowledge and  usefulness must do so by his
own individual  efforts.   And however economical of time, his
life, however protracted, will be too short to attain perfection. 
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  We are only prospectors in  the field  of science.   One finds a
treasure  here, another there,  these become the support  of the
indolent, the Avealth of the Avise, and the sport of the ignorant;
the patient toiler in the mine of knoAvledge is rarely appreciated,
feAv take him by the hand and bid him  God speed—he is  called
visionary,  foolishly  demented.  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds   says:
" present and future time may  be regarded as rivals, and he who
solicits the one, must expect to be discountenanced by the other,"
and as men are the creatures of the age in Avhich  they live, not
its creators, it is not difficult to see  Avhy they should desire, and
court the flattery and commendation of their OAvn times more
than that of succeeding ages;  for Avith  such tenacity does mind
cling to  the dead  traditions of the past, that the  iconoclast  is
rarely popular during his lifetime; but it is  the bold adventurer
on unknoAvn seas that tells us of other continents, and future ages
build his monument.

            "So runs the world away."
                            " We are such stuff
            As dreams are made of, and our little life
            Is rounded with a sleep."

  It is unfortunate that amongst the unnumbered millions

            " That strut and fret their hour on the stage
            And then are heard no more,"

so many should be  "poor players," hence Avhen " after life's fitful
fever" a good man "sleeps Avell," it becomes so difficult to supply
his  place.
  But though a standard-bearer in our cause has fallen, our flag
must not  be loAvered, and  Avhen Ave too  shall haAre  followed him,
others, I doubt not, Avill close up the ranks, and still keep it float-
ing in the sunlight of eternal truth.
  Hering's  earth life  is ended, his conveyance Avas  ready  before
ours, and he is still in  our advance—Ave  shall miss him, but 
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                        " He hates him
         Who upon the rock of this rough world
         Would stretch him out longer."

       The night dew that falls though in silence it weeps,
       Will brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps;
       And  the tear that we shed though in silence it rolls,
       Will long keep his memory green in our souls.

  Dr. Ad. Lippe then rose and spoke as follows:

  Like children who have  lost  their father, Ave meet here this
evening to  express  our grief over the loss Ave suffered by the
death of Dr. Constantine Hering.
  As mourning children Ave  vividly remember Avhat the departed
was  to all of us, Ave remember how he instructed us, hoAV he
taught us by precept and example the way to  obtain a perfect
knowledge of the healing art, hoAV he  advised  us  to study the
writings of  Samuel Hahnemann, and Ave remember Avith grati-
tude his ceaseless labors in the field of Materia Medica.
  Dr. Hering was chosen among many able medical students at
Leipzig to write a pamphlet, and in it to expose the follies and
absurdities of a  neAV system of therapeutics by Samuel Hahne-
mann, and  with that honesty of purpose Avhich always guided
him  through life he undertook  that task;  his first step was to
study Hahnemann's  Organon  of the Healing Art,  and  then he
tried  the  correctness or the falsity of his  teachings by the ex-
periment.
  The only true test, the experiment,  convinced  him that the
follies and absurdities of the prevailing allopathic school of medi-
cine Avere  exposed by Hahnemann, that a rational system of the
healing art  Avas  reArealed to the Avorld by him.  Homoeopathy
but sloAvly gained ground  in those days.  The medical student
Avho in 1824, dared to declare his  conviction of the truth  of the
superiority of Homoeopathy over all  known systems of medi-
cine had  to  be a brave  and fearless man.  Persecution  folloAved 
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Dr.  Hering  at  once,  his  friend  and preceptor  Avho  had  ex-
pected him  to ridicule and demolish Homoeopathy,  summarily
dismissed  him, distressing privations folloAved, but his faith Avas
firm, it  Avas not to be shaken by early personal adversities, no
more than the progressive development of Homoeopathy could be
retarded by innumerable adversities and  persecutions Avhich all
the early  adherents of it  had to suffer.   Finally, Dr. Hering
bravely overcame  all these obstacles and he found a  true friend
in the late  Professor Sehoenlein, the father of a Avell  classified
pathology, and  protected  by him the young student graduated
at Wiirzburg.  After teaching natural sciences and mathematics
at Blochmann's Institute at Dresden he  obtained an appoint-
ment from the  Saxon  government as naturalist.  We  find him
at Surinam making collections for the museum of the Academy
of Natural Sciences at Dresden.   As an eminent naturalist the
Saxon government provided for him, but he Avas, almost against
his will, compelled to practice the healing art in Surinam.  The
Saxon government claimed all his time to be devoted to his ap-
pointment as their naturalist and were displeased with  his prac-
tice and the papers published by him in the homoeopathic journals;
he had  himself dismissed from the government service and Avas
again throAvn on his oavu resources.   It was there and then that
Dr. Hering obtained the few drops of the poison of the Trigono-
cephalus Lachesis, there and then he published the first provings
of this poison on the healthy and earned the everlasting gratitude
of the profession  Avho thereby Avere  enabled to cure sicknesses
formerly considered incurable.
   Again Ave find him devoted to the teaching of the  healing art
at the  AllentoAvn Academy, the first public institution of the
kind chartered by a  liberal  government.   The unselfish, self-
sacrificing apostle, regardless of his oavu individual interests, but
resolved to fulfil his self-chosen mission to its full extent, accepted
a much smaller compensation for his laborious Avork to which he
devoted all  his time and energies, than Avas accorded  forty years
later to the Secretary of the American Institute of Homoeopathy.
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The teaching of students of medicine, the publishing of Hahne-
mann's  Organon and a Materia Medica with a  Repertory in the
English language, the proving of drugs and the publication of
the medicinal virtues of Trigonocephalus Lachesis occupied his
time.   He had finally the gratification  to see the diplomas con-
ferred  by the AllentoAvn Academy on  its graduates, the first
homoeopathic diplomas  ever conferred,  accepted at home and
abroad.  Dr. Wahle presented this diploma to the Papal govern-
ment when he came to seek permission to practice in Rome, and
the Pope himself  accepted this diploma  and gave him  the re-
quested permission to practice Homoeopathy in the Papal States.
Later,  Dr. Hering returned to Philadelphia after Dr. William
Wesselhoeft  had been  appointed President of the Allentown
Academy.  With  a large  clientage he  found  in Philadelphia,
this indefatigable man added much to the further development
of our  healing art by the proving of neAV remedies and by per-
fecting and re-arranging many proven ones.  Not less active was
he in guarding our school against innovations  and perversions.
Many posological papers were published by him in the homoeo-
pathic  journals, his witty sarcasm silencing those who tried  to
modernize Hahnemann's plain  teachings.  He  never rejected, a
priori, apparently advanced ideas till  he had patiently investi-
gated the  proferred claims of their superiority over the  estab-
lished principles and rules accepted  by the early  folloAvers of
Hahnemann, but when no convincing proof of the correctness of
such innovations could be established, either  by argument or by
the test of the experiment, his powerful pen Avas brought into
requisition  and he very soon silenced these bold writers.  One
of his last acts was the signing of a paper declaring his unswerv-
ing faith in the essential principles of Homoeopathy, and finally
saying: "If our school ever gives up the strict inductive method
of Hahnemann Ave are lost, and deserve to  be mentioned only as
a caricature in the history of medicine."*
* North American Journal of Homoeopathy, August, 1880. 
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   As children who have here assembled to mourn the loss of a
father, Ave can do no greater honor to his memory than to always
remember  this parting  instruction  and Avarning;  and, on  this
solemn  occasion, let us resolve never  to depart from the strict
inductive method of Hahnemann, a method our departed friend
folloAved most faithfully for more than  half a century.

   Dr. Henry N. Guernsey then addressed the meeting as
folloAvs:

   Mr. President and FelloAv-Members  of the Profession:
   In rising to offer this tribute of respect  to the memory of our
departed colleague, allow me to dwell for a little Avhile upon the
early reminiscences of my acquaintance Avith him, Avhich dates
back to the days of my medical pupilage.
   In the autumn of 1842, I matriculated  in  the  Pennsylvania
Medieal College, which then occupied the  very building wherein
Ave are now assembled, and I soon made the acquaintance of Mr.
Hussman, a felloAv student.  He was then  a priAate pupil of Dr.
Hering, and later became  his brother-in-laA\\  My friend  soon
introduced  me to  the distinguished subject  of this memorial,
wdiose office at that time, nearly forty years ago, was located on
the  northwest corner of Eleventh  and Spruce streets.  During
the session, Dr. Hering  frequently came to our dissecting-room
to examine the abdominal viscera of the cadavera, that he might
the better establish  the truth of some of his theories.
   In my mind's eye I now see as I  saw him then—his erect and
commanding figure, his eager and piercing eye, his massive brow,
his well-shaped head crowned Avith long, black hair,  and his
whole appearance so clothed Avith  dignity as  to render  him ap-
parently unapproachable.
   At our first intervieAV, hoAvever, I discovered my  mistake; for
he proved  so genial, so friendly, and so communicative, that we
fraternized at once.  Thus, I am  proud  to  say, our fraternal
relations continued  to  our last conference, Avhich Avas only a few 
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hours before his demise.  During all these years it has been my
good fortune to have free access to him, even to his private study,
at almost  any hour.
   His active and inquiring mind  led him to  continually search
for, and gather up, all facts, particularly if new and of recent oc-
currence.   As an illustration, I Avill mention ■ the folloAving cir-
cumstance.  A short time after I had  located in Frankford, I
was quite  astonished to find  Dr. Hering at my door, early one
morning, inquiring  for the residence of a person  Avho had been
stung by a bee, whose sufferings had been published in the daily
papers.  I at once took him in my carriage to the house of the
sufferer, where he carefully noted down every fact and symptom
developed by the bee-sting.  This  case proved of great  value in
making up the  pathogenesis  of Apis mellifica, but it cost Dr.
Hering the fatigue of a sixteen-mile drive, beside the loss of time
to his professional duties of nearly the Avhole day.   We all know
the value of time to a physician in full practice.   But for him,
when  in quest of knowledge, everything  else had to  give way;
time, money, strength, sleep, and all else were sacrificed  for the
sake of science and Homoeopathy.   " Anything and everything
for our cause," as he was often heard to say.
   Dr. Hering, as consulting physician,  has many times driven to
Frankford to advise me on a bad case of sickness.
   How mightily he would apply himself to find the proper
remedy ?
   He never resorted to any make-shift;  but, firmly relying upon
the unfailing law of the Similars, he would persevere until the
true Similimum was found, and the cure  effected.  As an inva-
riable rule, the more dangerous the case, the more mightily Avould
he apply himself to the letter and spirit of the law  bequeathed to
us by Samuel Hahnemann.
   After my removal into the city proper, in  1856, the frequency
of my visits to him increased, Avhile my confidence in  and reli-
ance upon my dear old friend's judgment, were vastly heightened.
His abiding faith in the. true laAV of cure was exemplified in the 
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treatment of his OAvn person and of his family, Avhen ill, as Avell
as in the treatment of all his patients.   Everybody was treated
according to the same principles, and everybody shared equally
Avith him one of the greatest blessings a merciful Heaven has ever
vouchsafed to mankind.
   I will briefly refer to one or tAVO of the many instances, Avhich
might  be cited, to illustrate this point.   Some years ago he suf-
fered from a very  painful attack of hemorrhoids, which confined
him  to his bed.  Dr. Lippe prescribed Causticumem, one dose, and
admonished him to aAvait the action of the drug for three days.
The  improvement appearing  but  slight, as the prescribed  time
dreAV near its close, he began to doubt that the true similimum
had  been found; so, he took up his books and brought his own
great mind to bear upon  the search for a remedy.  Finding no
better  one, he concluded to aAvait the full expiration of the time
as agreed upon.   Soon afterwards he fell  into a sweet sleep, last-
ing several hours,  from which he aAvoke, wrell.  He  enjoyed tell-
ing of this triumph of the single dose and  the high potency, as
an encouragement for all  true healers to  go and  do likewise.
Again, Avhen one  of his daughters was very ill with diphtheria,
by my advice he had given a single dose of Lachesis, Avhich Avas
folloAved by so little  improvement in tAventy-four hours, that he
was sorely tempted to either repeat the dose or change the remedy.
But, as the little  patient Avas  no  worse, he concluded  to  wait
twelve hours longer, at the expiration of which time he had the
satisfaction of seeing her greatly improved.  He was ever faith-
ful to the true cause he loved so well, because, he believed it  to be
true!  As  with  all  true men,  believing with him was synony-
mous with doing.
   About seventeen  years  ago Dr. Ad. Lippe was greatly pros-
trated by an attack of typhoid fever.  So fearfully did the dis-
ease  rage that I feared he Avould not recover.  As Avas my custom
in all such bad cases, I repaired to Dr. Hering, who  had not yet
seen  the case, and  told him my fears.   Dr. Hering  suddenly
dropped his  pen,  and, giving me  one of his searching  looks, 
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apparently to see if I Avas  in earnest, said with  great emphasis,
" Dr. Lippe must not die yet!   I Avill go Avith you."  For over an
hour, with book in hand, he applied his great mind to the case
and  finally declared " Silicea is the remedy."  Drs.  P. P. Wells
and the late Carroll Dunham, Avho had been summoned, came in
later  and confirmed the wisdom of their  teacher's  choice—for
they, too, had taken their first lessons in Homoeopathy from Dr.
Constantine Hering.  Silicea stayed the ravages of the fever; its
subject made a rapid recovery,  and  Dr. Lippe stands among us
to-night, a living monument of  one  of Dr. Hering's good works.
  And so it ever Avas with our lamented father of Homoeopathy
in this country.  I never knew  him to deviate from the true line
of action in his efforts  to  heal the sick or to relieve the dying.
For he kneAv this to be the  best, and indeed the  only safe means
that  could be employed.
  Dr. Hering, above all men in our ranks, best  understood the
art  of acquiring wealth, that  real wealth Avhich far transcends
the value of such material dross as  gold or silver.  Look at  his
Lachesis!  Is not  this alone a work worth living a lifetime to
accomplish ?  Surely it would be a  sufficient  consolation at the
close of any one's life to be  able to say, " I have done thus much
for the good of humanity."
  Dr. Hering's note book Avas always at hand, and ever and anon,
wherever he might be or with whomsoever conversing, he jotted
down observations, precious " nuggets" as it Avere, to be deposited
in his big strong box so soon as he had retired to his private study.
As yet, only a feAV peeps into that box have been granted to his
heirs,—for, are not we his heirs, and  are we not to receive  our
respectiAre shares of his  valuable legacy, pro bono publico f  And
we trust  this will all be dealt  out to us, in good time, by the
publication of his invaluable work, " The Guiding Symptoms."
  Never did the slightest feeling of jealousy cross his mind.  If
any of his patients became  restive and called  upon other physi-
cians, his first inquiry, on missing them, Avas, " Where have they
gone ? If to another homoeopathic physician, then I am satisfied; 
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there is no loss, but rather a gain to our cause."  He was large-
hearted and  liberal, seeming to take in the whole profession as
one man and considered himself as one of the least.
   As an  observer, none equalled  him.  On  entering  the  sick
room, for instance, his all-seeing eyes took in at once the condi-
tion of things and his mind had often  decided  upon the proper
course to pursue before a question had  been asked;  his interro-
gations, later, Avere often more  to  confirm  and place on record
than  to  elicit  facts  for decision.  Intuition  was  a  poAverful
element in his mind, and this Avas cultivated to  a high degree by
his truthfulness of character, and his good  thoughts and feelings
toward every one  he  knew.  He never plotted evil  and never
sought revenge, but  was as innocent  minded as a child.  He
reached out in  all directions for truth,  and wherever his investi-
gations extended, all Nature seemed to  yield up her treasures to
him, for  she found no corrupt  or opposing  influences in his
mind to operate against her.  Truth evrer responds to the true-
minded truth seeker; and  never Avas  she better  treated, never
less perverted, than by Constantine Hering.
   But his race  is run and he has left  us.  He was almost the
last one  of  Samuel Hahnemann's  pupils who remained upon
this earth.   Hahnemann and his faithful cotemporaries are now
reunited  in a nearly completed phalanx, to stand enshrined in
our memories as  the  noblest representatives of the cause they
lived for in this Avorld.  It Avas a needful and an orderly step
that our good doctor should go  to the end, that  he might become
more fully conjoined to, and continue and labor with those faith-
ful and powerful  allies  on the other  side.  And he departed,
was almost translated, in the Lord's  own good time, and now Ave
may reasonably expect  a fuller,  a  more poAverful and a more
general display of the real Hahnemannian principles than  evrer
before.
  Let us profit  by his example  and  cherish in our memories the
truths Avhich  came Avorded from his tongue. 
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   Dr. Robert J. McClatchey  being  called upon spoke as
follows:

  If I have a proper understanding of the object and scope of
this meeting, it is  to afford an  opportunity to those who loved
and Avho revere the memory of Dr. Constantine Hering, to testify
their  respect for his  memory, and, at the same time,  to give evi-
dence  in some Avay of their appreciation of his character as a
man and as a physician; so that by the contributions thus made
the world may be able to knoAV what Avas thought of our departed
friend, by those Avho kneAV him  best, and who are  most capable
of estimating him at a proper value.
  UpAvards of thirty years ago, Dr. Hering wrote as folloAVS,
in an  article entitled, "Requisites for a Correct Estimation of
Hahnemann," published in the Hygea-* "If Ave Avould form an
estimate of a man Avho belongs to history, an estimate Avhich
shall  itself lay claim to a place in history, and rise above the
fleeting interest of ephemeral productions, we must  found it upon
a full consideration  of the whole life and labors of him to Avhom
it relates."
  "Thus should the historian accompany  his hero to the time
when  a friendly beckoning hand Avithdraws  him from things
Avithout, his senses close to  page and speech, unfold to sources of
joy and hope, and he departs, at peace Avith himself, Avith God
and Avith the mantled Avorld.
   " Then let the estimate follow—not in the Avork—not  penned
by the laborious biographer, but formed in- the inmost  soul of
him Avho shall have read and weighed the Avhole."
   It has seemed to  me that there Avas no more marked traits of
Dr. Hering's remarkably pronounced  character than his stead-
fastness of purpose, in his endeavor to  carry out to  the utmost
eATery task laid before him; and there is, in my  opinion, a unity of
purpose distinguishable through all his Avork, and characterizing
it in a marked degree as Avell as exhibiting  this steadfastness.
* Hygea, v. 22, p. 296. 
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  Those of us Avho had the privilege and  pleasure of personal
intercourse Avith Dr. Hering, know well Avhat an instructive and
even  fascinating conversationalist  he Avas.   And Ave know how
that,  Avhile  pursuing a  subject in this way, his vast learning
would often lead him aAvay from the path that led directly to the
subject under consideration, into Avhat at  a superficial glance,
seemed mere no-thoroughfares of thought, that led no whither, it
Avould soon prove that these Avere  instead pleasant and beautiful
conversational by-paths, Avhich led directly into the main path-
Avay, and Avhich had served  simply as an agreeable  and momen-
tary diversion, but not in any Avay distracting attention from the
end in vieAV.   Even in such matters as these, of every day occur-
rence, and coming up in the Avay of chance and  every day con-
versation he exhibited the  utmost steadfastness of purpose.  How
much  more marked then might we expect to find this steadfast-
ness in his life's Avork.
  I can liken Dr. Hering's  life to nothing  more appropriately,
I think, than by comparing  it to a magnificent and  grand piece
of music  by a Bach, a Handel,  a Mendelssohn, a Haydn, in
which,  Avhatever A'ariations  are introduced the original theme
is recognizable throughout and at all times, and Avhich gives to
the variations  their tone,  their key, their character  and their
poAver.
  The theme of Dr.  Hering's life-music  consisted in  his  desire
and  striving for the  elevation  of his beloved Homoeopathy to a
position among the sciences; to place  it upon a scientific basis
and to make its Avorkings those of an exact science.   Uefer to this
great man's life and labors.  Consult his writings as I have done,
from  his earliest to his  latest, and you Avill see, as I have seen,
that he had this constantly in ATieAV, and  was  steadfast in his
wish  for  its  accomplishment;  and  no  matter  into what  no-
thoroughfare or byways he may have strayed, he never lost sight
of his great  goal.
  There was nothing meretricious about Dr. Hering.   Whatever
Avork he did Avas for Homoeopathy and the truth,  and Avithout 
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reference to  pay or  reward.   He Avas always  accessible and
always willing to  teach  all Avho  Avished to learn Avhat  he con-
sidered to be the better way, but  he never  indulged in that very
agreeable, but by no means useful pastime,  of "damning those he
had no mind to."  He afforded the fullest respect to the opinions
of others, and largely for that reason he and his opinions always
commanded respect.
  The amount of Avork  he did Avas simply enormous.   He was
an earnest and a  patient toiler,  Avho, as we are informed, died
almost Avith his Avorking harness on.
  In  his Avork,  whether  in  verbal communications, through
books, or through  journals, he supplied enough  of wisdom, of
learning, and of other requisites  to  make  first-class reputations
for a score or  more of doctors.  His works Avere  grandly con-
ceived and as grandly executed, and of course there Avas  surplus-
age.  To him and his works are applicable  the Avords of Schiller:
        " How many starvelings a rich man can  nourish!
         When monarchs build - the rubbish-carriers flourish."

  "So then  our  Greatest  has  departed.   That melody  of life,
with  its  cunning tones, Avhich took captive ear  and heart,  has
gone  silent;  the heavenly force that dwelt here victorious over
so much, is here no longer; thus  far, not farther, by speech and
by act, shall the Avise man utter himself  forth.   The End!  What
solemn meaning lies in that sound, as it peals mournfully through
the soul, Avhen a living  friend has  passed aAvay!   All iioav is
closed, irrevocable; the changeful life-picture, growing daily into
neAV coherence, under new touches  and hues,  has suddenly be-
come completed and unchangeable;  there  as it lay, it  is  dipped,
from  this moment, in the sether of the heavens, and shines  trans-
figured, to endure even so—forever.    The Aveek-day man, Avho
was one of us, has put on the garments of Eternity and become
radiant and  triumphant.   ******
   " The man Avhom we loved lies in his grave; but glorious, worthy;
and his spirit yet  lives in us with an authentic life.  Could each 
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here voav to do his little task, even as the departed did his great
one, in the manner of a true man ; not for a Day, but for Eternity!
To live, as he counselled and commanded, not commodiously in
the Reputable,  the  Plausible, the  Half, but  resolutely in  the
Whole, the Good, the True:
        '/hi Ganzen, Guten,  Wahren resolut zu leben !' "*

   Dr. Bushrod W.  James next made the following  re-
marks :

Fellow-Members of the Profession:
   We, the intimate associates and friends of Constantine Hering,
M.D., and residents of the city of his adoption, assemble together
to-night, as do his friends in  other cities all over the land and the
homoeopathic world, to say a feAV Avords of meed in honor and to
the memory of a great and good man.
   We are not here to erect a monument, for  that  his life  has
done  for us, in  his Avorks, and Avritings, and teachings.
   His labors are knoAvn, his virtues need no further inscription,
his good qualities of heart are impressed upon all he  conversed
Avith, his professional skill was undoubted, his  steadfast purpose
of benefiting mankind was always a guiding star in his life; he
Avas always at  his post of duty,  and he filled the post allotted to
him by the Great Architect of the Universe Avith faithfulness and
cheerfulness  of disposition.
   His mission was first that of a standard-bearer of  the neAV sys-
tem, and later he was acknowledged a superior officer in the war-
fare of the medical systems of the age.
   He lived an  eventful and useful life, and died with honors and
glories surrounding him.
   Every age has its progressive  spirits; men  that  are born to
leave a name inscribed upon the scroll of time  deeply cut in let-
ters of gold, and whose acts  stand out in plain relief and beauty
* On the Death of Goethe, by Thomas Carlyle. 
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among the good deeds of others around  them; our fallen com-
panion Avas truly one of these.
  He Avas a liberal man in his prescribing, and was not bound to
any excrescent ideas;  he read Hahnemann's works as he did his
Bible, and he tested all that Avas there  advanced, and he held
firmly to all that Avas valuable and useful in the Organon of Ho-
moeopathy, as Avritten  by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and like him
Avas not afraid to stand boldly up for its truths at all times.
  He Avas not one to fetter the dose or limit the repetition or size
of the same;  he allowed  every physician his own judgment in
such matters, and he unsAvervingly exercised his OAvn.   But while
thus liberal he always adhered strictly to the law "Similia Simi-
libus  Curantur," and  also to the selection of the remedy accord-
ing to the totality of the symptoms.
  He Avas most careful in the proper and thorough examination
of all the symptoms of  his patients,  no matter how much time
and trouble Avas involved in the questioning, knoAving that suc-
cess depended on obtaining a true picture of the disease.
  He believed in  a general knoAvledge  of all the branches of
medicine of both schools, for he says :  " No one can be a success-
ful disciple of Hahnemann Avho is not well versed, as Hahnemann
himself Avas, in the learning  of the medical schools, and it Avould
be just as impossible for him to act judiciously Avithout a knoAvl-
edge  of anatomy,  physiology, pathology, surgery and materia
medica, together Avith  chemistry, and botany, as for a man igno-
rant of  navigation and seamanship, to carry a vessel with  safety
into port."
  He was free in giving advice to learners, and Avould sit by the
hour  and converse with any member of  the  profession who de-
sired to have the benefit of his Avide experience with our homoeo-
pathic remedies, and his  mature judgment in the proper selection
of the remedy in complicated  and obscure cases was often thus
sought.   Even Avhen I Avas a student, I, Avith a number of others,
paid frequent visits to his house,,at his request, to hear from his
lips (without any desire of  recompense), the  unfoldings of the 
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materia medica, and the clinical experiences of this large-hearted,
generous disciple of Hahnemann.
  No toil Avas  too  arduous, no time  thus  spent Avas considered
lost, no research on his part Avas thought burdensome, no careful
study Avas left  undone that Avould enable him to present to stu-
dents of Homoeopathy in or out of the profession clearly the doc-
trines of the homoeopathic practice.
  He Avas a constant student and an arduous laborer in the cause.
He fought for a higher  medical education all his  medical  life:
he directed many a battle ; he passed through the life-Avork cam-
paign ;  he Avas on  the  upper outlook of the mountain peak of
knowledge himself, and saAv the desire of his heart  realized, the
victory Avon, the world acknoAvledging the truths of Homoeopathy
and its  educating influence upon the profession and people: and
to-day Ave place the laurels upon the broAV of one of Hahnemann's
most trusty and Avorthy generals.

  Dr. John C. Morgan pronounced the following eulogy:

  Ripe, full of days,  and rich in Avorthy doing, so  departed  our
friend, our teacher, our patriarch, Dr. Constantine  Hering; and
to-day,  Ave Avould speak of the loved and lost.
  Deep in the human soul, to-day, as ever, survives that earliest
idea of worship — the homage of the  Past — overlaid and en-
crusted, indeed, Avith the material glory of the Present, but Avarm
and vital, e\Ter aAvaiting the  artistic touch,  the seer's interpre-
tation, or the tension of public or private grief, or triumph, for
occasion to gloAV, bright and beautiful, in the sunlight of the
human  affections.
  Are the Fathers in  honor?  Then  do the children  rejoice,
with front erect, bold,  forceful.  Are they in contempt?  Then
do the children cringe, falter and fail.
  Time was, Avhen ancestors' manes were  household gods;  time
was, when citizens, blameless, devoted, venerable, invincible, de-
parted  life for the land of shades, only to be deified — we knoAV 
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better noAV, do we not?  But in  the grand old days, the heroes
lived evermore, caring for the commonwealth, guiding counsel,
directing Avar, upbuilding the state;  as  demigods adored, Avith
sacrificial honors.  Insult  offered, even to the statue of the hero,
Avas insult  inflicted upon the state; nay, more—whoso refused
homage Avas the enemy of the state and of his people.  In the
Christian ages, the church has ever done  likeAvise by her saints,
revered, eAren Avhen unadored.
  Hero-Avorship!  is  it commendable?  Ancestral glory!  is it
nothing worth?   Antiquity! is  it venerable?  Let  the potent
conservatism of "the medical profession" ansAver.  Let the large
and respectable  clientele  of that old guild, reply; that army of
devotees who bend the ear to hear, and the knee  in devotion, as
medical antiquity is exalted, and its heroes named; justly exalted
—truly named.   The heroes and their  deeds—their thoughts,
their words-—these are indeed immortal!   'Twere  but  a bootless
venture,  Avere we, their legatees,  to turn the  ungrateful back
upon those mighty dead.
  But  the long, long past  stretches forward unto this day.   Ho-
moeopathy avrites beneath  that noble galaxy, the name of a new
constellation—a  group of heroes  as glorious  as  they; feAV  in
number,  but of  imperishable fame.   Antiquity  overtakes us.
Hahnemann, Gram, Jahr,  Boenninghausen, Buchner, Hausmann,
Grauvogl, Henderson, Quin, Jeanes, Beebe, Temple, William-
son, Dunham, Gardiner,  Payne,  Hempel, Hering; these have
gone over to the reunion of the great.  One by one has the heroic
Past inscribed them upon  her scroll.   We, too, are  acquiring a
history—short, it  may be, in time; but long, in all that makes
time venerable;  ages old,  in the truth spoken, and in deeds per-
formed.
  Ye  homoeopaths,  behold these, your  heroes!   measure  the
territory, glory in the fame they have won for  you;  emulate
their exalted worth.   Mark well, too, the noble,  souls Avho yet
remain with us, to pile still loftier  mountains of grand doing
upon the heights attained by them.  Behold our fast rising 
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Olympus, our moving Pelion, our trembling  Ossa, upheaved by
their  giant  shoulders, and say, if Ave live not in the heroic age
ourselves—the age of the pioneers—the age of laborious sowing
—the age of iron, of the poAver of LAW, in the history of medi-
cine, as of universal progress !  Let us knoAV what is our birth-
right—recognize the heavenly afflatus inspiring our oAvn heroes
—erect our OAvn Palladium—build our own Pantheon—perceive
the vision of our Olympian court—cherish Avorshipfully our own
hastening antiquity—and condemn the threatened oncoming of
an  untimely age of brass ;  of an early and slovenly reaping;  of
glib and lively egotism, and,  it may be, of reaction.
  What care Ave for that—or for them ?  That is the mete-yard
of our OAvn domain.   They fought and  labored to Avin it; their
posterity enter in and  possess it.  Homely and trite is the pro-
verb—and true as trite " 'Tis but an unclean  bird Avho befouleth
his OAvn nest."  He is but an umvorthy homoeopath Avho vvould
asperse his OAvn professional ancestry.   And  for Avhat?  To con-
ciliate the medically ungodly?  To Avin opponents, never gener-
ous, never just?  (I except individuals).  Rather let us learn
their politic Avisdom.  Fas est ab hoste doceri.  The compulsion of
history alone can Avin them;   each full-mailed Avarrior, like  the
ancient Spartan, must  fix the boundary of his estate, only with
the point of his spear!  Each man  must be a hero,  each hero
panojilied in the armor of truth, sent  doAvn from heaven at the
prayer of Samuel Hahnemann;  claiming  the whole  continent,
moving fonvard—fonvard—upAvard, evermore !
  Constantine Hering thus fought the good  fight, and has con-
quered.  The  hero has taken  his Olympian seat.  The glory of
the ancients is his.   His deeds and his memory remain  to us.
Thus  he fought, and  thus  he won.   By that same sign may all
Ave  prevail!
  And as we look backward upon the more than  half a century
of his struggle, may the lesson of his life be to each of us, at once
an inspiration and a new point of departure; may each emulate
the courage, the  patience, the  industry, the  truth, the faith, of 
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those grand fifty years of his doctorate;  remembering ever, that
for us, as for all, the path of true honor lies oftenest  through
valleys  of obloquy,  to  hills of difficulty, mountain-high;  our
only  sustenance, ofttimes, the  soul-power Avithin;  ofttimes un-
resting, ofttimes alone.

           " The heights by great men won, and kept,
             Were not attained by sudden flight;
           But they, while their companions slept,
             Were toiling upward in the night.

           We have not wings, we cannot soar,
             But we have feet to scale and climb
           By slow degrees, by more and more,
             The sunlit summits of our time."

   The life of our departed friend was the realization of this song
of our national poet;  for

           Thus did our Hering toil and climb —
             Thus proved his life-work true, sublime—
           Thus wrought, thus fought, thus won ; then died,
             Nay, lived anew, and Death defied.

           Sage ! teacher! hero unexcelled !
             Thy name shall be in homage held—
           Thy work endure, while time shall be ;
             Thy praise befits Eternity.

   Dr.  Martin  Desch^re,   of NeAV  York, was the  next
speaker, who said :

   I, too, was permitted to press his hand once in my life.  My
longing for that moment to come was  more than compensated by
the happy hours  Avhich I spent in his sacred study.  Those feAV
hours Avere blessed.   They truly belong to  the happiest ones in
my life.
   Many of you Avho kneAv Dr. Hering intimately are better able
to speak of his personal traits than  I  am. 
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  To my mind the object of this memorial meeting should be the
collection of those thoughts  Avhich characterized  the man for
Avhom Ave mourn to-night.  For Avithin us he planted the seed of
his wisdom ; unto us he left the great work of his life as a sacred
inheritance—the  search after  truth.  Therefore we can honor
him  no more than by folloAving his footsteps, by marching on-
Avard from Avhere  he stopped, by fighting with  his Aveapons for
our  beloved  art.   And here  Ave must ask  the  important ques-
tion  : What Avas the mission of Constantine Hering ?  It was to
make  Homoeopathy universal; to  proclaim its  truth  to all
mankind !
  The history of his life tells us how far he has succeeded.   He
has spread Homoeopathy over nearly one-half of the globe.  But
is Homoeopathy  universal ?   It  is not.   And here  begins  the
work A\Thich  he left for us to do, Avhich we must  do, as far  as
our poAver permits, Avith all energy and force, just as he did  him-
self.   This is the inheritance Avhich he has  left us and Avhich Ave
must hold sacred.
  If we  look to-day at the number of homoeopathic physicians
in the United States, with  its flourishing colleges, its numerous
societies, its well-conducted hospitals and dispensaries, we might
be inclined to think that nothing remains to  be done, that all is
good and  working  for itself.  We might  be inclined to think
that Homoeopathy is really becoming universal.
  But look at Europe.   Look in particular to Germany, where
stood Hahnemann's cradle, Avhere Homoeopathy itself Avas born,
where Constantine Hering Avas consecrated  to the cause.
  I  hold in my hand a letter addressed to Dr. Hering by a man
Avho, from pure  devotion  to  Homoeopathy, begs a  feAv  articles,
Avritten in defense of Homoeopathy, for a German periodical.  In
this  letter the position of Homoeopathy in Germany is painted in
the most pitiful colors, and Dr. Hering  is  requested to write a
treatise on the success  of our cause in America, that it may  open
the eyes of the public across the Atlantic.
  The one Avho Avrote the letter is not a physician.   He is a man
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who has Avitnessed the great blessings of Homoeopathy among
his friends, and Avho  cries for help in behalf of his fellow-men
throughout his country.
   The letter never reached him to Avhom it Avas addressed.  It
arrived in Philadelphia a few days too late and Avas sent to me,
with the request that I should fulfil the demands expressed in it,
for it certainly carries a plea of great significance.
   Just at the moment Avhen our great counsellor parted from us,
this voice calls from abroad for help—help in our good cause.
   Homoeopathy is not yet universal.   The iron  chains of preju-
dice, of scientific  idolatry,  of despotism,  hold it in their  tight
grip.
   From  this country of  freedom alone,  liberty must  come to
Homoeopathy throughout the world.  In  the name of Constan-
tine Hering  let me  beg  of those gentlemen Avho Avill vi^it the
World's Convention,  to be held  abroad next summer, to remem-
ber this  meeting, to  keep  sacred Hering's inheritance, and to
fight for Homoeopathy in  Europe.
   I trust to  their Avise counsel that by  some means they may
plant a nucleus containing sufficient life  from Avhich  to develop
a  giant in  aid of Homoeopathy abroad.  The World's  Conven-
tion here, Avhich Dr. Hering instituted, was a great step toward
the universality of Homoeopathy.  And  in working thus with
the true spirit of progress we shall honor our immortal Hering.
   It is a sacred debt  we owe, and Ave must pay it.

   Dr. Constantine  Lippe, of New York, followed with the
following remarks:

   Allow  me to offer my tribute  of respect to the memory of my
name-father.  As an  individual  loss, his departure leaves a great
void.
   It Avas my custom  on my visits to Philadelphia, to call  upon
our friend and spend some very  profitable hours with him.   His
uncompromising adherence to  the strict  principles of  Homoeo- 
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pathy, as taught by Hahnemann, helped me in a great measure
to be more certain that these principles were true, for in his long
and successful practice he, by adhering to those principles, could
and did cure cases  of disease,  entirely unmanageable by any
other  course of treatment.
  Dr.  Hering Avas one of the best friends I ever had, genial, cor-
dial ; and never Avas a visit paid him by me but he was ready and
Avilling to  share  his great knowledge on any subject inquired
upon.   He took  great pleasure  in imparting his  information,
gained by his close studies and  long  experience.  But he com-
pleted his life, full,  long, and useful, and  dropped to sleep  to
Avake  Avithout the worn-out frame which had become  enfeebled.
  " That bodies should be lent  to us Avhile they can afford  us
pleasure, assist us in acquiring  knowledge, or in doing good  to
our felloAAr-beings, is  a kind  and  benevolent act of God.  When
they become unfit for  their purposes,  and afford us pain instead
of pleasure,  instead  of an aid becoming an incumbrance, and
answer none of the  intentions for Avhich they were given, it is
equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by Avhich Ave
may get rid  of them.  This way is death."  So wrote Benjamin
Franklin in 1756.
  Our friend has departed from the earth sphere, but his memory
will be held in dear remembrance.

   Dr. Charles B. Gilbert, of Washington, D. C, expressed
himself in this  wise:

  Having been  a member of Dr. Hering's  household for some
months, and having had some opportunities for observing the inner
life of that great  and good  man, there is one quality to Avhich I
Avish to refer.  As I Avas hurrying across the country from the
West  to attend  the  funeral, to relieve someAvhat the  sadness of
my thoughts, I took  up a little book that had been  put into my
hand  by a friend just before I started;  it Avas the little story by
Edward Everett Hale, of the " Poor  Men of Lyons "—as  they 
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were called—hoAV they had  given  up wealth and position to
spread  the gospel; their appeal to  each  other Avas—" For the
love of Christ" and the ansAver was—" In his name."   " Verily,"
I said, Doctor Hering Avas a " Poor  Man of Lyons," indeed, and
a prophet among them.
  On the day of the funeral, as I stood by the door receiving the
hundreds who came to view the face of their benefactor, and saAV
among  them  scores Avho could, in their poverty, only have called
on him " For the love of Christ," I could not help thinking—
these are the " Poor Men of Lyons;" the tears that rolled down
their cheeks told  louder than Avords  that the ansAver to their ap-
peal had been—" In his name."
  I cannot find words  to express my individual sorrow and in-
debtedness to him on whose monument no fitter motto could be
engraved than this—" He loved his  neighbor as himself."

   On  behalf  of Dr.  C. W. Boyce, of Auburn, N.  Y., the
secretary presented  the following reminiscences  of Dr.
Hering, prepared and  read before, the Central New York
Homoeopathic Medical Society,  October  17th,   1880, by
Dr.  Boyce, who desired  the contribution to be made a
part of the proceedings  of the Philadelphia Memorial
Meeting:
  We speak to-day in memory of the  late Dr. Constantine Hering,
of, I cannot say Philadelphia, because  he belonged to  the Avorld.
You have selected me to say something in regard to him, not be-
cause I am more  competent to do it than the rest of you, but from
the accident  that I had been thrown more  into his society.  In
order to explain how my  acquaintance Avith  him began, and why
it continued, I must  commence several years  before  I first saAV  ^
him.
  The name of Dr. Hering is so closely associated with Lachesis,  ' *
in my mind, that when one is mentioned the other is almost sure 
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to come up Avith it, and to a great extent, Avith me, Homoeopathy
depends upon Lachesis for its glory.  It was  by Homoeopathy
that I became acquainted with Lachesis, and it was by Lachesis
that I came to know Dr. Hering.  In 1846 I first became practi-
cally acquainted Avith Homoeopathy,  and  began to practice it in
preference  to the ordinary method.  It Avas  not until several
years after  that, that the wonderful healing powers of Homoe-
opathy Avere fully revealed to me.  I had a case of typhoid fever
Avhich had  continued for  twenty-one days unchecked.  At this
time there seemed no  chance for the patient to recover.  Hope
had been abandoned, when, during the night following the twenty-
first day, Lachesis was given every two  hours.   Next morning
there Avas a complete  change.   The tongue was  moist  and the
delirium was greatly lessened.  From this time on convalescence
commenced and progressed until health was restored.  This case
Avas never  forgotten, but  in my daily rounds it Avas a long time
before I saw another  such result.   It came, however, in  a case
of gangrene.  A woman  discovered a small black spot on the
calf of her leg, which gave her a great deal  of uneasiness,  and it
rapidly increased in size.   When I  saw  it  she Avas in bed, and
the spot measured three inches  in diameter.   It was rapidly in-
creasing, in size, and she grew sicker and sicker.  Lachesis was
given, and in a feAV hours  the progress of the disease Avas checked.
In a few days the entire piece of flesh which was affected fell out,
leaving a hole reaching to the sheath of the muscles.  This healed
kindly in a very short time.  These cases were treasured up in
memory.  Soon after this, a case of aneurism of the aorta, where
the  patient was obliged  to  sit by  the open window day and
night, in order to get all the fresh air she could, was Avonderfully
relieved by Lachesis.
  Again followed a time of professional  drudgery without strik-
ing results,  when I was startled.   A woman who was nursing a
child Avas aroused at midnight by the cry of fire.   She had only
time to grasp her child and rush out of the house in  her night
dress.   It was  Avinter  time, and  she went  into snow up to her 
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knees.   She stood about in this undress until the house Avas con-
sumed before seeking shelter.  The result  Avas that she  did  not
get out of bed until the next summer, and  then  only by the help
of Lachesis, Avhich in nine days not only took her out of bed, but
set her doing her housework.
   Now to me, Homoeopathy Avas fast coming to mean Lachesis,
but I was soon to be aroused from any security I felt in the prac-
tice of even Homoeopathy.  A great  grief came upon me.   My
only son  sickened and died in a few days.  During his sickness I
could  not  see that anything  given  medicinally produced any
effect.  The disease Avent on unchecked  until he died.  On the
day of the funeral the tAvin sister Avas taken sick Avith the same
disease, and only after a  severe struggle was saved.  Disheart-
ened I asked whether there was any remedial virtue in medicine ?
My cases treated by Lachesis answered this question.  Then came
another question:  has my  practice of medicine been a success?
On comparing  results Avith other physicians whose death-roll I
kneAV, I found that my success or failure, whichever it might be
called, was, perhaps, a fair average.   But this did not satisfy me ;
I asked myself another question.  If I could occasionally get such
results as I did  from Lachesis, why could I not get them from
other remedies ? where should I seek  for the answer ? I had been
for several  years practicing  Homoeopathy, and preferred it to
Allopathy, from Avhich I had turned.  During these years of prac-
ticing medicine I had not seen in either practice any such results
as came  from the administration  of Lachesis.   Two steps had
been taken; I had found Homoeopathy; I had  found Lachesis;
I knew or believed that  Dr. Hering Avas the one who introduced
this remedy into use.  The next and third step in progress Avas
to seek Dr. Hering. I Avrote to Dr. Hering, asking him whether
I  could  call upon him  and hope  to find  him  unoccupied  long
enough for me  to get some information Avhich would help me in
the practice  of Homoeopathy?  I  Avas impressed with  the idea
that by seeing and talking  with Dr. Hering I should be able to
go on and acquire Avhat I wanted.  I did not wait  for an ansAver 
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to my letter, but Avent at once to Philadelphia and  called at his
house on the same evening of my arrival.  I found him entertain-
ing a  large number of physicians in his  garden, Avhich  for the
occasion Avas lighted by tapers in the trees.  The garden Avas full
of little tables, Avhich held  refreshments, and Avhich were, served
after the German style.  On announcing myself at the door as a
physician, I Avas ushered into the garden, along Avith the rest.
After being there a short time I learned Avhich Dr. Hering was.  I
saw a large man Avith long grey hair Avhich fell down  upon his
shoulders, and with a  beard, likewise grey, which reached to his
breast. As I Avatched him, first talking to one and then to an-
other, I almost  Avondered why I  had ventured there.   He was
ahvays the centre of a group of interested  doctors.   Presently he
turned to one of the tables, which fortunately was near where I
stood, and  took  some bread and cheese.  Now was my opportu-
nity ; I stepped  before him  and announced my name.   I Avon-
dered  how I should be received.  All at once he  laid down his
bread  and cheese and taking both my  hands he  said; " O, Dr.
Boyce, I am  glad to  see you," and  calling his daughter, cried,
"Here, Odelia, is Dr. Boyce; keep him  until all these go aAvay;
I want to talk Avith him." , Odelia fulfilled her father's desire, and
gave me my first  introduction to limburger cheese.  I have always
thought that she and Mrs. Conrad Wesselhoeft, Avho Avas her com-
panion for  that  evening, must have enjoyed the  scene  when  I
first essayed the  eating of some of this cheese.   It was  made up
into the most  inviting  little balls,  ornamented  with greens.  Dr.
Hering again took up his bread and cheese and began to eat, and
following his  example I took one  of these beautiful little  balls
and a piece  of  bread.  The balls looked so nice and withal so
small,  that I  put the Avhole of one into my mouth and  began to
cheAV.  Imagine  me standing before Dr. Hering with this in my
mouth, trying to hold it and at the same time Avishing to  keep
him from turning to some one else, and you can have some faint
idea of my  first experience with limburger cheese.   I was finally
obliged to  turn  away from him behind  the neighboring  bushes 
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and spit it out.  On turning back again I caught a glimpse of
tAvo pairs of eyes  set in countenances convulsed with  laughter.
This Avas my first introduction to Dr. Hering and limburger
cheese.   I was Avith him until  late in the night and nearly all
the next day, and  the next, and so on until I Avas ashamed to
take up  any more of his time,  and excused myself on the plea
that I must go home.  In about one month another great calam-
ity seemed impending.  My eldest daughter Avas taken Avith diph-
theria.  It went on to the croupy stage.   This Avas when I had
never seen a case recover in Avhich the larynx  had  become in-
vaded.  The disease first shoAved itself on November 1.  You all
know hoAV  the disease progresses, and how anxious Ave  all are
when we have such cases to treat.  This case progressed  until
the eleventh day,  slowly but surely getting worse, when I wrote
to Dr. Hering, giving minutely the  symptoms and condition,
saying that on the thirteenth day, Avhen I  knew he Avould  have
my letter, I  would telegraph him  how the  case Avas, if alive.
This I did, and soon had the reply, " give  Lachesis."   The case
began to mend  from this  time, and finally recovered entirely.
   In  December, 1863, another  claim came to  me in my imme-
diate family.  To give  a  correct account of this case I must copy
it  as reported at the time:  " A child of tAventy-one months, with
light hair, blue eyes and light complexion, took cold on Christmas
day.  During the night  of the 26th  there Avas feArer and rapid
respiration.   At  11 a.m. December the 27th, the child had a
spasm lasting fifteen minutes.   From this time until January
8th there Avas continued fever, greatly increased at night, Avith a
pulse of 150.  The respirations were 70 per minute on actual count,
and at no time were they less.  Generally there Avas a red spot
on one cheek, Avhich frequently  changed sides.   When one cheek
was red  the  other  Avas generally pale.  All  this  time  the left
lung Avas impervious to air.  Auscultation revealed slight bron-
chial respiration but no vesicular murmur.  The right lung was
not implicated; there Avas constant cough,  yet much increased at
night.   The case  had gradually but surely got Avorse, until the 
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8th of January, Avhen the right lung began to be affected.  This
day the child  became uneasy and restless, throwing itself in  all
directions and into all positions in its efforts to get breath.  The
face grew dark; there was constant spasmodic  cough Avith  la-
bored breathing; the little thing in its agony striking  its  mother
for controlling it at all.  When it fell asleep  for a feAv -seconds the
throat became so dry that a condition resembling croup came on,
and all the sufferings Avere increased.   This fearful condition Avas
rapidly hurrying the little sufferer to its grave.   All the  promi-
nent remedies for the condition had been given, including Lach-
esis 200th, Avith no result.   At this juncture Lachesis 12th (three
pellets) Avas given  dry on the  tongue; immediately (the  pellets
had not entirely dissolved on the tongue) the cough  stopped and
the breathing Avas relieved for  four hours.   At the end  of this
time the cough gradually returned Avith  all  the  sufferings (in a
diminished degree) Avhen another dose of Lachesis 12th produced
the same decided relief, which  lasted sixteen hours.   Four doses
in tAvelve hours so changed the  condition that  the child  slept
nearly all  night, and the air  again passed freely to all parts of
the before obstructed lung."
   During the autumn  of 1863, and up to January, 1864, there
seemed to have been some severe sickness nearly all the  time in
my own family, and twice during that time had Lachesis  helped
me out.  In the summer of 1864 I again visited Dr. Hering.   I
was received Avith the same cordiality, and made at home at his
house.  At this time the old faculty of the Homoeopathic Medical
College of Pennsylvania, had become tired of bearing the  burden
imposed upon it.  The trustees of the college offered this  charge
to Dr. Hering, or at least so that Dr. Hering associated Avith his
friends, might have control and direction of it.  They accepted the
offer, and associated themselves together  and formed a new fac-
ulty, Avhich gave its first course of lectures during the Avinter of
1864-65.   Drs. Hering, Lippe, Guernsey and Raue avcic profes-
sors in the college, and  Dr. Hering invited me  to attend the
course of lectures given that winter.  This I accepted.  When  in 
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October I presented myself at his door, ready to folloAV his instruc-
tions, he said to me, "Now, here  you are  at  home ;  come every
day at three o'clock in  the afternoon and take  coffee Avith me.
At this hour I have my noonday rest and I  allow no one to disturb
me."  Every day at three o'clock found me at his house where I
spent this hour with him.  All this time he did the talking, and
spoke of Homoeopathy, and almost everything else.  It finally
came about that every evening found  me at Dr. Hering's house,
Avhere I ahvays met some one  or more of  the above-named  pro-
fessors, and often all of them.   There I spent the Avinter, virtually
in association Avith  Drs. Hering, Lippe,  Raue, and  Guernsey.
These four were like school-boys learning their lessons.  Every
night they met at Dr. Hering's house and  related the experiences
of the da3r,  and Avhen any neAV result was reached  they all noted
it, and Dr.  Hering recorded it in his manuscripts.
   A close friendship Avith these men Avas  begun in consequence
of the publication in May and June in the American Homoeopathic
Review, a periodical which all these Avere interested in maintain-
ing, of a  minute account of all the results I had obtained by the
administration of Lachesis as  a  curative  agent, up to this time.
Those of you Avho  remember  the  controversy which was at  that
time going on  as  to Avhether  there was any  remedial virtue in
Lachesis, can appreciate the  pleasure with Avhich this publica-
tion was  received by these men, all of whom were  positive, both
from having helped  prove it and from using it in practice,  that
it Avas a great curative agent.  Hempel had fulminated  his ana-
themas against it, declaring it  inert.   Others  had condemned it
in every respect.  This report detailed cases in actual experience,
where such  wonderful results were obtained  that no one could
make any answer to them except he said, " I don't believe him."
I stood ready to prove every case and bring the Avitnesses, before
any court, and take their sworn statements to  the truth of  Avhat
I had written.  Dr. Hering felt and ahvays said that this  was the
turning point with Lachesis, and at once called  me the man  who
saved it.  Often, as I came  into his house, he would  cry out, 
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" Here comes the man who saved Lachesis."  He loved to tell
me about the capture of the snake, and how he took the poison
and how he  had proved it.   We were to go to the Academy of
Natural Sciences together and see the original snake.
   What great  results often  follow small affairs.  In  this case
the publication of Avhat  seemed to me  only an ordinary report
of cases  cured, Avas folloAved by the life-long friendship and even
gratitude of one of the greatest benefactors of the human  race,
for so I consider the discoverer of a remedy Avhich will produce
such wonderful curative results as  Lachesis does.
   During this Avinter Avhich I spent in Philadelphia, and so much
of the time at his house, just at Christmas, I received a message
from  home that Mrs. Boyce Avas  severely sick, and that I  must
go home at once.  On my arrival I found a case of typhoid-pneu-
monia of. a serious nature.  After studying the case carefully I
gave Phosphorus, but feeling anxious I telegraphed to Dr.  Her-
ing the condition,  and again received help from  him.   He was
ever ready to do anything in  his poAver for any one Avho suffered.
In about ten  days I Avas able to return and finish  the Avinter.
   Another circumstance  shows the constancy of Dr.  Hering's
friendship.  Sometime before the commencement of the  college
I Avished to go home, but this  Dr. Hering did not want.  He said,
" You have been here so far, noAV stay to the commencement." On
commencement day Dr.  Hering invited me to accompany the
faculty and sit on the platform. When the ceremony of conferr-
ing the degree of the college Avas concluded by the president, and
each recipient of a diploma had been given a bouquet of floAvers,
I noticed that Mrs. Hering  had another bouquet and Avondered
why it had not been given to  some one.  I also noticed  that the
dean of the faculty had another sheep-skin, but  had no  idea that
this had any significance for me.  But soon the dean stepped out
upon the platform and began to speak.  I heard my name called,
and in the  confusion which folloAved, I managed to stand up and
hear whatever of his speech I could. The purport of it was that
the faculty of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania 
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had unanimously voted me the special degree of the college, and
that the association with me through the winter had been such as
to give them great pleasure at this time in conferring the degree
upon  me.  Then Mrs. Hering gave me the bouquet which I had
noticed in her hand,  and then came  the congratulations of  the
different members of  the faculty, and  then I  Avas  glad to get  out
of the Hall.
   Altogether this  was the happiest and most instructive Avinter
I ever passed.  So many memories cluster about these men and
those Avhom I met at  Dr. Hering's, that I must stop and think of
them.  There Avas our  noble  Dunham, our  Damascene P. P.
Wells, our loving  Jeanes, our lion-hearted  Lippe, our  belo\red
Raue, and our  accurate  Guernsey.   Drs.  Dunham,  Gardner,
Jeanes, and now  Father  Hering are gone.  Those Avho are left of
the old guard are Avell worthy of our love and respect, and as Ave
drop a tear upon the  graves of those Avho are  gone, let us not  fail
to cherish a warm love  for those Avho are left to bear aloft  the
standard  of pure Homoeopathy.  Many times since 1865 I  have
visited Dr. Hering, and Avas ahvays received with the same warm-
hearted Avelcome.  These interviews were ahvays full of  instruc-
tion and  friendship.  I  wish  I  could  describe the many remin-
iscences I retain of  him as I remember them, but this I cannot
do.  I can only  do the  best I can, and  Avith your patience and
indulgence I will give you a few of the incidents Avhich occurred
during these visits subsequent to 1865.
   For  several years after 1865  every summer I  visited  Dr.
Hering, and Avas always as warmly welcomed as before.  In  his
home, (a double  house, Nos. 112 and 114 North Twelfth St.) on
the first floor, beside the kitchen and the laundry, were four rooms.
The two front rooms  were his reception rooms.  The north room
was the ladies room  and the south his ordinary business room.
This last  was merely  evenly divided across from betAveen the tAvo
windoAvs by a couple  of desks, behind one of which he stood Avith
pen in hand ready  to note  doAvn the symptoms or to look up  the
remedy, the other desk was for his secretary.   Many a time I 
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have seen the  space  in front of these desks full of patients and
then even extending out into the hall, and, in fact, all over the
lower part of the house.  Then behind his desk he stood passing
upon one and then another until all Avere served, then he would
go out and see patients until all these were seen.   The  other tAVO
rooms on the first floor Avere respectively a dining room and his
reception  room  for visitors.  This room Avas  about 20x30  feet;
on two sides Avere shelves full of books; on the west end were
windows; at the east end  Avere folding  doors separating it from
the ladies' reception room.  Over these doors was a portrait  of
the original serpent  from which Avas taken the Lachesis.   As I
remember it, half erect, Avith its body coiled and mouth open, it
seemed a formidable reptile.   I have often Avished that I had a
photograph  of it.  In my office is a representation of the  South
American lance-headed Aiper  Avhich a water-color artist  made
for me  from the description in Jahr's " Pharmacopoeia," but it
does not resemble  this portrait which  Dr. Hering  had painted.
People often come into my office and, after looking at my picture
with a shudder, say : " How can you bear to have that ugly thing
here?"  Ah!  that, to them ugly thing is to me a thing of beauty.
I never tire of looking at it.   As  I  look at it I seem  to see one
of my children, if not tA\o, who Avere saved by Lachesis, and as I
continue to  look I see here one  and there one who only for this
serpent Avould have  passed over  to the majority.  I  Avent there
almost daily, and rejoice that Dr. Hering lived to introduce this
remedy into practice.   Once  when  I  visited him there  Avas a
stranger who ansAvered  the  bell when I called  and avIio ushered
me into his reception room.   There were several patients  there
when I entered.   He took no notice of me whatever, but Avent  on
Avith his examinations and prescriptions until he  got through.
During all  this  time I sat there  watching him, but he did not
show that he had ever knoAvn me.  But when  the last patient
passed out and my turn came, he said, "come in our room, I can't
see you here."  He wanted  to hear something about Lachesis.
During the time I sat in his  reception room  he would not allow 
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himself to be diverted from  his purpose, even so far as to recog-
nize me, but kept steadily on until he had made his prescription
for the last one, Avhen he immediately dismissed all from his mind,
and gave  himself up to friendship.   I really thought he had for-
gotten me and  said so.   " No," he said, " I never  let one thing
interfere Avith another."  At one time Avhen I  had called early in
the morning I found him in his room Avhere the manuscripts are
kept.   This room is on the second floor over  his business room.
It Avas here that he shut himself up and generally admitted no
visitors.   This  room Avas full of  books and articles Avhich  he
wished for his own  private study.  At one end Avas an iron safe
for special manuscripts, and this Avas full.  Dr. Dunham Avas a
prized friend and a frequent visitor in this room.  He once said
Jhat his highest ambition Avould be gratified if he could but edit
Dr. Hering's manuscripts.  I  am not  sure whether I heard Dr.
Dunham  say this, but,  if not, it  came direct from him to me
through his next friend, Dr. H. M. Smith.  It Avas  in this room
where Dr. Hering went in the morning to write and study.  As
soon as he waked he would hurry on his pantaloons, and maybe
a vest or not, just as he  happened to be in a hurry or not, and
here  he would  sit until Mrs. Hering came in to advise him to
get ready to see his patients.  He never seemed to know Avhen
it Avas time to get  ready for the day's business.   On this  par-
ticular morning when I  Avas  in  this  room Mrs.  Hering came
with  a bowl of water and some toAvels for his toilet.  When he
came to  change  his night-dress  for his day-shirt  I  thought  it
time for  me  to retire, and Avas about  to pass out of the room.
" 0 don't go,"  he said, " I am  not a Avoman."  I remained until
his toilet Avas completed and then we went doAvn  to his business
office. He had an apparatus Avith which he could prepare coffee
in this room and sometimes did so.   I have supposed  that he
often did  this, but do not know.   His mind Avas constantly occu-
pied,  and he was either talking, writing or listening.  He Avas a
good  listener if one had anything to  say  of any value.  I Avell
remember the first time I saw  him to have  any conversation with 
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him.  I happened to speak of an effect produced by Euphrasia
on the nasal mucous membrane  and some use of this remedy in
measles.  At once out came his pencil and  paper and doAvn it
went, subsequently to appear in his portfolios,  if finally approved.
He ahvays carried Avith him tablets of paper,  about  three by
four inches in size, on which he Avrote all he  observed  or heard.
On these tablets he  also noted his  cases.   I  don't think I ever
saAV him Avhen he felt too weary to tell something Avhich would
help others in Homoeopathy.  I don't remember that he was ever
the first to say good-night.
  The great desire of his heart, through all the time I knew him,
Avas to publish a complete Materia  Medica.   During the winter
I spent Avith him he tried to consummate this wish and issued a
prospectus for publishing the Avork, both in German and English,
in the same book.  He offered it  at the exact cost of printing and
paper for five thousand  copies.  Some money  Avas raised for
this  purpose, hoAV much I do not knoAV   Although this project
fell to the ground, I knoAV that he was happy in making the effort.
Those Avho sent the  first instalment of five dollars had  their
choice either to take the money back or a copy of Gross' Com-
parative Materia Medica, a Avork Avhich he translated; I presume
they all took the book.  Later he made another attempt to get
out his  Materia  Medica,  in a periodical, and through this he
issued several pathogeneses in the Am. Journal of Hom. Materia
Medica.  This came to an end  all  too soon.   At last the desire
of his heart was about to be gratified, and his " Guiding Symp-
toms" began to make its appearance under such  auspices that a
certainty had been reached.   And noAV, instead of the enterprise
falling through  and thus disappointing him, he passed away.
Like Moses on the mount viewing the promised  land  which he
was not to enter, Dr. Hering at  last had a view  of the consum-
mation of that Avhich he had been looking for for so many years.
This Avork is  in loving hands, and it Avill be  completed, I hope,
before long.   His expression to  me about this work Avas full of
enthusiasm,  and  Avas, " Avhen this  comes out  what  a grand 
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thing it Avill be.   Nothing Avhich has ever been published can
compare  with it."  What  a life his was!  A life of desire  to
benefit others.   Laboring on  even up  to  the  last hour  of his
life.   If I  Avere to be  asked  what was the chief trait  in  his
character, I should say that it  was a desire to aid his fellows, and
Avith this a perfect confidence in those whom he trusted.   It will
seem presumptuous in me to attempt to  give an estimate of how
much Dr. Hering  knew, since this Avill be told  so much better
than I can do it by his many associates.  I only knew that there
seemed to be no subject which he did not appear to understand,
and frequently  Avhen Avith him he would start out to talk upon
his favorite theme, Homoeopathy, and from this he Avould pass to
some other—perhaps music—Avhere he  seemed  equally at home.
Once, I met at his home  a celebrated opera  bass singer, Carl
Formes, I think, and as I listened  to their conversation I could
see that Dr. Hering was  as conversant with  operas  and  opera
music  as  Avas  this professional  singer.  I well  remember this
meeting, for I was surprised to hear Dr. Hering talk and to hear
Carl Formes listen to him.   Afterwards, Avhen I Avas listening to
the singing, in  opera, of this  artist, I found myself  Avondering
whether Dr.  Hering might not have been a success as an opera
singer if his patliAvay  had led  him to it.  That same evening
when we Avere alone together, he  gave me, as I noAV see it,  about
all the information I  possess in regard  to opera.  He  kneAV
the history of  all the artists  Avho  were successes in  their line.
At times  he Avould talk of the future life and Avhat  he  ex-
pected in it.   It Avas, to him, only a step in progress.  We are
to take up our  life and go on  in  the  future just Avhere Ave lay it
down here.  Our pursuits  are to be the same, only the incum-
brances will be  removed. I don't think I ever heard him hesitate
in this regard.   He seemed to have reflected  upon this subject,
and to have  settled it  in his mind just as definitely as  he had
any other subject Avhich he undertook to study out.  He believed
that we carry with us our preferences and our distastes, and that
we will exercise them there as  here.   I have  no doubt  he  ex- 
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pected to gather his students about him and to go on increasing
in knowledge forever.
   In  1876, at the time of the World's Convention, there Avas a
large number of physicians present from all the States and from
abroad.  Dr. Hering's time  Avas very much taken up  by calls
from a great many of these strangers, all of Avhom wished to see
Dr. Hering.  I began to fear that I should not enjoy a visit to
him, Avhen, on the day of Dr. Lippe's dinner at the Union League
Club  House, Dr. Hering  said to me, " Come here this afternoon
and go Avith me to the dinner, I shall not go unless you go with
me."   I Avas told that he seldom went out  alone noAV, and as he
desired me  to go Avith him for fear that he should fail to see
me at any other time, I did not fail to go.  We took  the cars
on Twelfth  St., at his door, and rode  to Walnut St., Avhere  we
took other cars and rode to Broad St.  near the Club House.   It
rained hard all the time, but this  did  not disturb him.  He
talked all the Avay about the first Avinter when the neAV faculty
lectured and of the class, all of Avhom he seemed to look upon
as his children.  Some of these he met at the dinner table.  He
seemed very happy  all the evening but was glad to get home
again.  When I left him he  said,  " Noav Avhen you  come to
Philadelphia again Ave will call on  Dr.  Lippe together, and I
shall  not go until you go Avith me."  I saw  him but once more
at this time and then only for  a few minutes.   He said, " There
are so many  here uoav to see me that I have no time for you, but I
am hungry to see you just the same."   There was always a chair
at the table for  me, Avhere I afterwards  learned  to like cheese,
but I did not Avant it in tAvo ounce doses Avithout bread.  I can
vouch for the flavor of limburger cheese Avhen  taken  in small
quantities and as a flavor to bread or crackers.
   In 1877 I was at his house again, when  he invited several of
his friends to supper Avith me in the  garden.   He seemed more
fond than ever to call around him the younger members of the
profession, and on this afternoon I think there were at  least ten
or tAvelve.  He Avas particularly pleased  that so many came  to
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see him.   When he  invited me  to come to this supper he said,
" I want them to see  the man Avho saved Lachesis."  After they
were gone he talked about the  first time Ave  met in this same
garden and how unexpected the meeting was.  He had received
my letter  asking to be allowed to call  on him fdr instruction in
Homoeopathy, only a day or two before.   He said  that this had
been his chief pleasure in life, meaning  the  imparting to others
whatever he kneAV.  We expected then to make our call on Dr.
Lippe but were prevented.   This called up the time when Dr.
Lippe  Avas very sick Avith typhoid fever and his visit to see
him, Avhen he took  down  the Materia Medica  and looked it
through and found the remedy in Silicea, Avhich soon changed
the Avhole  condition, and Dr. Lippe Avas saved to Homoeopathy.
When  I  left  him he  said,  " Come again next year."   I said
yes,  and  I  fully expected  to have done  so  but  I  did not,
and I never saAV him again.   In  writing  these reminiscences I
have given our association as it recurred to  me.  On reading it
over I  am forced  to  wonder whether his friendship for me was
any closer than for others.  I sometimes feel that I wTas more
than ordinarily a favorite, but when I recall  the memory of those
AA'hom I have met at his house I can not pride  myself  on it.  I
will not undertake to name these others, but  as I remember what
Dr. Hering said of them I can but think that had I not wanted
instruction in Homoeopathy I should never have found the way
to his heart, and so must give the honor to Homoeopathy instead
of to myself.
  This morning a postman  brought me a letter Avith the post-
mark Philadelphia.  On opening it I  read, " Enclosed I send
you a  lock of father's  hair."  Hoav glad I  Avas to get it I will
not undertake to  tell, but I will  say that I  shall cherish it as a
memento of that dear old man aa4io for so many years honored me
with his warm friendship.

   Dr.  John K. Lee surrendered the chair at this  stage of
the proceedings  to  Dr. Henry  N. Guernsey and addressed
the meeting as follows: 
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  We  have listened with  intense interest to the naration of the
personal reminiscences of  Dr. Hering and been touched by the
glowing eulogies upon  his life, and it may seem superfluous and
redundant to pay a further tribute to his revered memory.  But
whilst he has been extolled for the greatness of his intellect, his
profound erudition, his untiring research and his devotion to his
profession, still the portraiture is incomplete because it does not
include a delineation of his  moral qualities.  And these, accord-
ing to their development, either add grace and  dignity to  intel-
lectual endoAvments and link man to his Creator, or else dim the
splendor of his achievements, tarnish the  lustre of his fame and
spread a pall of darkness over his grave.
  In this respect, I am happy to affirm, that it is  not necessary
to prevaricate  or  enfold  Dr. Hering in the  mantle of charity,
since his moral nature expanded in  beautiful  harmony Avith his
mind, and  blending, they reflected  each  the glory of the  other
and formed a well rounded and symmetrical character, always
grand,  because it was underlaid by simplicity and  fidelity to
truth.
  A single instance in his history, related  to me by one who was
admitted to his confidence and  privacy, will illustrate the eleva-
tion of his moral sentiments, his magnanimity and his abhorrence
of the least departure from the path  of rectitude  and honor.
Some years ago, says  the relator, during a conversation Avith Dr.
Hering, he remarked, " J----is stopping  with me.  He is a man
of wonderful  ability, but I have lost  all regard for him. At
supper last evening, in a burst of feeling,  he said,  ' 0 how badly
it makes one feel to be convinced of error!' I felt indignated at
such a sentiment and  replied, No!  not if he be moved by proper
motives.  The only feeling of an honest  man should be, Iioav glad
I am to learn the truth; and from that  moment I lost all regard
for the man."   The  thought here  expressed is so lofty, grand
and pure, that I will  not  impair its force by verbal  comments,
but leave it to penetrate your minds  and influence  your lives. 
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   Dr. Joseph C. Guernsey here arose and addressed the
chair as follows:
   Mr. President:—I do not rise to eulogize Dr. Hering, or to
recount his many good works in the advancement of our cause.
There are many here to-night Avho can do, and have already
done, more justice to that than I.
   I merely wish to present an interesting memento relative to his
medical  graduation.  It is a translation from the Latin of the
subjects of his Thesis, Avhich he defended in public  disputation
before graduating  at the University of Wurzburg,  in the year
1826.

   The following preamble  is printed  in Latin on the
cover of the Dissertation:
   Johann Lucas Sehoenlein, Dean pro tempore of the gra-
cious order  of physicians, Doctor of Philosophy, Medicine
and Surgery, and public professor  in ordinary, etc., etc.,
with all due courtesy, invites the noble vice-rector of the
Academy, the senate  fathers, the professors of all grades,
the academic citizens, finally men of letters and the pa-
trons of letters, to a public disputation, to be held  March
22d, 1826, at  9 a.m., by the very  noble,  illustrious and
learned man, Mr. Constantine Hering, Saxon, under the
presidency  of Caritanus  Textor, Doctor  of Philosophy,
Medicine and Surgery, Aulic  Councillor to the August
King of Bavaria, and public professor in ordinary, etc.,
etc., for the  purpose of duly obtaining the highest honors
in Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics. 
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             Inaugural Dissertation.
                On Psychic Remedies.
                       Theses.
                         I.
              Springs are living fossils.
                         II.
      I hold that there are nerves in the placenta.
                         III.
The "ganglion petrosum"is to the  ear what the "gan-
          glion ophthalmicum " is to the eye.
                         IV.
The olfactory, optic and acoustic nerves are apophyses of
       the cerebrum and cerebellum, not nerves.
                         V.
            The old man is the perfect man.
                         VI.
Materia Medica  is to Hahnemann what Pathology was
                   to Hippocrates.
                        VII.
               Such as life is,  is disease.
                        VIII.
The  rational system  is not merely the better, but the
                only one in pathology.
                         IX.
              I deny psychical diseases.
                         X.
       Any disease may be removed at any stage. 
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                         XL
     No one has yet appeared to refute Hahnemann.
                         XII.
Homoeopathy is heterostheny, and its fundamental law:
                  Contraria contrariis.
                        XIII.
In the struggle of vital forces as a foundation rests every
                     vital effect.
                        XIV.
    There is only one normal position for the foetus.
                         XV.
The resurrection of the dead  is  the highest ideal  of
                     medical art.
                        XVI.
Not to deliver  individual men from particular diseases,
     but to deliver the whole human race from the
          cause of disease, is the ultimate goal
                  of medical science.

                Inaugural Subjects.
                I.—President's Question.
       The checking of traumatic hemorrhages.
                II.—Candidate's Subject.
       THE MEDICINE OF  THE FUTURE.

  Dr. Charles  Mohr then rose  and  made the following
remarks:
  " I approach the subject of anything relating to the life and
Avork of Dr. Hering with a  great  deal of diffidence.  But  on 
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this occasion  I cannot, consistently with  my sense of duty, neg-
lect saying a word or tAvo in regard to the manner in which Dr.
Hering treated the stranger student and younger practitioner of
Homoeopathy.  I remember the first time I ever saw Dr. Hering.
It Avas one evening after I had attended a lecture in this room
and I Avas somewhat perplexed about a case I was treating and I
thought I Avould like to hear Avhat he had to say in relation to
Avhat had best be done.  I rang his door bell, was shown into his
office, and when I told him Avhat my purpose was in seeing him
he at once extended his hand and gave mine a hearty shake and
said " sit doAvn," and after he had Avaited upon two or  three pa-
tients  he Avas  ready to hear my story, which I related.   I think
it was more  than  an hour before  I Avas  able  to leave  him.
He gave me his opinion as to the nature of the case and  what I
might  expect and what in his judgment was  the proper remedy,
and I wondered that the man, without the least idea of  receiving
any remuneration, should  take so much time and trouble  to give
me, an utter stranger, the  knoA\ ledge I desired; and Avhen I rose
to say my good-bye and express my thanks he extended his hand
again  and, shaking mine with a hearty grip, he said in  that tone
which after that became very familiar to me, "Well, come again !"
And I did go again and again, and I  never  saw Dr. Hering in
my life that I did not learn something which has profited me and
profited those Avho came Avithin the influence of my professional
life.
  I saAv Dr. Hering for the last time just two days before his death.
He was reclining on his couch in his study Avith books and papers
piled about him, showing that he had been hard at Avork before
he lay doAvn  to take a  needed rest.  My business then  Avas  to
see him in relation to a neAV subscriber to " The Guiding  Symp-
toms," his life-AVork.  When I told him that it Avas necessary for
him to sign a paper, as president of the Society that was  pub-
lishing his Avork, he got  up  like a new man  to affix his signa-
ture, apparently  delighted that one other man in the Homoe-
opathic profession appreciated his work  sufficiently to  assist in 
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supplying the means to further its publication.  As was his wont
on such occasions he began to talk about his Magnum optis and
about the prospects of the American Homoeopathic Publishing
Society;  and inasmuch as several of the speakers this evening
have referred  to  that  Avork, and of its completion, I feel im-
pelled as one of the editors to  state here that  it is the purpose
of Drs.  Raue,  Knerr  and  myself  to  give  the  profession the
Guiding Symptoms just as Dr. Hering would have given it had
he lived to complete it.
  On this occasion we may naturally ask, what can be  done to
perpetuate the  memory of Dr.  Hering?  We may  publish  a
memorial volume;  we may build  a  monument  of the finest
marble; but  neither of these Avould be so grateful to our departed
friend—if things transpiring here are known in the higher life—
as the publication of the whole of the work on which he Avas en-
gaged  almost hourly for the last fifty years.   In  the  Guiding
Symptoms Dr. Hering has perpetuated his OAvn memory; but the
great bulk of the work is in manuscript, and I think this a fitting
time to  appeal to the profession in the United States and the
world by generous  subscriptions to  help  the editors to publish
the work as  Dr. Hering Avould  have  been pleased to complete it.
I do not  knoAV what more fitting thing the profession  could do
than that; and besides that it must  be remembered that the
work is a legacy to the Doctor's family.
  He said to  me  one  day: " Before the tenth volume is out I
shall not be  Avith you.  I do not know whether I shall live to see
the completion of another volume, but I feel  that  the  Guiding
Symptoms will be finished, and, perhaps,  from my place in
heaven, I may peep through a  little  hole and see that my work
is Avell  done."
  Now even such  an expression as that, so simple and  childlike,
shoAvs that his whole heart and soul Avere wrapped up in the com-
pletion of that work, and I ask  again, what thing can we do
better than to get  out of the shelves of his study the materials he
has collected for the last fifty years, and give them  to the pro-
fession  and the world, for the benefit of suffering humanity. 
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  There being no other  speakers, a motion made on be-
half of the Memorial Committee, that they be discharged,
was duly carried.
  It was next resolved to appoint a Committee to solicit
subscriptions to defray the expenses of publishing a Me-
morial Volume, to contain a biographical sketch of  Dr.
Hering, and the transactions of the meetings held in all
parts of the world in his memory.  On motion the liter-
ary executors of Dr. Hering, namely, Drs. C.  G. Raue,
C. B. Knerr, and  C. Mohr, were appointed to constitute
this Committee, and they were given full power to edit
and publish the volume  as to them seemed best.
  On motion the meeting then adjourned.
        ST. LOUIS  MEMORIAL SERVICES.
  In compliance with the request of the Memorial Com-
mittee, and under the inspiration of such an appropriate
and beautiful thought, something over four hundred of
the best people of St. Louis met at Pickwick Hall on Sun-
day evening, October 10th, 1880, to listen to the Hering
Memorial Services given under the auspices of the St.
Louis Society of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons.
  Music softened and sweetened the air.   The  hush of
prayer pervaded every heart; the muses  sang in lyric
and heroic verse, and oratory, in all the luxuriant finish
of classic diction, hung garlands of immortelles all along
the wondrous career of the hero  whose memory it was
meet to honor. 
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  The meeting was called to order by W. A. Edmonds,
M.D., President of the St. Louis Society of Homoeopathic
Physicians and  Surgeons,  when  a Quartette:  " Come
Gracious Spirit" (E. Marzo), was sung by Mrs. 0. Girard,
Mrs. J. E. Mills, Prof. Allman, and H. Blickhan.   Miss
Lizzie Garriott, accompanist.
  After an invocation by Rev. John Snyder, Dr. Charles
Gundelach read the following biographical sketch:

  Constantine Hering was  born in Oschatz, Saxony, on the first
day of January, 1800.  From his earliest age he exhibited  an
insatiable  thirst for knowledge, and many of  his boyhood's ear-
liest hours Avere spent in Avandering over his native hills explor-
ing the works of nature.  From 1811  to 1817, Avhile  attending
the classical school at  Zittau, he made a large and valuable col-
lection of minerals, herbs, skulls and bones of animals.  His
medical studies were pursued  at the Surgical Academy of Dres-
den.   Later he entered the University of Leipzig.   Here  the
celebrated surgeon,  T. Henry  Robbi, who was his preceptor,
made  him, in  1820, his assistant.  While  thus employed, Dr.
Robbi  was requested by the founder of a  publishing house to
prepare a work that  in its thorough  exposure of  the  system,
should  utterly uproot  Homoeopathy from the land.  Dr. Robbi
declined the enterprise, but referred  to young Hering as one
perfectly  competent for the  task.   Hering  accepted,  and  in
preparing himself Avas compelled to consult the works of Hahne-
mann, Avhich, after a diligent research and study, convinced him
of the truth of the  law,  "Similia Similibus Curantur."   He
pursued this neAV study Avith  characteristic  ardor  against  the
counsels of his teachers and the entreaties of his friends.   An
incident Avhich occurred about  this time contributed largely to
the decision at Avhich he had arrived.  He had received a dis-
secting wound which resisted the utmost efforts of the best phy- 
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sicians and  surgeons.  His hand Avas  in such  a condition that
amputation Avas advised as the only hope of saving  his life.  In
this exigency the treatment Avith Arsenicum, administered by  a
homoeopathic friend, proved eminently  successful and  saved the
limb.   Dr. Hering  then determined to devote his life  to Homoe-
opathy.  In 1825 he Avas enabled to prosecute his studies at the
University of Wurzburg, Avhere he graduated the next year on
the 23d day of March, with honor, defending at  the same time
his chosen thesis, "De medicina futura," thus shoAving no conceal-
ment  of his sympathy Avith the vieAVS of Hahnemann.
   In  the folloAving year he Avas appointed instructor  in mathe-
matics and natural  science in Blochmann's  Institute in Dresden,
and after remaining there for several months he Avas  appointed
a member of the royal commission  to make researches and  col-
lections in zoology in Surinam, South America.   During his stay
there  he continued his study of Homoeopathy and practiced it to
some  extent, besides Avriting some articles for the " Homoeopathic
Archives."  This latter proceeding Avas brought to the notice of
the King,  Avho directed Dr. Hering to confine himself to the
duties of his appointment and let outside matters alone.  By re-
turn  mail  Dr. Hering sent  in a report of his  accounts in full,
and resigning his  official position, began the practice of medi-
cine in Paramaribo.  A few years later he sailed for home,  and
on the  Avay  landed in  Philadelphia, in 1833.   Here he found
that a good introduction of Homoeopathy had been made by the
late Dr. George H. Bute in  the  previous year, during  the  epi-
demic of cholera.   He Avas persuaded to stay, and soon acquired
a large  and lucrative practice.   Dr. Wm. Wesselhceft, who  had
established Homoeopathy on a firm footing in several counties in
Pennsylvania, made  Dr. Hering's  acquaintance and  proposed
the establishment of a homoeopathic school at Allentown, which
was to be supported by a stock company.  Dr. Hering agreed to
remove to  Allentown and to assist in the school  whenever  a
salary Avas "guaranteed to  him  equal to that of any  first-class
clergyman  in Allentown." 
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  The stock company was formed and the small salary provided,
and Dr. Hering went to Allentown, where he remained two or
three  years.   He  was  made  president  of the Homoeopathic
School, which  was the  first of its kind in  the world, and from
which the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania after-
wards sprung.   Dr.  Hering returned to Philadelphia and has
resided there ever since.  He published a pamphlet on "The
Rise and Progress of Homoeopathy," Avhich had a very extensive
circulation.   In  1846 the Homoeopathic  Medical  College of
Pennsylvania was founded, and Dr. Hering Avas elected Profes-
sor of Institutes and Materia Medica, which he held at intervals
until 1867, when he assisted in founding the Hahnemann Medi-
cal College  of Philadelphia, in  which he held the same chair
until 1869, Avhen he resigned and was made Emeritus Professor.
  Dr.  Hering was  a  member  of  the  Academy  of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, to which institution he presented his
large  zoological collection.  He was one of the  founders  of the
American Institute of  Homoeopathy, and was its first president.
He was  also one of the originators of the American Provers'
Union, instituted August 10th, 1853.
  Dr. Hering's life work was Materia Medica.  He made physio-
logical provings of the most of  our  remedies, introduced many
neAV and very valuable drugs, and  published his remedies and
experiences in different works, and Avas during  all his years of
practice  a  very diligent contributor to the periodical medical
literature in America, as well as in Germany.  Of his publica-
tions should be mentioned his " Domestic Physician," published
in 1835.   This Avork passed  through seven  editions in America,
two in England, thirteen in Germany, and has also been trans-
lated  into  the French,  Spanish, Italian,  Danish,  Hungarian,
Russian and SAvedish languages ;
  The Effects of Snake Poison, 1837 ;
  Suggestions for the Provings of Drugs, 1853 ;
  Amerikanische Arzneipruefungen, 1853-1857 ;
  Translation of Gross' Comparative Materia Medica, 1866; 
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  Analytical Therapeutics, first volume, 1875 ;
  Condensed Materia Medica, t\vo editions, 1877-1879 ; and
  Guiding Symptoms, the third volume of which he began just
prior  to  his  death.  This, his life-Avork,  proposed  to give the
characteristics of every drug used by the homoeopathic profes-
sion.   The  manuscript is in  such shape that  the work can be
completed.
  In person, Dr. Hering had an imposing and dignified appear-
ance.   He Avas tall  and wore spectacles; beard full and hair
long and  curling.  Dr. Hering was married  three  times.   His
first Avife he married in South America, where she died, leaving
one son, Avho now resides in Paramaribo.  While living in Allen-
town  he married a  Philadelphia lady, by whom he had  three
children, only one surviving, a daughter, married and living in
Boston.  His second wife died, and during a visit to  Germany
in 1845 he married the daughter of Dr. Buchheim, a celebrated
allopathic physician, by whom  he  had eight children, six of
whom and their mother survive him.
  Dr. Hering enjoyed good  health until  about  ten years ago,
when, at the ripe age of seventy, he occasionally suffered  from
attacks of asthma.   Even to the last day of his life  he was in
comparatiATe good health, having attended to his  patients during
the day, had retired  later in the evening to his library and Avas
engaged  in  his literary  study, when suddenly he Avas attacked
Avith paralysis of the heart and died, surrounded by his sorrow-
ing family, on Friday evening, July 23d, 1880, in the 81st year
of his age.

   Dr. W. A. Edmonds followed with these remarks:
  We are here, saddened and subdued by bereavement in the
death of our distinguished friend, to condole with each other in
our severe loss, and to pay the  last sad tribute to his blessed
memory.
  In surveying a great and  noble life, like that of  Dr. Hering,
we  very naturally incline to be inquisitive  as  to the peculiar 
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point or quality  of  character  which may have resulted  in so
much usefulness and prominence.
  Undoubtedly the  great beacon light  of his life-Avork and
charm of his character, was his enthusiasm; the enthusiasm of
conviction, and especially his conviction as to the theoretical and
practical truth of Homoeopathy.
  By enthusiasm, Ave understand that particular emotional glow
and  Avarmth of delight experienced upon the  attainment of a
new  knowledge or neAV idea.
  All  of us have greater or less experience of such emotion;
but so soon do we turn aside into the avenues of sordidness and
selfishness, to see  Avhat of gain or position may be made out of
the newly gotten  idea, that the sensation, like  the sparkle and
aroma of the recently uncorked vintage, wastes with the touch
of early use.
  A pure and unalloyed enthusiasm is not found in companion-
ship with avarice, ambition  and  untruthfulness.   The purely
selfish intriguer may be impelled by his desires, to heroic efforts
and deeds of daring, but is ever a stranger to that holy poetic
fire Avhich warmed and illumined the pathway in the life of our
distinguished comrade.  To say, then, that he was enthusiastic, is
to say that he was truthful and loyal to his convictions.
  Peculiarities of organization and modes of life, as before inti-
mated, render enthusiasm with most of us an ephemeral affair.
With  our dear departed friend, this  activity  was in  ceaseless
motion ever present.  He loved the truth for itself, and  for its
usefulness to humanity; he loved it as the young mother loves
her  newly  first-born;   and as  the love grew older, it  grew
stronger and warmer, until in the very last days of a long and
eventful life, it shone with a phosphorescent glow and undimmed
splendor.   His unselfish love  of the truth and devotion to con-
viction Avas " a thing of beauty, a joy forever." With all my
soul  I boAV with reverence and adoration in presence of a life so
resplendent Avith loyalty to truth, or at least that Avhich  he be-
lieved to be true.   Hundreds of practitioners, the country over, 
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evince much of his brain power and  industry, but for want of
his mental  warmth  never approached his eminence.   There
seemed  to be a charm and  magnetism about  this element of
his character, Avhich sent him at a bound away ahead of all
competition.   When  a new  knowledge, or a new truth  had set
his head and heart fairly aglow, he never halted to inquire what
might be the consequence of its adoption;  whether it would
bring gain and position or loss and disparagement. In the earlier
years of his life, he Avas requested by his preceptor, to furnish a
paper in refutation of Homoeopathy.  Most young men under such
circumstances Avould have set to work  in quest of material to
furnish the desired refutation and thereby receive the approba-
tion of  his superior.   But he, with a true nobility of soul, went
straight to the side of Homoeopathy to ascertain Avhat might be
said in its favor, with the result of his  immediate conviction and
conversion, instead of the contemplated refutation.
   At a later period of his life he, with others, was  sent abroad
by his  government for scientific purposes.   Very soon  he was
detected by  one  of his medical  associates in the promulgation
and  practice of Homoeopathy, who at once reported his conduct
to his superiors.   He was ordered  to confine  his  attention to
special objects of his appointment.
   Promptly he closed his portfolio, set his papers and accounts
in order, tendered his resignation, entered upon his life-work in
the teaching and  practice of  his profession; and so continued to
teach and practice, through  good or evil report, praise or dis-
paragement ; living long enough to see the hated heresy a power
in the civilized world, and a boon  to  humanity, in the ills to
which fleshas heir.
   In tracing his life and character, we find a striking parallel to
that of the dramatic  life  of the illustrious Apostle Paul, who
had  but to  know the truth of his convictions  in any  given
premise, and he Avas ready to  brave  all the perils and  hardships
of fire, famine, stripes, imprisonments, shipwreck and martyrdom
in its vindication.   The trials of our friend were less literal and 
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corporeal, but the social and  official ostracism of his early days
Avere scarcely less trying to a sensitive and noble nature.
   Who shall estimate the results of  such a life as  its benign in-
fluence radiates and ramifies down the chambers and  corridors
of time, through ceaseless future ages, until our efforts at com-
prehension are paled and wearied as in an attempt to grasp an
infinity.
   " If a man die, shall he live again ? "  Let  us, our friends, in
this, our hour of bereavement, accept such a  life and character
as a great and mighty revelation in  behalf of the soul's immor-
tality.  The  good Father never made such a life to. go doAvn  in
one eternal night of annihilation.   In the matter  of Avhat we
call his death, Ave recognize the  breaking up of the casket  in or-
der that the jewel may have a neAV setting, to fit it for the glories
and  splendor of the great beyond, where it is destined to glow
and  sparkle  with an ever  increasing  brilliancy,  through the
countless cycles  of an eternity, of which we may talk and write,
but of Avhich our present finite  powers can  have  but a poverty
of expression or appreciation.
   Our friend in  the flesh has gone;  we shall see his face here no
more forever.
   For eighty long Avinters  and summers  did  he continue the
voyage of life, and when his mortality Avent doAvn in the Jordan
of death, he went down as some gallant ship, Avith sails unfurled
and  banners flying,  with the inscription high over all:  " Ho-
moeopathy as a truth once, always and forever."

   Dr. S. B. Parsons prefaced the reading of the following
poem by saying:

  The theme of  this poem was  suggested by an incident in the
life of Dr. Hering, Avhich Avas that, in the early part of his pro-
fessional career in Philadelphia,  he Avas called to attend a  little
girl, an only child, who had  been given up to die by all the phy-
sicians that  had seen her.   Dr. Hering  Avas summoned to the 
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case, not because the parents had any faith in the homoeopathic
mode of practice, but because they had heard of him as a gentle-
man of culture, a man of scientific attainments, and hoped there
might something  be found in his treatment  that Avould restore
their loved one to health.   Dr. Hering's  treatment was success-
ful, and when his little patient Avas out of danger and  able to
talk and laugh with her mother,  the parents overwhelmed  him
Avith expressions of gratitude, complimenting him in the warmest
terms on his skill  and ability, and drew a bright picture of his
future life and the high eminence he would  some day attain in
his profession.  When they had ceased, he thanked them kindly,
and replied: " I am nothing, God is great! "

                Could we draw the veil aside
                  From the night of infant state,
               Mortal-eyes would see the guide—
                  " I am nothing ! God is great! "

               Happy childhood—morn of life—
                  Chasing shadows drawn by fate,
                Knows but faintly in the strife—
                  " I am nothing ! God is great! "

               Ever smiling, sunny  youth,
                  Weaving webs to captivate,
               Then unfolds the spirit's  truth—
                  " I am nothing ! God is great! "

               Resting on the fair mid-land
                  'Tween  the in and  outer gate,
               Budding manhood's thoughts expand—
                  " I am nothing ! God is great! "

               In the bloom of life's bright day,
                  Lurid storms may  devastate;
               Through the darkness beams a ray—
                  " I am nothing! God is great! "

               Nearer draws futurity,
                  Nor asks the penitent to wait:
               Clearer sees maturity—
                  " I am nothing ! God is great! "

               Gently comes life's winter day,
                  When the heart seems desolate ;
               In true faith will be its lay—
                  " I am nothing ! God is great I "
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  The following tribute was paid  by Dr. J. Martin Ker-
shaw:

  As the majestic river passes to the far-off sea beyond, so has
the life of him we have come to honor, gone to the unknown
country.   Like the grand old oak, ever erect and noble, he bore
alike the storms of adversity and the clouds of sunshine, through-
out the scores of years that were his to work and be faithful.
Towering  above his felloAvs, working and waiting for Avhat he
knew Avas truth, he Avas rightfully and indeed a king among men
in his God-like work for humanity.   The truth, the pure, snow-
white, spotless truth Avas that  for which  he  labored and toiled,
from the early spring-time of life, until the frosty winter of old
age  had come upon him, and then, full of years  and full of
honors, he crossed over to that  land the Deity has given to those
who work faithfully and well.  His  priceless treasures he  has
bequeathed to us and to the multitudes of God's sick and suffer-
ing  creatures, in every clime  and  country, and the  world is
richer and better to-day, because Constantine Hering lived and
worked  in  it.  In the quiet city of the dead, Avhere  countless
weary toilers sleep, the sad song of the autumn winds is heard
above the resting place of him for whom we mourn to-night;
but  the earnest  life-work, and more than human deeds of the
great departed, still live for us  and the coming worlds of people.

  Dr.  C. W. Spalding next addressed  the meeting as
follows:

  Mr.  President:  There are   epochs  in human  history  that
are occasioned by the discovery and introduction of new prin-
ciples or laAvs, Avhich in their operation have  a direct relation to
human happiness and the welfare of society.   Not that there is
anything absolutely new;  for all things exist  potentially, in  the
Creator from eternity ; and are called new, Avhen they come into
actual existence in the material universe. 
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  The discovery and announcement of the law  " similia simili-
bus curantur," constitutes such an epoch.  Upon this great basal
verity, has now been  founded a school  of  medicine differing
from  all previous schools, in the adoption,  and application to
practice, of this therapeutic laAV.  The fundamental principles
of medical science are the same in  all schools of medicine; the
differences being chiefly in their systems of therapeutics.
  In order that the beneficent effects of a neAV therapeutic system
should be made available for  the alleviation  of human suffering
by the removal of diseases, it  became necessary  to  develop and
establish by  study and experiment, a system of medication in
agreement thereAvith.  Homoeopathic Materia Medica has arisen
from  this necessity.  The proper presentation, and  the ultimate
establishment of neAV ideas in the  minds  of men, or of  new
methods in  their habits of life, call  into  activity the labors of
a class  of minds peculiarly fitted for the performance of their
definite tasks.  As the knoAvledge  of the discovery of this  neAV
therapeutic  law Avas disseminated,  it arrested the attention of
such medical minds as Avere endoAved with sufficient independence
of thought to alloAv them to be open to conviction; and promi-
nently among these Avas the man whose life, and not whose death,
Ave are uoav  assembled to commemorate.   His first  study of the
neAV system Avas occasioned, Ave are told, by his being assigned to
the duty of  refuting it.  This is not the first time that the indi-
vidual chosen  by his felloAvs  as the one most  capable among
them  of disproving the  neAV  ideas, has become an able instru-
ment  in establishing them upon surer foundations and of spread-
ing among  mankind a better knoAvledge of their  transcendent
merits.
  In  reducing  the neAV law to practice, the great problem  to be
worked out Avas the ascertainment by trial of the specific action
of drugs upon  the  human system, and subsequently the orderly
arrangement of the great mass of experimental  knowledge thus
obtained, into such form as to render it readily  available in the
practice  of  medicine.  For the successful  accomplishment of 
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this important task, it was requisite that individuals peculiarly
qualified by nature and education for this particular work should
devote their lives to its  development and perfection.   In this
arduous  labor, Dr. Hering has spent the best years of his life.
To him,  in very large degree, the homoeopathic physician is in-
debted for the  completeness of our system of medication.  Pa-
tience, industry and untiring perseverance have  been brought to
the work, and if any man is more than any other, entitled  to be
called the apostle of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, that man is
Constantine Hering.

   Dr. J. P. Frohne then spoke as follows:

   The gentlemen who spoke  before  me, have eloquently dwelt
on the merits of the departed as  propagator of Homoeopathy in
this country. Therefore, allow me to also remember his l©ve for
his native country,  of which  especially during  the  Franco-
German war he bore brilliant testimony ;  celebrating the victory
of the German arms most solemnly at his own house.  He thus
manifested that  he was proud of being a native of Germany, of
that country which sent many a great  man  over the ocean to
sow the seeds of German thought and German art among distant
nations.
   The departed has shown his love for his native country, and
his interest  in science by multitudes of articles in  homoeopathic
journals.
   His essays are as  genial  as  they are instructive,  and his
memory is, in due appreciation of his merits, this day celebrated
in the cities of all Germany.   And, Avherever upon the face of
the world Homoeopathy has gained permanent ground, the name
of Constantine Hering will be known and be ever memorable,
since he has by his works secured for himself an immortal name!
   To  but very few of us mortals is it granted to do as much for
suffering  humanity as he has done, for Providence had laid in
him the talents of a true therapeutist as Avell as of an author, of 
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which during  his long life he has made the most salutary use,
saving the lives of thousands Avho in the sense of gratitude now       *
lament his loss.
  The life and works of our Hering ought to be a shining model
for us younger physicians, and may his  memory be everlasting!


   The following  remarks were then made by Dr. Chas.
L. Carriere:

  Grand is the celebration of to-day! The fact  that all homce-
opathists of the world join in a Memorial Service of one so uni-
versally known, esteemed  and beloved as Dr. Constantine Her-
ing makes this celebration  one of the grandest of the kind.   It
is proper, therefore, that on this occasion everything should be
thought of Avhich may add to the honor of our departed friend.
  I  have chosen  to occupy the  few minutes allotted to  me, to
draAV your attention to the fact that Dr. Hering  was not only a
man of great  culture and  a most successful practitioner of the
Healing Art, but in addition to his excellent qualities and his
superiority, he was also on the progressive path as a christian;
not a christian by name only, but one Avho did believe and trust
in Jesus  Christ, our Saviour.  Still, his  faith differed from the
generally  acknoAvledged  doctrines of the church of the past.
As  he left the old school of medicine  and adopted the  doc-
trine of " similia,"  and became  one of the founders of Homoe-
opathy, so he also  left  the old  church  and became a receiver
of the doctrines  of the  NeAV  Jerusalem.   Thus he was one
of the beginners and promoters  of the New Era, both in Medi-
cine and Religion.  A German paper, referring to his departure
from  this world,  says:  "Dr.  Hering  was  made  acquainted
Avith the doctrines of the New Church soon  after his arrival  in
the United  States;  he  received them with warmth  and  zeal;
he was of the opinion that the action of the  homoeopathic reme-
dies  would at some time  be established  by  the doctrine of cor- 
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respondence."  It may be proper here to state that the doctrine
of correspondence is a doctrine of the NeAV Church.   The paper
referred to, also states: " He occasionally mentioned that in  his
house the first German Christmas tree,  in the whole large city of
Philadelphia,  spread its  brilliancy."    The Avords, " German
Christmas tree," were probably used because it is claimed that
the Germans have introduced that custom in  this country.
  In looking at Dr. Hering as a medical man and as a religious
man, Ave  see that he was not  led by a blind faith,  he  was not
bound to the doctrines of his predecessors, because they were  be-
lieved by them, or for  the reason  that they were the  old and
acknoAvledged doctrines of the world;  he would investigate  for
himself, and be a rational believer of that which he accepted as
truth.  His religious belief differed as much,  and  even more,
from the generally accepted doctrine of the  Church, as  his ho-
moeopathic theory and practice differed from the old school of
medicine.
  The  difficulty of three persons in the Godhead, and  how to
make one of the three, did not trouble his mind, for he knew
and fully understood that the Trinity  Avas embodied  in  the
Divine Humanity of Christ, and that  there  is  but one  God in
but one person.  Nor Avas it  difficult for him to  solve the ap-
parent contradiction of the literal sense of the sacred Scripture,
neither the apparent contradictions  of scriptural  statements with
the developed facts of this age; for  he well kneAv that the Word
of God is infinitely higher than human  thought or language, and
that in  the  inner life of these literal forms  we  find  an  in-
exhaustible fountain of the Divine Wisdom from A\rhich we may
drink and never thirst.
  From his knowledge of the spiritual world, and the  relation
betAveen this life  and the life to come, he knew that man as a
spiritual being continues to live, that death is only the departure
from one world to another; that it is but the  material body that
dies, and returns to the earth from which it Avas  taken, there to
remain and to rise no more, but man himself  -will never die. 
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  When he, therefore, at the last moments of his earthly life,
spoke the words:  " I am dying," he knew that it was  but the
material form that had  fulfilled its mission and  would cease to
exist, but that he, who had for many years, in and through that
body, accomplished  great  good  to  this Avorld, would  not  go
from this land of the living to the silent repose of the dead, but
from  the land of first development and preparation to  that of
eternal  perfection.

   Dr.  C.  W. Taylor  expressed himself next  in these
words:

  •" The air is filled with farewells to the dying, and  mournings
for the  dead."  Hourly,  in some  graveyard, the yawning earth
is closing around the inanimate forms of loved  ones.   We are
summoned  but once to join the innumerable caravan  moving on
into the " silent land."
  When the summons  came to  Constantine Hering, it found
him ripe in years and intellect—four  score years replete  with
benefits to his brother man.
  Quietly,  as a child, he sank into that last dreamless sleep and
Avas borne to the "garden of the slumberers."
  He Avhose soul  panted for communion  with the  great and
good, and reached forward Avith eager struggle to the  guerdon in
the distance, has passed away.
  A flower is plucked from  one sunny bower, a breach made in
one happy  circle, a jeAvel stolen from one treasury of love.  A
harvester has disappeared from the summer field  of life,  and his
funeral  winds like a wintry shadow along the street.  A  sentinel
has fallen from his post, and is throAvn from the ramparts of time
into the surging waters of eternity!
  His heart Avas hopeful  and generous, his life a perpetual litany
—a May-time croAvned Avith passion flowers that  never fade. 
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             Deck not his couch with sombre shrouds,
               It is not death, but only sleep,
             That kisses down his eyelids now ;
               Then why should we in sadness weep?
             He has but gained the needed rest
               From weary toil, from care and strife :
             His fittest meed of praise will be
               The grandeur of an earnest life.
             Take each the lesson to his heart,
               And in his earnest struggles know
             That  he strives best, who strives for truth,
               Though faint and weary he may grow.
             You may not reach your highest aim,
               Nor tread the heights that Hering trod,
             But do your duty—in that lies
               The path that leads you nearer God.

   Dr. C. H. Goodman related the  following incidents:

   My relations with Dr.  Hering were  only those of pupil to
teacher, for it Avas my privilege to sit  under his instruction dur-
ing the medical season of 1868-69 in  the Hahnemann Medical
College of Philadelphia.   I  can see him now as he hurried into
the lecture room,  his long hair floAving  over  his shoulders, and
his eye aflame Avith zeal  and enthusiasm.  What scrupulous at-
tention to detail; hoAV minutely and analytically he dAvelt on the
symptomatology of each drug, carefully weighing and balancing
every expression and utterance!   His mind was so full, so teem-
ing Avith facts and information, the hour  Avas too short to impart
them to  his hearers.   During my calls  at his residence, I Avas
particularly impressed  with his having recourse to his Materia
Medica at every prescription.   My examination hour Avith him
was one of the pleasantest I have ever  passed.  The subject of
my thesis being of some interest to him, he discussed it fully and
took  occasion to enlarge upon his  own  peculiar views of what
constituted Health and Disease, and of the analogy between the
effects of  the latter and drug provings.   He narrated to me at
the same time his experience in curing Avith Antimonium crudum 
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a large corn on the sole of the foot of a sea captain.   " Why,"
he remarked with a merry look, " in a short time I was consulted
by all the captains in the navy, and they all had corns on the
soles  of their feet, and  I nearly lost my reputation because I
couldn't cure them all."
  My last sight of him Avas on graduation day, as he sat on the
stage of the Academy of Music beside  Dr. Raue, to Avhom  he
Avas especially devoted, completely  wrapped  up in the orchestra,
Avhich was rendering an air from the opera of " Der Freischutz."
He Avas  nodding  and  bending his head  in unison Avith  the
music, apparently oblivious to all his  surroundings, smiles of
pleasure  brightening  up his venerable  face  as the  harmonious
strains fell on his ear.
  So  was he completely attuned to and in harmony with the world
and  profession to  which he devoted his life and  best  energies,
and  he fell  like the  ripe fruit from  the tree and was  gathered
into the garner of the faithful.


  Dr.  Philo G. Valentine  next recited the  following
original verses:

          In a far-off land—toward the rising sun,
          In a Saxon village there was  begun
          The story of a life, I shall unfold,
          As the hric muse shall render me bold.
          'Twas NewYear's day, on the  century's morn,
          That this child of genius, so rare, was born.
          Of Christian descent and imperial mien,
          He received the prenomen of Constantine.

          He grew and thrived like that great emperor,
          Tho' in different  fields was he conqueror.
          He fought battles, 'tis true, but no blood was spilled,
          'Twas with love of learning his soul was filled.
          'Twas hard to find such a searcher for truth,
          Such a lover of lore, as this promising youth. 
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In classic schools, he made reputation
Beyond his fellows, or expectation.
In Leipzig and Dresden he did pursue,
His surgical studies, and medicine too.
At length, though young, he a leader became,
And carved his name high on the roll of fame.

Now, some learned doctors, self-styled orthodox,
Desired the uprooting of heterodox,
Which doctors, like clergy, are prone to hate,
Despise and abhor and abominate:
A philosopher, sage, or any man
Was searched for to conquer one Hahnemann,
To write down his heresy, the worst of all,
This curing the sick with no medicine at all.

Young Hering knew University men,
And they knew he yielded a trenchant pen;
They tossed  him the glove, he accepted the banter,
To crush out similia similibus curantur.
To post himself for th' annihilation,
He sought every book, every compilation.
Consulted great volumes, high-shelved and low,
This new medical creed to overthrow.
In hot pursuit of his line of attack,
Numerous libraries he did ransack,
Never omitting to make quotation
Of every phrase at all in relation
To the subject matter taken in hand—
To drive Homoeopathy from the land.

Such was the feeling in Hahnemann's day,
The public arose in hostile array,
And, denouncing him as a frenzied fraud,
Compelled him to seek a residence abroad;
In a land where learning and science advance,
In a land of sunshine, liberty-loving France.

But Hering softened in the presence of truth,
And with the ardor of genius and youth,
Saw, as light shone in from the other side,
It was with error he had been allied. 
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Our honest hero now, convinced of his wrong,
Retraces his steps, and sings a new song;
The creed that was to be shown a disgrace,
He clasps to his bosom in fond embrace;
It became his solace, his pleasure, his pride,
And he its champion till the day he died.

He soon thereafter obtained his degree,
In an old German university.
His researches in science were so well known,
His name and fame reached the ears of the throne,
And with the King's commission in his hand
He sought his fortune in a foreign land.
'Twas now his  intention, his theme, his boast,
To study nature on a tropical coast,
Beyond the sea he was destined to roam,
And South America became his home.

By the King he was especially sent,
To the southern half of this continent,
To learn in the woods of the Torrid Zone,
The flora and fauna till then unknown.
To natural history he gave  his time,
Of all researches, none more sublime.
He gathered specimens, some of them grand,
And shipped them homeward to the Fatherland.

For seven long years was he thus occupied,
Garnering knowledge from  every side,
Selecting and classing whatever found,
Then, set sail in a good ship homeward-bound.

He sailed from the tropics to a northern sea,
In the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three.

His voyage came to an unexpected end,
By disembarking in the land of Penn,
A stranger he  came, altogether unknown,
And Philadelphia claimed him as her own.

Inspired with great thoughts in this new found field,
And new beauties that nature here revealed,
In the realm of letters gained he quick position,
Which later in life gave him full fruition. 
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          A return to Europe was in contemplation,
          And arrangements were made for embarkation,
          But, an affaire du coeur brought that to a close,
          And our country henceforth was couleur de rose.

          Near fifty years have rolled around since then,
          While gifted Hering rose exalted among men.
          In Materia Medica without a peer,
          He won laurels all along a brilliant career;
          As husband, father, professor and friend,
          I have nothing to say, except to commend.

          But, there's an ending to everything here,
          And he's gone higher to a brighter sphere.
          'Twas a midsummer night he passed away,
          And climbed the heights of the "golden stairway."
          His evening like his morning in  beauty gleams;
          His death, but the lying down to pleasant dreams,
          He's now in Elysium forever to dwell,
          "After life's fitful fever he sleeps well."

   Dr. G. S. Walker then delivered the following oration :

   Constantine Hering is dead.   The  great  Healer has passed
from  the realm of wounds  and diseases.   The Antagonist of
Death, and  his Conqueror on a  thousand hard-fought fields, has
yielded at last, Avhen the  issue of the struggle was but his own
life.   Invincible in his conflicts for others, he Avas  mortal only
when he  struck in his  OAvn behalf.   And  death has  gained a
splendid prize.   If  the old chivalric theory be true, that all the
honors of the defeated belong of right to  the victor, Immortal
Death has seldom, in all the ages, from the issue of a single fight,
Avon so large a spoil.  The mighty Physician, whose visits to the
couch  of suffering  were as the  Angel of Heaven's mercy, and
whose prescription  Avas  Healing's potent spell; the  calm, all-
furnished schoolman—the Champion  of the Old  School—Avho
laid his boyish  lance in rest against the  Black Knight of Medi-
cal Heresy, and, doomed to  dismemberment  by his Client, Avas
saved by  his Adversary, and thence consecrated all the energies 
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of his redeemed strength to the new banner of "Similia"—bear-
ing it, in triumph, through both Hemispheres and in every clime,
under the southern Cross and  Northern Pleiad,  and planting it,
Avith his dying hand,  on the very citadel  of the Enemy; the
great Teacher,  Avhose graduation thesis Avas   "De  Medicina
Futura," and who founded the first College of our Order in the
Avorld; Avhose name lies at the foundation of our  Medical Litera-
ture, side by side Avith that of the immortal Hahnemann; the
Poet, Avhose creative genius found and grasped, and Avhose sense
of harmony set in eternal  order and  beauty, the great original
truths of our system;  the Seer, Avhose prophetic ATision pierced
the sullen shadows of the Infinite, and brought Avithin the appre-
hension of common men a revelation of the Divine; the Laborer,
Avhose untiring energies kneAV no pause  or  recreation, save in
added and deeper toil;  the  Hercules, Avho cleansed the  fouler
than Augean Stables of Medical Science, and encountered  and
sleAV the Nemean Lion of Medical Orthodoxy ; the gentle, gener-
ous, brave, great-hearted, Avhole-souled Man,  Avhose  qualities
were more simply great than  his attributes Avere sublimely splen-
did : all these have gone doAvn in that last desperate struggle, in
closed lists, where his  only second  Avas a woman, Avhose  loving
hand and tender  strength Avere all unable to hold back from his
heart the icy grasp of  Death.  Constantine  Hering is dead, and
all the orphaned  Children of Affliction weep, and all the  gener-
ous and  noble of earth haATe  sympathy in their  soitoav and are
partakers of their grief.
   In the effulgence of his  larger and  brighter fame, we are
sometimes inclined to forget that Hering Avas pre-eminently the
Physician.  Let  us  tenderly  and  gratefully,  in  sympathy with
the wide circle of his  bereaved  patients, remember this fact to-
night.   Nature and education combined to render him the great
Healer.   His  temper  Avas  generous,  ardent, tender, affectionate
and high.  The  pathematic Avas  among the  strongest  forces of
his grand nature; and it Avas  ahvays a Avisely regulated and per-
fectly governed force.   High over all that wealth of sympathy, 
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delicate, and susceptible as ideal Avoman's, sat the intelligent and
regal Will, rendering it subservient to the great end of his pres-
ence in the sick-room.  And what a presence there!  His stately
form—his curling locks and flowing beard—the pure white light
of cultured intellect shining on his lofty forehead, and flashing
in his earnest eye, but melloAved and softened by the roseate hue
of deep and hearty kindness—his mere appearance Avas the Har-
binger of Hope to the Couch of Despair.  And then his manner!
Quiet, not soft; gentle, not Aveak; firm, not hard; confident, not
rash;  serious, not solemn;  the gravity of simple earnestness, com-
bined Avith the assurance  of abundant resources and an armed
disciplined Intelligence: it  Avas  the  finished perfection of the
bearing of the Typical Physician, and  had, in itself, some healing
power.
   His  Method of Diagnosis Avas the analysis of exclusion.  He
ascertained Avith the  utmost care, and  minuted with  the  greatest
exactness, every characteristic  symptom.   This group of hostile
appearances he attacked with  all the energies  of his powerful
mind.  One after another, he cast out and trampled under  foot
every false and specious probability,  until he stood, at the last,
face to face with his great enemy—the actual, the imminent  and
the dangerous  Dynamic Force; and against this,  Avhen found,
his Arsenal of Provings  rendered  him  almost umncible.  He
Avas never hasty or empirical in practice.  He cared nothing for
the man—Avhether rich or poor, or high or low—but everything
for the patient.  It Avas a hand-to-hand fight Avith Disease; in
which, once engaged, he  thought only of his  Antagonist,  and
would  neither  surrender nor be beaten.   Of course, his success
Avas great, if not unexampled.   By his OAvn  personal and indi-
vidual prescriptions, he snatched from the  hand of Disease and
Death unnumbered and innumerable thousands;  and indirectly,
by the influence of his discoveries, suggestions and teachings, he
was undoubtedly the most valuable factor of his age in the grand
multiple  of Health  and Life.   His patients venerated, trusted,
loved,  idolized, and  almost  worshiped him.  No other man or 
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men could supply his place to them.  He Avas their uworite and
all-powerful Apostle of the  Gospel of Health;  and  Avhen  they
could not secure his visits, they Avould fain, like them of old to
Peter, have brought forth their sick into the streets, that at least
his shadoAv, in passing, might fall upon and bless them.  And this
great Physician is dead !
   Hering Avas the unrivaled champion and advocate of the Eter-
nal LaAV  of  Similia  Similibus  Curantur.   Sincere,  intelligent,
high-cultured, profound, original, bold and eloquent, he lifted its
banner from  the  dust of popular contempt, and challenged, for
its insignia, the admiration and gratitude of the nations. All his
interests, all  his prejudices, the bent of his  education, the pride
of championship, the heat of conflict, the hopes of his friends and
admirers—all forbade  him to embrace the neAV and despised
Heresy.   Yet embrace it he would and did, Avith  all the fervor
of his hero-heart, simply because upon  investigation, not  impar-
tial  but  prejudiced, he found  it true.   The wave of conviction
which rolled  into his mind, from the vast Ocean of Truth, Avashed
every stain of prejudice from  its shores, and left them shining
Avith the calm light of certainty.
   A_nd  his Avas no  emotional conversion,  born of a  moment's
frenzy and destined to perish Avith the passing furor.  It Avas not
because the NeAV  School saved  that right arm which the Old had
doomed to excision, that he devoted its energies, Avith such con-
sistent and efficient fidelity, to  the redemption of a pledge wrung
from him in  an hour of insupportable anguish.   It was because,
with all the exhaustive thoroughness of his grand and  luminous
intelligence, he had previously investigated, tested and proved,
until his Avhole nature was rife Avith conviction, that the healing
touch of  Homoeopathy had power to kindle the long-prepared
train and dedicate him, in an explosion of feeling, to the per-
petual championship of its incomparable  merits.  Thenceforth,
all his  previous  attainments  became but the stepping-stones  by
which he ascended to the serene heights of Culture, and stood on
their loftiest  professional pinnacle, alone. 
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  Hahnemann became  his friend,  intimate, and  teacher;  and
from this  Sage the hungry Neophyte dreAV all the accumulated
treasures  of  his  lore.   Thence,  girt  with  the commission  of
Royalty, under the  stellar  light of the  Magellan Clouds, he
sought the secrets of nature in her  most affluent home, and, fast
as they accumulated, turned these treasures to the light of public
advocacy of the cause he had so earnestly espoused.  Far-seeing,
patient and profound, as broadly and highly cultured, he rested
not on any yielding soil, but digged, and digged, until he reached
the rock of ultimate truth ;  so that he may be said  to have stood,
with his head among the stars, catching the earliest and latest
gleam  of heaven's light, and with his feet planted  upon the im-
movable foundations Avhich support the world.  With this gigan-
tic reach and grasp of truth, he could not but be original. With
the constituents of sincerity, earnestness, and self-sacrifice, he
could  not but be bold.  With the freshness and  enthusiasm  of
the youth, joined to the knoAvledge and culture of the philoso-
pher and  the sage, he could not but be eloquent.   All these he
was.  And this invincible Champion is dead!
  Hering Avas par eminence the inspired Teacher.  "Poeta nas-
citur non fit," had never truer application than to him.  He Avas
born for the vocation.   And  this high  and incomparable gift  of
original genius he supplemented by the most careful training.
Always he taught con  amore.   At home, on the  street, in the
sick-room, in his study, in the clinique, from the chair of the lec-
turer or the rostrum  of  the orator—wherever auditors could be
found—he Avas their  Avise,  patient, and delighted  instructor.
This was the purpose of all  his learning.  He gained but to im-
part.   His Avhole capital of mental wealth Avas free to all comers.
Of  his illimitable gains he hoarded nothing.  The fountain  of
his  instruction was perennial, and had  its source in the everlast-
ing springs of Genius, Labor  and Love.  And, though he sought
not this end, the paradox of  Scripture was fulfilled to him: all
his  gifts  Avere gains.   By the  operation of a changeless  laAV,
what he gave to others was doubled to his OAvn bosom.  This Avas
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the secret of his unfailing  readiness and fulness.  Knowledge,
he deemed  a universal heritage, to Avhich every willing  and
capable mind had an indefeasible right;  and Avherever he found
such minds, it was more blessed for him to give than for them to
receive.  Yet these gifts, widely and lavishly as he  flung them
forth, were but  the  small change of his thought;  and his mind
was rich in massive ore, in  ingots and gems.  And with all this
priceless Avealth  he doAvered  Humanity by his pen.
  He Avas the father and maker of our Medical Literature; for
Avhat he did not produce, he inspired.  His own thought-products,
completed, begun and designed, are so many and so intrinsically
great, that admiration loses  its flippant eloquence, and sinks  into
Avonder and awe before the processes of so vast a mind. No such
Avriter on Popular Medicine has ever lived.   No such writer on
Scientific Medicine has  ever lived.  His " Domestic Physician "
still teaches the  multitudes,  in many languages  and editions, the
secret, of health  at  home;  and his  "Analytical Therapeutics "
and " Guiding Symptoms " are of a quality Avhich might satisfy
the aspirations after fame of many first-class minds, and will re-
quire the labors of many such to complete them, with the mate-
rials already gathered and prepared by their great Author.  All
these precious instructions to the world are couched in terms the
most simple and direct, and  distinguished by an entire absence of
style.   He Avrote but to expound his thought; and his words are
that  thought's simplest and strongest vehicle.  Of him it may be
said, Avith truth  and emphasis, that, not only to our own school
but to the Avhole world  of Medical Thought and  Culture, "He
Avas  a Teacher sent from God."  And this matchless Teacher is
dead!
  Hering was an unexampled Laborer.  In boyhood, his sport
was toil.  In maturity,  his  recreation was creation.  In age, his
repose was  application.   He  took no  rest, and  needed none.
Work was his pleasure and his passion.  Each day of his life
was  too  brief for the busy ends he  assigned  it;  each hour of
every day, though beginning with the third  after midnight  and
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 ending only Avith the tenth after midday, too short for his toilful
 purpose.  To the very last day, and almost the last hour of his
 life, his unresting exertions never ceased.  And yet, his energies
 never flagged.  He did not toil on doggedly and dully, the re-
 luctant slave  of a  cruel  purpose; but with such warm, earnest,
 and cheerful  interest  as  made  him dread the hour of necessary
 suspension of  his task. The sustained fire of his energy Avas simply
 marvelous.  There is nothing in the correlation and conservation
 of material  forces which can at all account for it.  It did not lie
 in the food he ate, or  the sleep he took.   Rather, it would seem
 to have been the result  of such  an uncommon affluence, in the
 original endoAvment of his vital forces, as the world has seldom
 if ever seen.  Instead of losing, as is  the  case Avith other men,
 this rare mind seemed rather to accumulate fire and  force by its
 own progress.   And it was no unregulated and disorderly energy,
 Avhich thus  found  its necessary expression in ceaseless action.
 Every mental  impulse had a method—every intellectual ebullition
 poured its forces into a prescribed channel—every molten thought
 settled into its previously prepared mould, and hardened into the
 shape which  it  Avas predestined to take and Avear forever.  It
 was labor with  such  method as economized  and utilized every
 particle of mental energy; as if the Avorker had been the poorest
 of the poor, instead of the Avealthiest of earth, in intellectual en-
 doAvments.   And the  method was no  clumsy, fanciful or  gro-
 tesque contrivance of  idle revery, perverted taste, or passionate
 prejudice, but the highest and most finished product of original
 genius, guided by intelligent and cultivated skill.  It Avas such
 a method as one may see a sample of in the "Analytical Thera-
 peutics;" a method to fill the mind Avith Avonder and joy, and to
 fall  upon the Avorld of Medical Thought  and  Culture like the
 benediction of the Most High.
  And all this measureless strength, indicated by such unrivaled
 labors, was dedicated to the grandest objects, and justified by the
 highest results.  Its  products, crystallized in print, admirable and
Avonderful as they are, are but a small part of these results.   The 
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 walls of Hering's  study,  from floor  to  ceiling, are filled Avith
 manuscripts, in his OAvn handwriting, all  perfectly arranged and
 methodized, to carry on and complete the incomparable  Avorks
 Avhich he  began and  designed.  Thus the matchless Worker,
 standing in his study, built up around  him that pearly palace of
 his thought, Avhich  shall never knoAV decay.  Alas! our Ulysses
 has departed on his travels,  and there  is none left at Ithaca
 strong enough to bend his boAV!  Atlas has gone to the Hesperides,
 and there is none to bear up the skies.  And this incomparable
 Laborer is dead!
   Above all, Constantine Hering Avas a Man.   All the constitu-
 ents of manly character Avere his.  Strength, courage, force, and
 constancy  distinguished him above other  men.  In  ability to
 grasp, and firmness to  hold, all that he recognized as truth, he
 had no peer.  In adventurous  daring,  supported and justified by
 the tremendous momentum of his mind, he \A'as simply sublime.
 His principles were pure,  unselfish, and high,  and his loyalty to
 conviction unAvavering.  A better or truer man  never lived.  And
 this strong base of noblest manhood was  overlaid Avith the fine
 gold of all gentle and  attractive  qualities.  He Avas susceptible,
 appreciative, affectionate, constant, tender, and forbearing.   His
 heart was open  as  his  hand, and the clasp of the one Avas Avarm
 with the pulse of the other.   His tastes Avere  cultivated and re-
 fined to that degree, that his house Avas the home of Art  and
 Culture, and the refuge of struggling Genius.   His friends Avere
 statesmen, artists, scientists, of world-wide reputation and renown;
 and of these, once gained, he never lost one. All who loved him,
 loved him to the end, either of their own lives or his.  He Avas
 gentle as a child, pure  as a  snoAvflake, and warm as a sunbeam.
 In a Avord, the  "grand  old name of Gentleman" Avas his by right
 of eminence in the  essential qualities Avhich constitute that char-
 acter.   In the words of one of our sweetest modern poets,
           "To him were all men heroes, every race noble,
            All women  virgins, and each place a temple:
            He knew nothing that was base."
And this peerless Gentleman is dead! 
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  Dead!  Aye, even as the mollusk, the builder of the sea-shell
dies, leaving his soul crystallized in forms of imperishable beauty,
which still ring with the sound  of life's  eternal sea.   Hering is
not dead.  He doth not even sleep.   His waking spirit Avalks
abroad, through all the realms of thought.  For such as he there
is no death.  He lives, and must ever live, in  Memory, in Bless-
ing, and in Hope.   In the  hearts of many, rich and  poor, high
and  low, his  deeds have built a shrine  Avhereon Gratitude will
lay her morning  and her evening sacrifices,  until the  hearts
which cherished him  as  a Physician  have ceased to beat; and
even in  dying, they will bequeath his memory as a rich legacy to
their children.  The disciples  and lovers of the cause he espoused
and defended Avill  never cease to hear the all-eloquent Champion
of Homoeopathy.   The Student of  Medicine, in the  remotest
future, will bless  and  revere the name of Hering, as  the  great
Bringer of Order out of the chaos of  the Materia Medica.   The
immediate and remote beneficiaries  of  his life-work  will  join
hearts and hands, in gratitude for his benefactions and emulation
of his industry.  And, ennobled  by his name and fame, ever and
forever, " his children, and his children's children, will rise up
and call him blessed."
   After the eulogy the following ode was sung:
               How sleep the brave who sink to rest,
               By all their Country's wishes blessed !
               When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
               Returns to deck their hallowed mold,
               She there shall dress a sweeter sod
               Than fancy's feet have ever trod.
               By fairy hands their knell is rung;
               By forms unseen their dirge is sung,
               There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,
               To bless the turf that wraps their clay,
               And Freedom shall awhile repair,
               To dwell a weeping hermit there!
   A benediction was  asked  by the Rev. John  Snyder,
and the meeting adjourned. 
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     MEETING IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

   At a meeting of homoeopathic physicians held at Kan-
sas City, State of Missouri,  October 10th, 1880,  to take
action  on the death of Dr. Constantine Hering, the sub-
joined  preamble and  resolutions were presented and
approved :•

   Whereas, We have learned Avith sincere sorrow of the decease
of  our  venerable colleague, Dr.  Constantine  Hering, whose
splendid attainments in science, varied experience in  practice,
and long service to humanity, wre now recall with transport and
shall remember Avith gratitude;  therefore, be it
   Resolved, That in the late Dr. Hering Ave recognized our ideal
of a man, a scholar, and a physician. His early struggles for the
establishment of homoeopathic medicine, and his later triumphs
in  the  security of the same, are masterly  and  imperishable
achievements.
   Resolved, That in the death of Dr. Hering the cause of Homoe-
opathy  has lost its ablest  worker, the family of  homoeopathic
physicians its dearest member,  and homoeopathic  literature its
most honored name.  As we revere his memory let us emulate
his character, and the great and  good of our school whom he has
joined in the world of spirits, who "rest from their labors though
their Avorks do follow them."
     UNIVERSITY OF  MICHIGAN MEETING.
  At a meeting of the faculty and students of the Homoe-
opathic Department of the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, held on Sunday evening, October 10th, 1880, W. P.
Polhemus, the president of the class, called  the meeting
to order and briefly stated the object of the  gathering. 
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He then introduced Prof. E. C. Franklin, who spoke as
follows:

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:

  At  a meeting of the homoeopathic physicians of the city of
Philadelphia, called  together on the 25th day of July last, for
the purpose of expressing their vieAVS and sentiments  touching
the history, position and connection of the late Dr. Constantine
Hering with the cause  of  Homoeopathy, it Avas resolved " that a
memorial meeting be  held  in honor of the  deceased, at which
physicians from all parts of the Avorld should  be invited to  par-
ticipate in person or by letter."   In compliance with this resolu-
tion, we,  the Faculty and Students of the Homoeopathic Depart-
ment  of  the  University of  Michigan, with such friends of our
system that feel an interest in the present occasion, have assembled
together as earnest memorialists, to express our profound regret
at the loss of this truly  great man, our condolence with his family,
and to convey to distant friends our appreciation of the  distin-
guished services Dr. Hering has given  to the cause of Homoe-
opathy during the  last  half century.
  The early history of Dr. Hering finds him  a bitter  opponent
of Homoeopathy.   Born with the beginning  of the century in
Oschatz,  Saxony, we find little in early life to interest  us, until
the period when he began his student life under the immediate
charge of his father.   Here we  observe him  as a diligent  and
faithful pupil, developing those sterling qualities  of head  and
heart  that made him so attractive to his teachers while pursuing
his studies in the gymnasium at Zittau, then under the rectorship
of his father.  His remarkable powers of observation and analy-
sis, his centering application, marked him out as  no  ordinary
individual.  In his twentieth year he matriculated as a student
of medicine at the University of Leipzig, and during his pupilage
here Avas singled out  by his preceptor, on account of his superior 
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literary attainments, to prepare a monograph in  opposition to
that medical heresy that was at this time agitating and unhing-
ing the medical mind in Germany  and other parts of the Conti-
nent.  Elated Avith the prospect of a scientific  tilt with the sage
of Coethen, he began a revieAV of I lahnemann's writings, hoping
to obtain  an easy victory in his medical contest;  but  his read-
ings  only impressed him  the  stronger with the doctrine of
Hahnemann, and scientist  as he Avas, he became so thoroughly
convicted with the  depth  of reason  and glow of genius of the
great  medical reformer, that his  criticisms were  turned into
laudation of the teachings of the author, and he became a con-
vert to their strongly impressed truths.  About this time, and
Avhile pursuing his anatomical demonstrations, he  inflicted upon
his hand a poison Avound  from the keen  edge of the  dissector's
knife, Avhich subsequently  gave him  no little solicitude and
anxiety.  He sought medical counsel of his old friends, and in
spite of their best directed  efforts  he grew daily worse, and the
gloomy alternative Avas given him  of amputation  of the  hand.
Chagrined and discomfitted,  he accepted the proffered aid of
a friend, a disciple of Hahnemann, and had  the proud  satisfac-
tion of seeing his hand daily grow better, and finally saved from
the dreaded prognosis pronounced by his attending physicians.
With  this his  conversion to Homoeopathy was secured, and he
left  Leipzig strong in the faith  of  Similia  and  entered  the
University  at  Wurzburg.  After  attending lectures  here,  he
graduated in 1826, and returned to Saxony to practice his pro-
fession on his native soil.  He accepted the position as teacher of
natural sciences and house physician in a prominent school under
the charge of Director Blochmann.   Wearied with  continued
application along the old groove of medical thought, disgusted
with the  endless jargon of  medical theories  and changing dog-
mas, and soured Avith the intolerant  bigotry of that old school,
that is " broken down in council and in fight, in hospital and in
camp, yet brokenly lives  on," his  active  and restless spirit,  im-
prisoned no longer by the  bonds of state medicine, sought new 
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and unpent fields for its scientific longings.   He saAV in the pro-
fession of medicine a  system of castes  of corporations,  not  of
individual, but of collective  castes.   He saw that a man  may
be anything  he can, but  no man can  be anything  out  of the
caste.  He longed to be free, and like the imprisoned bird  sought
freedom  in  the  boundless  continent  of beautiful fruits  and
floAvers.  An opportunity was  soon presented, and he eagerly
accepted the position that was  the  fulfillment of his day-dream
of usefulness, and Avhich gave us  the  bright realization of his
long-cherished hopes and made him a hero in the new world of
progressive knowledge.  A  distant  relative  had just returned
from South America, whose vivid descriptions of the beauty and
splendor of the natural curiosities of that far-off tropical region,
Avhere " nature wears her SAveetest smile and sings her loveliest
notes,"  inspired his young  heart to avoo fickle  fortune  in the
distant lands of the Occident.  By  the aid of influential friends
he procured  an appointment from  the King of Saxony  to ac-
company  the accomplished  naturalist  Weigel,  and in 1827,
with rosy hopes and  elated spirit, he  set  sail  for  his  far-off
western  home,  and   arrived  in  Dutch Guiana  soon  after.
Hopeful and  buoyant, and  Avith  a soul full of ardor for his
cherished work, he entered  upon  his  neAV  field of labor  and
made many friends and converts to the faith that animated all
his labors.   Still keeping up his medical studies, pari passu  with
his zoological enquiries, he attracted  considerable attention both
to himself and the system of medicine by which he was continu-
ally  bequeathing rich legacies to  suffering  humanity.   While
upon the very tiptoe of encouragement  and  merited commenda-
tion  from those who were the almost daily recipients of his  kindly
care and thoughtful consideration, and Avhile  pursuing Avith  dili-
gence and earnestness his chosen field of study, a message was
handed him from the  Fatherland reprimanding him for  daring
to extend and popularize the hated  science of Homoeopathy, afar
off though it be, in the lands beyond the sea.  His noble spirit,
no longer fettered by the chains of that medical  despotism  that 
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had bound him to the care of a hated propagandism during the
earlier period of his student  life, Avas stung  to  the quick, and
chagrined at the unlooked-for result of his chosen mission, he re-
signed his office and devoted himself to the practice of medicine
in the city of Paramaribo.  Soon after this he accepted an invita-
tion to come to Philadelphia, Avhere he arrived in January, 1833.
From here
           " Out of his self-drawing web he gives us note,
           The force of his own merit makes his way;
           A gift that Heaven gives for him,"

we see him ahvays intent upon his grand mission  and  entering
upon his new work Avith renewed purpose.   His enthusiasm  for
the theme of his chosen life-Avork overcame every opposition, and
we see him ere the mantle of citizenship  draped  his manly form,
lecturing in his native  tongue to the few but earnest disciples of
the new system gathered together to do homage to their distin-
guished countryman.   From that time to the day of his death,
animated by the noble purpose of improving  as  far as  he could
his cherished science, he labored  constantly and enthusiastically
for its advancement.   He  Avas  the first physician who taught
Homoeopathy  publicly, at Allentown, Pa., and in 1835, in  con-
junction Avith Dr.  Wesselhoeft  and  others, he  organized " The
North American Academy of the  Homoeopathic Healing Art,"
which  flourished for a  season and accomplished a great amount
of good  to  those interested in its work.  This institution tem-
porarily succumbed to  the pressure of pecuniary embarrass-
ment,  but soon after  was  revived  on a larger and more  ex-
tended  scale as " The  Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn-
sylvania."   It was  the  master spirit of Dr. Hering, the liberal,
energetic and  enthusiastic admirer of a broad  and liberal  educa-
tion in the arts and sciences, that gave birth to our own American
Institute, the first national  medical organization in the United
States.   His contributions to the homoeopathic literature coeval
Avith "The Archives," even at that early day, secured for him an 
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honorable position in the world of letters and established him as
a worthy standard-bearer of our exclusive  law of cure.  I will
not speak of his many and interesting contributions to our Ma-
teria Medica in which he Avas, of all others in this country, its
most diligent and faithful contributor.   I Avill  leave that Avith
one more competent to do the subject justice.  He was truly the
pioneer of our school of medicine in the United States, and by
his  labors  on our Materia  Medica  he  has added more wealth
to our school  of practice than any  other man  living since the
days of the immortal founder of our school. "The great joy of
his  late days," says  a distinguished  scholar and contemporary,
" was the reading of the  address delivered by the President  of
the American Institute of Homoeopathy in Avhich the  methods
of Hahnemann and the immutable principles governing our
school  Avere so earnestly laid  before our  National Institute, as
Avere also the proceedings of its members."  A close student, an
able teacher and an  indefatigable worker for more than half a
century, he furnished valuable and often brilliant articles to the
periodical  literature of America and Germany.  In his social
life he posessed a fund of anecdote and humor that made him a
genial  companion and an agreeable friend.  He enjoyed in turn
a good joke, and  laughed heartily at its recital.  Of late years
his  bodily  \dgor gradually failed, in consequence of his mature
years  and  frequent asthmatic  attacks which  prostrated  him
severely.  I remember him well at the Centennial meeting, during
my visit to Philadelphia at that time.  I  Avas invited to  his
house and  became  one of his  few guests  at a supper  given  in
honor of that memorable  occasion.  He died as he lived, a  firm
friend, a devoted student and an uncompromising disciple of the
truths  taught by the immortal  Hahnemann.  He was  borne  to
his last resting place at Laurel Hill by friends and colleagues
Avho had shared his  toil, and who gave  him " Tears for his love,
joy for his  fortune, and honor for his valor."

  At  the  conclusion  of Prof.  Franklin's  remarks,  the 
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 chairman  introduced  Prof. T. P. Wilson, who  spoke as
 follows:

 Ladies and  Gentlemen:
   The glory of  the  Roman Empire and the name  of Julius
 Ciesar are inseparably connected.  The grandeur of the Ameri-
 can Republic  and the name of George Washington are  almost
 one and the same thing.   And so I turn to the name of Dr.
 Constantine Hering, but  I need not ask to what system of phi-
 losophy, to  what department of knoAvledge or to Avhat  great
 enterprise that name is indissolubly joined.   Constantine Hering
 and American Homoeopathy have  groAvn together, the one from
 infancy to old age, croAvned  at last by the laurels of death, and
 the other, from infancy toward a matured  youth ;  and so closely
 have  they been joined that  nothing but the searching hand of
 death could  put them  asunder.  Yet, in a certain sense, Hering
 is not dead.  In the highest sense in which he lived, he still lives ;
 and Avill continue to live; and his acts will be repeated,
            " In states unborn and accents yet unknown."
   When Hering Avas born, medical science and art Avere " Avith-
 out form and void, and darkness Avas upon the face of the deep."
 As night upon the seas enfolds the boundless waters in her jetty
 Avings, so in  those days, chaos covered and clouded all.  Scarce
 one department of our present system of medicine had more than
 " a local habitation and a name."   Anatomy had achieved some
 progress, and the human  body had itself undergone some rude
 and imperfect explorations—no more; but physiology was  as a
 dream to the human mind, and its beauties had not reached the
 point  of conception, much less had they been born.  Pathology
 Avas an  inextricable mass of facts and  fancies, and upon  these
 sat superstition enthroned, threatening divine  vengeance to all
 who had the temerity to question their real character.  Surgery,
 Avith  its rude implements, was staining the earth  with human
gore;  and while  ignorantly  striving  to  relieve, it added  indefi- 
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nitely to the  sum total of human  misery.  As for the general
practice of medicine, it  Avas  " confusion worse  confounded."
Empiricism  reigned supreme, and  being without  law,  it was
without order; and being  Avithout  law or order, it Avas Avithout
success.  It  was then  that the  great  Frenchman  Bichat, said
of medical practice,  it " is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent
ideas, and is  perhaps of all the sciences, that Avhich best sIioavs
the caprice of the human mind.  It is a shapeless assemblage
of inaccurate  ideas, of observations often puerile, of deceptive
remedies, and of formulae as fantastically conceived as they are
tediously arranged."
  It Avas into this age that Constantine  Hering was  born.  And
Avhen he had  come  to mature life, it must have been a strange
infatuation that led him to select  medicine for his life's work.
Perhaps it was in the vain hope that he might amend its broken
ways.  Perhaps it Avas  under the delusive teachings of his  pre-
ceptors, Avho taught  him that
  1st. Medicine was a great and perfect art.
  2d. It had  some  few minor  imperfections which might be im-
proved ; and
  3d. That he who  would attempt  to improve  it Avould in all
human probability be eternally damned.
  Passing out of the deleterious  influences of the  schools into a
Avider arena of thought, young Hering  heard of the writings of
one of his felloAV countrymen, a distinguished German physician,
by the name of Samuel Hahnemann.  He went to the store and
bought his books.  He  took them home to read  them and to try
to understand them.
  Like another, in later years, he might have used  those books
for wadding to load  a rusty ancient gun, and leaving to others to
fire the train, he might  have escaped across the seas to await the
result of the explosion—and  he might  have  returned  to find no
damage done worth  speaking about.  Hering did sincerely ex-
pect to overthroAV  Hahnemann's argument; but alas ! he was
himself overthroAvn.   He  had read   Hahnemann's  writings, 
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caught such  glimpses  of the truth,  that  thenceforth,  like the
children of Israel  Avandering in  the  desert, he had ever before
his eager gaze the divine Shekinah Avhich led him out of darkness
and  out  of bondage into the land that flowed Avith milk and
honey.
  For more than fifty years he Avas  a faithful follower of Hahne-
mann's teachings.   If  he had a creed, it was a short one and  to
the purpose: " I believe in the one  great law of cure."
  With him  this was not a blind  faith.   He brought that decla-
ration to the test  of  his experience, applying it  Avith infinite
patience to multitudes  of suffering  men, Avomen and  children—
for let me say here that Constantine Hering was no idle dreamer.
He neArer attempted to evolve truth out of his own consciousness ;
but he gave to  this neAV doctrine the only test by which it may
be  proven, namely, demonstration.   I  do  not  think his mental
constitution  led him  far into the rationale of the laAV.   He was
no  speculator.   He looked  upon  this truth  as thoroughly a
practical one;  and it was his life's labor to increase the facility
of its application.   And in that life there Avas wrought the labors
of two score of the ordinary  men of the- profession.  I  think I
may safely say that Constantine Hering was chiefly great because
he was an incessant toiler.   I do  not  think he ever grew weary
of his task.
   If you Avill go back  to the  time when he  landed  on the shores
of this  new  country, with this new truth  burning  like  a sacred
fire on the altar of his heart, you Avill  see him, an  alien and a
stranger, looking in vain amid a people whose language he did
not  understand, for kindred spirits, with whom he might  com-
mune, and for temples of science to whose  altars he might bring
his spotless  offering.   There were medical schools  and  journals
and societies, and there were thousands of medical men, but they
had  no  sympathy Avith his  thought.   But, ah, his Avas  a heroic
soul!  He  knew the  truth ; he loved  and worshiped it, and  he
resolved to give it to the world.
   In a little toAvn in Pennsylvania  he laid the foundations of his 
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work.  I have never been at AllentoAvn, but I Avould walk its
streets to-day, if I could, Avith reverence.  The  rostrum and the
press Avere  the  agencies he chose for his instruments.  And  hoAV
well they did their Avork, let the record of the last half century
testify.
  But another  great  secret of  Hering's  success  lay  in the
masterly poAver of his  inspiration.  Himself endued with  inex-
haustable inspiration, he seldom failed to inspire all Avith Avhom
he came into contact.
  It Avas no more idle to think of touching fire Avithout being
burned, than of meeting Hering  and not catching some of the
enthusiasm that warned his  breast.  Nay, believe me, it Avas an
inspiration Avhich made his face radiant Avith light, and caused
his  halting tongue  to  adorn the  English  language, Avhich he
never quite mastered, with neAV beauty.
  It Avas not my privilege to know him intimately, but I have
knoAvn many of his'scholars; I have met many men Avho have
sat  at his feet, and God bless his memory, I do not know  that
he  ever sent out a halting  or a doubting   disciple.  HoAve\Ter
some of them may have become broken pitchers in subsequent
years, they came from  Hering's hands without  flaAv  or  blemish.
  Constantine  Hering Avas a true Homoeopath.   With his Avhole
heart and mind he believed  the truth  as expressed in  Similia.
The power to demonstrate its universal application to all forms
of disease, was greatly  limited in his  earlier days.   The needed
agencies were  feAV.  There  Avere no medical  schools to  teach
Hahnemann's  doctrines.  There  Avere no books to  promulgate
this new-born truth.  There  Avere no  journals in which to show
the results of experience, and there  Avas as good a chance of find-
ing paintings  by the  old masters  on this  new continent as  of
finding drugs of any sort fit for homoeopathic prescribing.  In
some obscure  corner of Philadelphia, in some  hidden recess  in
NeAV York, there might, perchance, be found a feAV remedies pre-
pared  after the formula laid doAvn by Hahnemann; and these,
when found, Avere  mostly in the  30th centesimal  attenuation. 
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But in those days they kne\v no better than to  give  such things
to people Avho were sick.  They had not heard of the Milwaukee
Academy or of the revelations of the Boston microscope.  And
so the 30ths  Avere given, and  as  the sick recoA'ered, the name
and fame of Homoeopathy Avere spread abroad.
   From Allentown, Hering Avent  to Philadelphia, and on a
broader stage, surrounded and  aided by ardent and able disciples,
he found his cause growing Avith great rapidity.
   It is not too much to say that the sceptre  of command Avhich
he first took upon  coming to America, did not fall from his hand
until he was stricken by death.  He fell at his post of duty, and
upon the day  of his death he Avas no less ardent and devoted to
the truth of Homoeopathy than when he first espoused the cause.
   We  haA^e seen  some attempted  changes in our school within
the past feAV years.  Our fabric has  been rocked by the baleful
influence of the spirit of reaction toward the  chaos of eclecticism
and the  discarded errors of Allopathy;  and Avhile our future
may be in this  respect, clouded  in doubt, Ave have the proud
satisfaction of knoAving that, upon the fair escutcheon of Hering's
name, this cloud can never rest, for never did he bow  the knee
to Baal.
   The  heroic  old  man is dead.  Here ends one of the grand-
est epochs  of medical history.  Henceforth  on  her fair pages
shall stand four score years  marking the  life and  labors of
Constantine Hering.  What a magnificent spectacle is the pro-
duction and completion of such a man !   What a croAvn of glory
it jjlaces upon the  broAV of humanity!  What a priceless gift is
such a  life to the human race!  AVhat a  harvest of  intellectual
Avealth is noAV  gathered in by the death of this great man ! Like
some choice ceramic he passed unharmed through the fires and
became more and more  beautiful  as  the flames of adversity
burned deeply into his moral  and  mental nature, the immortal
colors of a deathless life. Constantine Hering was a born leader of
men because of his high intellectual  endoAvments and his Avhole-
souled devotion to  truth.  Tradition tells us that, in the far east, 
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and in ages long since gone by, an elder Constantine, while at
the head of his imperial army, saw in the clouds a vision of the
cross and over it these words : " In hoc signo vinces," and that by
that sign he Avent forth to conquer, and laid the foundations of a
great and lasting empire.
  So in later  times  this young  Constantine, saw in  his imagina-
tion, the fair temple of medical science rising till its golden spires
were kissed by the clouds of heaven,  and over its fair portals he
saw deeply graven  by the  Divine hand these trenchant  words,
" Similia similibus curantur," and he exclaimed, " by that sign Ave
shall conquer," and  like a true prophet he prophesied and then
fulfilled his OAvn prophesies.  It is a supreme happiness to us Avho
live to-day, that we  have  seen such  a  spotless  life completed.
He lived and worshiped at  the shrine of nature; and when his
days Avere  numbered, he fell  into the mighty arms of the All-
Natura Avhich had cradled him in his infancy, and in that great
bosom, the love and power of which no man knows, Constantine
Hering sleeps the sleep of the just.

   The chairman  next introduced Prof. H. C. Allen, who
said:

  It is a remarkable fact that the efforts of the opponents of our
system of practice to prove  the  law  of similia a "humbug," by
the writing of a work  that should  thoroughly expose it, com-
pletely  uproot the  heresy,  and thus prevent its dissemination,
should have resulted in giving our  school two  of its  strongest
defenders and ablest champions—Dr. Quin in Great Britain  and
Dr. Hering in America.  Commissioned to strike the budding
truth a death blow in its infancy, they Avere themselves convicted
and became enthusiastic converts.
  The former, as President and one of the founders of the British
Homoeopathic Society,  has  done yeoman service  in his native
land—the land  of  Harvey, Jenner  and Sydenham;  Avhile the
latter,  as one  of the founders of  the oldest medical  society in 
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America, and its first President—the American Institute—as one
of the founders of the first Homoeopathic College  in the Avorld
and its first Professor of Materia Medica, has not only rendered
heroic service to  the Homoeopathic  School, but has left a name
honored and revered Avherever scientific medicine is known.
  Hering's labors in the field of Materia Medica have been of a
tAvo-fold character,  viz.,  his personal contributions—second only
to those of Hahnemann in number—and the contributions Avhich
through his magnetic  enthusiasm,  that brilliant coterie of  co-
laborers by Avhom  he  Avas surrounded, Avere induced to make.
To Hering, more than to any other man, are Ave indebted for the
Materia Medica contributions of Carroll Dunham—some of the
clearest expositions  and ablest  differentiations of  the mode of
action of some  of  the  remedies to  be found  in our literature.
Dunham has said that " in Constantine Hering I gained the most
helpful, generous and genial friend I have ever made;" and few
men Avere more capable of judging than Carroll Dunham.
  But it  is not so much the number of  remedies which he has
added to the Materia Medica, great  as they are, as the  manner
in which they are added, for which Ave should be most thankful.
Like  Hahnemann,  Hering grasped the  basic principle  upon
which alone an enduring  Materia  Medica  can be constructed,
viz., that  the  positive  facts of the  prover shall be recorded in
plain, untechnical language, free from theoretical  speculations.
Provings thus  made are of the nature of lasting observations, and
are as fixed and unchangeable  as the laAV of cure.  This is the
reason why the  simple  pure record of  observed  facts, Avhich
Hahnemann and his disciples recorded in the Materia  Medica
Pura fifty years ago,  free from  theories  and  speculations of a
physiological and pathological character,  are to-day as intelligi-
ble, as available, as Avell adapted to meet our wants in practice
as Avhen they left the Master's hand.   Hering, in  our day, had
the same material from which to construct a physiological theory
of the action of a drug that Hahnemann  and his disciples had;
in fact, the great advances made by the  progressive sciences of
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physiology and pathology in the last fifty years, gave him a vast
advantage over Hahnemann.  But, like Hahnemann, he  con-
fined himself simply to the recording of the fact, thus leaving each
observer free to place his OAvn construction  upon the action of
the drug.   This is a work which cannot be delegated to another;
because, as Dunham says: " The significance of a fact is measured
by the capacity of the observer."
  Next to his  tireless, never-flagging industry, " the capacity to
measure the significance of a fact" has been equalled by  but
few men our school has yet produced, and excelled by none, save
Hahnemann himself.  That rare quality of the student of Materia
Medica, possessed by  Hering in such a remarkable degree,  viz.,
the ability to  detect  the individual characteristics of a drug—
those finer points  of difference not to be found in the provings of
any other—is Avhat has rendered his labors of such lasting benefit
to his fellows.   It is this quality which has made his  Condensed
Materia Medica the best work of ready reference yet produced
in the Homoeopathic  School for the busy j>ractitioner.  This is
also the first work of  a standard character, in which the general
anatomical divisions in our Materia Medica  adopted by Hahne-
mann  as a basis for the classification of  symptoms, has  been de-
parted from.   The rubrics, it  is true, are increased in  number,
but they are admirably arranged to meet a two-fold object:  the
condensation  of  numerous  provings, and the  classification  of
symptomatology for ready reference, a want long felt in practice.
  The introduction of the serpent poisons,  in the magnificent
proving of Lachesis, marked an era of advance in our Materia
Medica.   It Avas violently assailed by the pathologico-physiologi-
cal  branch of the school, both in this country and in Germany,
and  the author accused of "manufacturing the symptoms," etc.
The  old view entertained by  toxicologists "that the poison  of
serpents is digested by  the  gastric fluids, and cannot  manifest
any  poisonous  properties Avhen  introduced into the living  or-
ganism through this channel," was first disproved by the proving
of the attenuated poison of Lachesis, and  abundantly verified
since. 
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  Hempel's Materia Medica, first edition, page 1143, says: "The
provings of the Lachesis virus have been instituted Avith very
small quantities of the poison, mostly Avith the hundredth up to
the infinitesimal portion of a  drop.  It has, therefore,  become
questionable with a great many, and indeed, so far as Germany
is concerned, Avith almost all thinking homoeopathic practitioners,
Avhether the almost interminable array of symptoms which Dr.
Hering alleges to have been produced by the Lachesis poison, is
not the work of fancy rather than  of actual observation.  In
spite of every  effort to the contrary, the conviction has gradually
forced itself upon my mind that the pretended pathogenesis of
Lachesis, Avhich has emanated from Dr. Hering's otherwise meri-
torious  and highly praiseAvorthy efforts, is a great delusion, and
that, with the exception of the poisonous effects with which this
publication is abundantly mingled, the balance of the symptoms
is unreliable."
  The  above  Avas  written in  1859,  and it certainly  was some
gratification to Dr. Hering to have  seen the verification of his
proving in  the succeeding twenty  years, and his character for
accuracy maintained.  The verifications of the provings of Lach-
esis opened the door for all the other  serpent  as well as insect
poisons; the principle involved being the same.  Hence Crotalus,
Naja, Apium virus, etc., have been  accepted as proven.
  As Hering  Avas far in advance of his colleagues and cotempo-
raries in the demonstration of the power of the attenuated remedy
to produce genuine and reliable pathogeneses, so he  was in prac-
tical therapeutics Avhen he published  his " Analytical Therapeu-
tics" and "The Guiding Symptoms."  He lived long enough to
see his Lachesis proving verified in practice;  and from Pisgah's
height he vieAved the Canaan Avhich the general profession may
see in  the  next generation, Avhen there may be  a  demand for
those tAvo  works.   Let us emulate his virtues and  practice his
never-tiring iudustry, so that  we may be able to contribute  our
mite to the common stock of knowledge. 
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  After the remarks of the faculty, the following resolu-
tions were presented and unanimously adopted :

  Whereas, We learn  with sorrow of the death of Dr. Con-
stantine Hering; therefore,
  Resolved, That we recognize in his death the termination of a
great and useful life.
  Resolved, That to Dr. Hering belongs rightfully the title of
" The Father of American Homoeopathy."
  Resolved, That to his life and labors medical science will be
forever under obligations.
  Resolved, That we unite  in an earnest  request, that a  fitting
memorial, monumental or  otherwise, be made to his memory by
the medical profession of America.
         MEETING  IN CLEVELAND,  OHIO.

  The Cleveland Academy of Medicine and Surgery met
on October 10th, 1880, pursuant to call; Dr. H. F. Biggar,
President, Dr. A. C. Buell, Secretary.  The object of the
meeting was explained by reading the call for the Hering
Memorial.
  The Rev. Dr. Bolles, who had been requested to open
the meeting with  prayer,  prefaced  the  devotions with
some remarks, of which the following is an outline:

  But Avhy commemorate the faithful departed ?
  Why think of them at all?   Why not rather let them be for-
gotten as a dream of the night—buried forever in oblivion—never
more to come as ghosts to disturb our slumbers—or Avhy not, if
we must sometimes think of them,  let it be only as gone, lost,
dead, buried, annihilated, absolutely extinct—never more to live
in thought or memory ? 
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  Alas! alas! an impossibility.  As well might we endeavor to
annihilate ourselves—as well might we try to extinguish the light
of the universe, as to quench the embers of an undying memory
of the dead.
  But if Ave must think of them—how ?
  God be  praised, Ave have an answer to this momentous question
in Holy Scripture, as plain as the sun in the heavens.
  How then must Ave think of them ?  Hoav commemorate them ?
Let the Bible ansAver.
  1st. We must think of them as  still alive—that  "Death hath
no more dominion over  them;" that " in that they died, they
died unto  sin once; but in that they lived, they live unto God;"
" delivered  from the  burden of the flesh  and are in joy and
felicity," for Avhich we love and praise, and magnify His glorious
name!
  What said our Saviour  of the departed faithful of old—of
Abraham, of Isaac and Jacob ?
  Expressly that they are  alive,  aAvaiting the resurrection; for
"God is not the God of the dead, but of the living"—and if they
are alive, much more " the faithful departed," from their time to
ours, Avho  "have fallen asleep in Christ."
  2d. We must think of them as " witnesses" ever living, and
ever testifying—" an innumerable cloud " or multitude, as when
the Apostle wrote his Epistle to the Hebrews—and yet then only
skirting, as it were, the horizon,  but now covering the  whole
heavens; and  what they see and what they testify, no  tongue
could begin to mention.
  3d. We must think of them as part of ourselves, our own mem-
bers, already rescued, saved, housed, and yet  still holding on to
us, our hands  clasped together in theirs, in Christ; our hearts
knit  together Avith theirs, as in one common bond of  love and
peace and joy—their song of praise must be ours—theirs  in tri-
umph, ours  in hope—theirs for us as well as for themselves, and
ours  for them as well as for ourselves; remembering always that
the same almighty power, and love, and mercy Avhich have car- 
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ried them safely through the trials and  conflicts of this mortal
life, and made them victorious, are pledged to us, and will  make
us victorious, provided only  we let not go our grasp, and " be
faithful eAren unto death."
             " Men once like us with suffering tried,
             But now with glory crowned."
  4th. We must think of the faithful  departed not as lost, not as
dead, not  only as still living;  not only as our  Avitnesses;  not only
as our members  Avith us of the same mystical body; but as still
our friends, our companions, our associates, our  brethren, our
" well beloved in Christ," bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh,
soul of our soul,  from Avhom it is impossible for Death to separate
us, or to break the sacred ties of our common humanity.

   Drs.  J. C. Sanders  and  H. H. Baxter were then ap-
pointed a committee to report the expression of the meet-
ing, and reported as follows :

  The death of Dr. Constantine Hering, which occurred in Phil-
adelphia,  on the 23d of July  last, impresses us with mingled re-
joicing, sorroAV, and sense of loss.
  We are constrained to rejoice  that in Divine compassion by
which his death  A\as  unheralded, and  sudden, he Avas spared the
painful  consciousness  of decrepit  powers,  usually inseparable
from the  frosty age into  Avhich his years were mercifully length-
ened, and the sense of suffering and anguish,  so common to mor-
tal life and death.   We rejoice that to him were vouchsafed such
extraordinary physical strength and  endurance, such  splendid
mental endowments, and such an  evident Divine calling to the
profession to which he gave his life.
  We rejoice that  in the great diversity and range of his study
and Avork, he ahvays proved loyal to the great Master whose dis-
ciple he Avas, and Avhom he faithfully folloAved.
  And Ave rejoice that all his great  powers, and  distinguished 
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study and Avork were consecrated to the discovery, and determin-
ing the best and surest means of relief and cure of human sick-
ness and suffering, and that he unselfishly and freely gave to the
profession at large Avhatever he regarded valuable in the products
of his study and thought, and therefore that his name is written
imperishably,
      "Where they who have loved their fellow-men, have names,
       Whom the love of God has blessed."
  But we sorroAv Avith his kin that we shall see his genial face no
more, or hear his winsome voice, or feel  his inspiring presence, or
have our paths lighted by another thought from his earnest, hal-
lowed mind.
  And this is  the great and  irreparable loss we personally, and
as a profession deplore, a loss  which leaves an ineffaceable shadow
upon all who knew him, all Avho loved him, all to Avhom his name
is dear.

   Dr. D. H.  BeckAvith  then made the following remarks :

  Mr. President:—I desire to say a feAV words in regard to the
event which has caused this Society to assemble here to-night, in
grief,  in  sorrow, in honor, and  respect.  A few years since Ave
mourned the loss of John Wheeler, M.D., who died  in this  city,
ripe in years and full of honor.   Our next call was to the mem-
ory of William E.  Saunders, M.D., who passed away in the
spring-time of life, with brilliant prospects for the future before
him.
  We are called  once more to bow with submission to the in-
scrutable Avill  of Him, in whose  hands  are the issues of life and
death, to mourn the loss  of one who, during a long  career, has
distinguished himself in our  profession  as a Avriter, a translator,
a teacher, a practitioner of medicine, and a prover of remedies.
That mysterious roll of human fate slowly unfolds her book, page
after page, guided by the unerring  hand of time, and calls us,
one by one, to  a sphere of higher existence.  It  Avould  be a 
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strange neglect on the part of the medical profession if we should
give no formal expression of our  grief and sorrow at the death
of one who has done so much for us all, and, Avhile we mourn the
loss of this great man, Ave may also rejoice that such a man lived
in our day.  No future can rob him of his history, and for many
years  his  name shall be cherished and  his works be emulated.
Like the falling  leaves of this  beautiful October day, many of
our physicians pass off from the  stage of existence, and no public
record is made of them, while,  on the other  hand, history takes
up our great men and holds them as precious jewels on her pages,
embalms them in her records, and perpetuates their memory to
generations yet unborn.
  The profession Avill agree with me, Avithout a dissenting voice,
that Constantine Hering Avas a man of application to that science
he loved so Avell.   In his writings he had a keenness of vision, a
power of observation  accorded  but to few.   He  Avas  devoted to
his profession for over half a century, studying  it always as a
science,  and  practicing  Homoeopathy as taught by   Samuel
Hahnemann.
  When I call up  the name of him whom we eulogize to-night,
it seems to me that he was an old good friend of mine,  that he
was one of my teachers of Homoeopathy thirty years ago.  At
that time  his name Avas familiar to all the homoeopathic physi-
cians of the West.   In the year 1850 and  1851 there were but
few homoeopathic publications and books in the English language.
  Among those in  my library were:
  1st. " Hering's Domestic Physician."
  2d. " Samuel Hahnemann's Organon of Homoeopathic Medi-
cine," translated in the year 1849 from the last German  edition,
with suggestions and  additional introductory remarks, by Con-
stantine Hering, M.D.
  3d. " How to Study Materia  Medica, and the Effects of the
Poison of  Serpents."
  4th. "Chronic Diseases, their Specific Nature and Homoeo-
pathic Treatment," Avith a preface written by Constantine Hering. 
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  5th. " Jahr's Manual of Homoeopathic  Medicine," in two vol-
umes, with improvements and additions by C. Hering.
  Also  "Jahr's NeAV Manuel  of  Symptomen  Codex," of over
2000 pages, in tAVO Arolumes, with a preface from Hering Avritten •
in 1848.  (I regard this Avork of great value to the practitioner,
as well as to the student of medicine.)
  In February, 1851, the first  number Avas issued of the North
American Homoeopathic Journal, a quarterly  magazine of 148
pages, devoted  to practical  and scientific articles.   Constantine
Hering Avas the editor-in-chief, and  each number contained several
articles from his pen.
  From book  acquaintance I  had formed an exalted idea of
Hering as a Avriter  and teacher of Homoeopathy.  He was re-
garded, as a  practitioner  of medicine, second to none.  In  the
year  1863 I formed his  personal acquaintance, and since  that
date haA'e often met him.  He Avas a ripe scholar, refined by study,
cultivated by extensive foreign  travel,  and familiar Avith most of
the leading homoeopathists of the Old World.   He was at most
times able and Avilling to instruct those  Avho were thrown  in
contact Avith him.
  I regarded him  as a man of positive qualities, untiring in his
labors for his profession and true to  the principles of Homoe-
opathy.  I Avell recollect a call  at his office several years ago; he
was not in his usual  social mood, but seemed very indignant that
so many homoeopathic practitioners in Philadelphia had deviated
from the teachings of Hahnemann  and were practicing a mongrel
system of medicine.
  He exhibited to me a list of  homoeopaths on one page and the
other class on  the opposite  one.  He Avas so positive in his re-
marks in regard to their practice,  that I yet recollect the names
as they appeared on  the different pages.   It Avas a source of deep
regret to him that so much eclecticism was practiced by those who
were  so intimately  associated  with him  in college and  other
Avork.
  Mr. President, we all might have asked that a man so intel- 
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lectual, so gifted in character, so  true to  his profession, might
have been spared a little longer to have finished the work he Avas
engaged in  and so near completed, but  the Great Physician
called him to a nobler and higher sphere for his future labors.
  Waiving  on  this occasion  all utterances of private  sorrow,
we unite this evening Avith  our  brethren  in other cities, at this
hour assembled, in placing high  on the roll of professional honor
the name of Constantine Hering.
  Dr.  Clausen moved the adoption  of the resolutions,
Avhich motion was carried, and the meeting adjourned.
       MEETING IN  DENVER, COLORADO.
  The Hering Memorial meeting was held in Denver at
the residence of Dr. Ambrose S.  Everett, Drs.  Burnham,
Cole,  Everett, Eastman, Hart, Smythe and Wheeler, of
Denver, and Dr. Piepgras, of Loveland, being present.
  The meeting was called to order by Dr. Everett, Avho
read the circular letter of the Hering Memorial Commit-
tee, and stated the object of the meeting.  He then nomi-
nated  Dr.  Smythe, who  was  elected  chairman of the
meeting.  On motion of Dr. Wheeler, Dr. A. L. Cole was
elected secretary.
  Dr. Everett then read letters of regret from Drs. Aaron
Walker, of Denver, C. C. Brace, of Boulder, L. E. Marsh,
of Greeley, and W. R. Owens, of Pueblo.
  On motion of Dr. Everett, a committee was appointed
to draft resolutions in  honor of and respect for the  de-
ceased.  As such  committee the chair  then  appointed 
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 Drs.  Everett,  Wheeler, and Hart, who reported  the fol-
 lowing resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:

   Whereas, After a very long and useful life, and at a ripe old
 age, it has pleased Almighty God to  remove from the scenes of
 his earthly toils and labors that venerable father of homoeopathic
 medicine on this side of the Atlantic, that kind-hearted and genu-
 ine friend, that  excellent citizen and  devoted husband and  father,
 Dr. Constantine Hering; therefore, be it
   Resolved, That Ave return thanks to the Father of us all  for the
 great measure of his  days, and for the blessings Avhich  Ave have
 inherited by reason of his long and useful life; and be it
   Resolved, That the  void Ave feel and the  loss Ave sustain shall
 but stimulate  us to reneAved industry for  and devotion  to that
 school of medicine to which he Avas so much attached, and for
 Avhich he gaA-e all the years of his manhood; and  be it
   Resolved, That Ave pledge ourselves to keep his grave green and
 his memory fresh in the hearts of his medical brethren Avhere the
 lofty mountains and the broad plains meet; and be it
   Resolved, That Ave, as the representatives of Homoeopathy  in this,
 the Centennial State, tender to the family of our deceased brother
 all the sympathy and  consolation that  it is possible for those im-
 bued Avith human impulses to bestow.

   Pending the adoption of the foregoing resolutions, the
 following addresses in honor of  the late Dr. Hering were
 made.  Dr. Burnham  spoke as follows:

   Fourteen years ago last August I first met Dr. Hering in his
home  in Philadelphia.  I found him a genial, generous-hearted,
painstaking man, whose ambition and highest aspirations pointed
to the present and future  growth of the  principles and  practice
of Homoeopathy.
  As a man, one of the noblest types of his nationality by birth, 
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and  Avhose  life  career  has adorned and made illustrious the
nationality of his adoption.
  As a scientist, the  genius of his superior abilities  numbered
him  among those of the largest attainments.
  As a theorist, he largely possessed the ability to prove and
practically apply in science and medicine.
  As a writer and author on medical subjects, he Avas one of the
ablest and most industrious of his time.
  As a practitioner of the healing  art, his eminent success gave
him  a Avorld-Avide reputation.
  As a pioneer of Homoeopathy in America, he has lived to see
it rise from  small beginnings, when its  practitioners  could  be
counted upon his fingers' ends, to be numbered by thousands, and
Avhose  patrons are found among the most cultured, refined, and
wealthy of the land, and whose  literature, limited though  it was
in the primitive days of Homoeopathy, yet founded upon a prin-
ciple as fixed and as potent as the fiat of its creation, has groAvn
with its growth and strengthened Avith its strength, until it occu-
pies  no inferior place in the annals of medical science; Avhose in-
stitutions of learning, started first by his enterprise, nurtured by
his care, as  a lone  representative for the teaching of the  prin-
ciples of the new science and art  in medicine,  are now to  be
found in nearly all of the large  cities of the continent.
  Of all the names of the worthy feAV of the pioneers, none have
contributed to render the literature and  practice of Homoeopathy
more illustrious than Constantine Hering.
  I consulted him on one occasion Avith reference to a patient in
Avhom I had an  especial interest (it being my other and better
half), and, after making a careful  and critical examination, he
invited me to his private study to review the case  further, and
proceeded to make an exhaustive investigation.  His  manner of
study, his thoroughness  in analyzing a case (so in contrast Avith
many  whom I have  met in  the profession,  possessed  of more
assumption than wisdom, Avho  Avould deign to study a case only
as a marked exception), impressed  my  mind most forcibly as to 
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the necessity of a thorough and accurate knoAvledge of patholog-
ical conditions, symptoms, and remedy, before prescribing.  In
the course of that investigation  he remarked to me, " Let us
apply the triangular test, and  if Ave can find three important or
characteristic  symptoms pointing to one remedy, let me  assure
you that Ave can prescribe it Avith almost unerring certainty."  I
havTe tested its application in hundreds of cases, and Avhen clearly
defined, it seldom fails  to fulfil its mission.  As an  aid  in my
investigations, I have kept faithfully in view the illustration of
the triangle, the trinity of symptoms, in the selection of a remedy,
with the  motto inscribed within the boundaries  of its lines and
angles so appropriately expressed:  " By this sign Ave conquer."
  And noAV, felloAV-members of the profession, let us one and all
strive more fully to emulate the example of him in Avhose memory
we have assembled here to-night, illustrious in not only a few, but
in many things;  working so faithfully in the cause so self-sacri-
ficingly espoused, even to the very day and hour Avhen his spirit
Avas  summoned to  leave this earthly tabernacle, to come  up
higher; inscribing his name among the highest on the triangular
pyramid  of  fame, Avreathed  Avith a  galaxy  of time-honored
achievements, Avhose lustre  shall  brighten  as the days Avear on
and the years roll by, to be croAvned with an immortal inheritance.
  While thousands are assembled  in their respective places of
abode, on this day  and this  hour, throughout the  length and
breadth of the land, to do honor to his name—fitting tribute to
one so  noble  and so worthy—I will  gladly express,  in the lan-
guage of another, a sentiment: "May  his memory  grow green
with years, and blossom through the flight of ages."

  Dr.  A. L. Cole then  arose  and  made  the   following
remarks:

  The spirit of man takes its  departure from the body, the life-
less tissues return to the elements from which they   originated;
the atomic re-arrangement of these elements convert  them again
into living organisms, and man once dead again lives. 
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  The transitory stage from life to death is not one of fear, pain,
or agony; not of anguish or regret, but calmly the vital forces
ebb aAvay, the combination of vital organs cease to perform their
functions, the vitalizing fluid ceases to  circulate, respiration is
suspended, and all that Avas once a living, animate being is trans-
formed to a lifeless structure.
  Man is but a mass of matter, the feeblest in nature; yet hoAV
mighty when compared Avith  all else of the animal creation.
This element we see in men like  Hering, feeble in  muscular
development as compared with others, yet yielding an intellectual
power  Avhich commands the respect, loAre, and admiration  of their
strongest brothers.  He Avill live in the minds of  men; although
literally  dead, his  memory is  ahvays fresh,  his career  bright,
beautiful and pure, like the rich, sparkling diamond.
  He lived for the good of man, in order that this world might
be beautiful from his having lived in it, and to this end a greater
portion of his valuable life  Avas given  up to the Avork  for  the
benefit of others.  He lived an honest, upright, modest life, tem-
perate in his habits, pleasant and  gentlemanly  to those  who
sought his acquaintance, and aiding many Avithout remuneration,
to the great detriment of himself.
  His  home was in his study, the ornaments of Avhich Avere vol-
umes  of manuscript;  there  he loved to  devote his  hours in
gathering the products of thinking minds the world over, of
ascertaining their accuracy, and arranging them into convenient
form for us to digest.
  And so he succeeded admirably, the products Avhich from the
result  of his great mind  are to be found in  the library of his
fellow-laborers of every land, cherished by their possessors as
only the works  of Hering can be  cherished, and more  valued
than the wealth  of gold and jewels.
  For the noble  work performed by him  we this day assemble to
commemorate his life, and may his  memory be cherished by all.
May Ave spare one moment in thought for him, and when in our
library Ave ponder over  his master-work  in search of knoAvledge 
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that will enable us to saA^e the life of some poor creature entrusted
to our care, let us praise Hering for his great work.

   Dr. Emma Eastman  followed with the  following  re-
marks :

   Examining a placer  mine and  hearing a miner say that he
Avanted its gold, but it would not pay to  Avork it, reminds one of
American scholars Avho bend all their energies to the test question
—Avill it pay?  If it pays, they burn the midnight oil and  use
their brain power without stint  or measure; but if not, the Yan-
kee seizes upon the results of others and often robs the laborious
student of his hardly won honors.
   It is not  so Avith the Germans.   They are willing to delve for
the grains of golden truth until their accumulations are the envy
of all nations.
   Pre-eminent among such miners was Dr. Constantine Hering.
While a student he became so renowned for his profound scholar-
ship and for his bitter hostility to  Homoeopathy, that he Avas ap-
pointed to expose the fallacy of the doctrine of "Similia similibus
curantur."  Like a true scholar he investigated and experimented
for himself, until he was Avon over to the new  theory of medicine
and  Avrote  a thesis,  " De Medicina Futura," in  Avhich he  ex-
pounded and maintained  the  doctrine  of Hahnemann in  the
great University of Wiirzburg, where he  graduated.
   Thus Avas the seed soAvn Avhich will make the name of Hering
go doAvn to the ages groAving  brighter  and  brighter unto  the
perfect day.

   Dr. L. J. Ingersoll addressed  the  meeting in the  follow-
ing  words:

  A great and a good man  has fallen.  Dr. Hering was great as
a student, as a scientist, and as a benefactor.  He was great as a
leader of a most beneficent profession;  great,  as an organizer of 
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a comparatively new school of medicine; great because he made
few mistakes;  great because, while he excelled others in breadth
and in an exactness of knowledge, he Avas held as an enemy by
none.  He Avas great by nature and great by culture.
  Dr. Hering Avas good because, while " cultivating earnestly the
best gifts" for  himself, he strove " through good and through evil
report" to lead all men up into a higher and a better life;  good
because, Avhile he acquired all the knoAvledge he could that Avould
relieve the suffering and keep the well from sickness, he used his
skill not for self, but for the good of all who would receive.
  And noAV that Dr. Constantine Hering has gone from  among
us, Ave shall do well to  gather up what of wisdom he has left us,
remembering he has Avritten nothing that ought to be forgotten.
  While Ave lament that one so  great and good should have been
called up  higher from so needful a work, I am most  thankful
that he lived so long and did so much for his race—hoAV much,
Ave can never know.  As physicians we can never cease to  cherish
his memory, or forget the gracious heritage he has left us in his
unsurpassable  Materia Medica.
  Hering  is dead, but his Avorks and words live to bless mankind.
The stream that rose among the hills of Germany so  many years
ago, and which for half a century blessed our Western continent,
has peacefully found its way back to  its source.   That life that
sent  sunshine  and joy into so many sick-rooms, and brought
health to so many aching hearts, has at last gone out in the still
brighter glory of the redeemed.  He, Avho saved so  many  from
the destroyer,  could not save himself.   Hering cheerfully passed
away as one conscious of having dried many tears and of  having
turned sighs into joy.
  Who  of all the thousands that remain will take the place of
this fallen chief, this great and  good  "Master of Homoeopathy"
in America?  I can say to every brother physician and to every
patient, "I have lost a teacher to-day." 
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  Dr. Ambrose S. Everett then said:

  I have knoAvn Dr. Constantine Hering, whose genius and whose
life-Avork they meet to-night all over the world to commemorate,
personally for nearly fifteen years, and since my first acquaintance
Avith  this Hercules of our  school of medicine, I have never
allowed myself to visit Philadelphia Avithout calling upon him.
  While I  do not now realize that he has gone from the scenes
of his earthly labors, and that the places that  once  kneAV  him
shall  know him no more forever,  yet I have  no doubt,  Avhen I
come  to visit Philadelphia again, I  shall miss him, and his absence
from the field of battle and the  bivouac of professional life will
come  home to me  in language  far more eloquent and pathetic
than I can  noAV conceive or express.  Of this  I  can assure you,
that I never called upon him that I  did not find  him the same
affable, courteous, and  hospitable gentleman.  He ahvays ad-
dressed me in terms of respect, and in language that shoAved that
I was not only a Avelcome guest at  his house, but  that he bore for
me  an affection born of a true and lofty manhood.  I have also
seen him entertain others, and can say for and of him  that he
ahvays made his visitors feel at home, and all that  he had in the
Avay of entertainment Avas theirs.  No  matter how young or hum-
ble his visitor in professional rank, that visitor Avas made to feel
before he left that in Dr. Hering's character and make-up there
was no  such  thing as caste  or rank.   In manner  he Avas simple
and unostentatious.   He ne\rer  paraded his knoAvledge  or dis-
played his  learning for the mere sake of show, nor did he try to
impress one Avith the greatness of his  character or  genius.
  He spared no pains or  expense  in  shoAving his admiration for
and his attachment to his medical  confreres.
  While there is much  in  his life and character  to respect, ad-
mire,  and venerate, yet there is one  trait  that  strikes me Avith
peculiar interest, and that  is  his  life-long devotion to a single
object and a  single purpose.  This trait stands  out more boldly
and more pronounced than all others.
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  What he accomplished in the field of Materia Medica by this
oneness of aim proves that  the first great law of success is con-
centration.  He bent all his energies to one point, went directly
to that point, and looked neither to the right nor left. He shoAved
great wisdom in daring to leave many things unknoAvn, and  prac-
tical common sense in leaving other things untouched.  If I study
this trait of his  character aright, he was impressed  Avith the fact
that life was too short and art too long and too valuable for uni-
versal  scholarship.   The range of medical thought and  knowl-
edge is so vast and extensive that no one brain can  encompass it
or grapple with it as an entirety.  Therefore, if Ave  Avould knoAV
one department of medicine  well we must have the courage  to be
ignorant of some others, however attractive or inviting they may
appear.  If we would succeed as did Hering, we must single out
our specialty and pour the whole stream of our life into it.  No
name has been longer or more intimately connected  with homoeo-
pathic interests and homoeopathic literature than that of  our de-
ceased brother, Dr.  Constantine Hering.  Certainly  none is  more
widely knoAvn, more generally honored,  or  more universally
beloved.
  For nearly the whole period  of his life  he  has  devoted and
consecrated all the energies of his mind  and body to the unfold-
ing  of homoeopathic truth, and to the dissemination and elevation
of its principles.
  Even in old age he did not seek the rest and retirement which
his  years justified  and  his  health demanded.   But he,  full of
love for and devotion to his chosen school of medicine, worked on
Avith such well-directed zeal  as to merit  the highest respect and
admiration of all  succeeding generations.   Although dead,  he
still  lives in the books  and Avorks which he has left, and which
are  ours to inherit and enjoy.  These are his voice, coming  to us
from out of the  grave of the past, floating on the tide of  time,
and breathing forth the fire  of his  youth and the Avisdom of his
riper and more matured years. 
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  Dr.  Piepgras,  of Loveland, then made the  following
address:

  Providence has called one of our dearest and greatest members
to eternity, and Ave Avish to express the deep grief Avhich wells up
from the depth of our heart.
  The name of Constantine Hering will be spoken with reverence
by every true  honiceopath down to remotest time, as he was  a
champion of truth in  medicine, and one of the chief pillars of
our school in Europe as Avell  as in America.   I am sure every
adATocate  of the truths of Homoeopathy will  love his memory
until he joins him above.
  I never enjoyed the honor  of his personal  acquaintance, but
kneAV much about him through my master, Dr. Arthur Lutze,
noAV deceased, and also by his Avritings.
  I may be permitted to mention a little anecdote, which may be
neAV to  you, and will give a pleasant remembrance of our dear
departed.
  " Whilst traveling in Germany," says Dr. Hering, " I one day
came to a village, the proprietor of Avhich invited me to spend the
night at his house, in place of putting up at the inn.  He was a
rich old gentleman, a  great original, always an invalid, having
ennui and good Avine to a  great extent.  Learning that I was a
young medical man, about to  commence my travels, he told me
he Avould sooner make his son  a hangman than a doctor.  On my
expressing surprise at the observation, he produced a large book,
saying that it Avas now tAventy years since  he first became ill in
body but not in mind; that tAvo doctors of celebrity, Avhom he
then consulted, had quarrelled about his disease, and  that, con-
sequently, he had employed neither of them nor their medicines,
but that he had registered  the affair in his book.  Then, after
finding that the disease did not get better, he set out on his travels,
resolved, if he could find three doctors who  perfectly agreed upon
his case without any hesitation, to alloAV himself to  be treated by
them, but never by any other.   For this purpose he had consulted 
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at first all physicians  of any reputation, and afterwards others
Avhose names  Avere less known, but having, in spite of all his
sufferings, never abandoned his first resolution, and keeping an
exact account of every consultation in a book for the purpose, he
neATer succeeded in finding any who agreed respecting his case.
Accordingly,  not  having folloAved the  advice of any,  he still
remained an invalid, but he was  still alive.   As may be  well
supposed, the book cost him a pretty sum of money.
  " This book had the appearance of a ledger in large folio, and
Avas kept in the form  of tables.   In the first column Avere the
names of the physicians, amounting to 477 ;  in the second, those
of the disease, with explanations concerning its nature, of these
there were 313, differing radically from each other; in the  third
column Avere the remedies  proposed, these consisted of 832 pre-
scriptions, containing  in all 1097  remedies.  The sum total ap-
peared at the end of each page.
  " He took up a pen, and  said  cooly: ' Won't  you prescribe
something for me?' But having no great inclination  to do so, I
only asked if Hahnemann was not in his list.   With  a smile he
turned to No. 301, name of the disease O, remedy prescribed O.
' That Avas the Avisest of the lot,' he cried, ' for he said that the
name of the disease did not concern him, and that the name of
the remedy did not concern me, but that the cure Avas the essen-
tial point.'  ' But  why,' I inquired, ' did you not allow him to
treat you ?'   ' Because,' he  replied, ' he was but one, and I must
have three Avho agree.'
  " I asked him if he were willing to sacrifice some hundred francs
for an experiment, in which case I should be able  to mention not
three, but thirty-three physicians living in the neighborhood, and
in countries  and parts of the world Avidely separate, Avho should
all be of one opinion.   He expressed his  doubts, but at the same
time resolved to undertake the trial.  We then made out  a de-
scription of  his symptoms, and Avhen the  copies Avere finished, Ave
sent them  to thirty-three  homoeopathic  practitioners.   He in-
closed  a louis d'or  in each letter, begging each  physician to name 
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 the remedies Avhich were capable of curing, or at least of alle-
 viating his disease.
   "A short time since I received a cask of Bhenish, of the vintage
 of 1822.  ' I send you Avine of the year 1822/ he wrote, ' because
 twenty-tAvo  physicians  agreed  respecting my case.   I thereby
 perceive that  there is certainty  in  some things in this world.
 I  have got various Avorks on the subject, in  order  to gain in-
 formation upon it.   Out of about two hundred medicines, twenty-
 two  physicians have fixed upon  the same remedy.  One  could
 not expect more.  The physician  nearest me has  got  me under
 his care, and I send you  the wine that  I may not  be tempted to
 drink too much from joy at seeing my health improving from day
 to day.'"


   Dr. C. N. Hart then spoke as follows:

   Colleagues:—There is a beautiful and ancient custom in the
 land of my ancestors, Avhich causes each  person upon the  high-
 way  to uncover the head as a funeral procession passes, whether
 the deceased is known or not.  This  evening we with thousands
 of our brethren, of all schools, assembled  in all parts of the
 world, have met to pay a tribute  to the memory of a  great and
 good man who has passed away—Dr. Constantine Hering.
  Let us rejoice that his life upon earth was  one of social and
 intellectual enjoyment, and that upon passing onward he has left
 us and future generations such Avorks as time cannot destroy.
  After  a  long  period  of the highest service to his Maker and
 mankind, both in Germany and America, he has passed onward
 to a higher and brighter  sphere, "ossa bene qui eneant."
  In the words of the great and lamented Dunham, the study  of
 his life has been  " not fabrics, nor  Avares, nor  stocks, the works or
 machinations of men, but the noblest  of God's creation—that
which He made in  His own image—the body and mind of man."
He was to both  old and young kind and affectionate, and alike
teacher and friend.   Envy and malice had no part in his career, 
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but Avith his one hand as an index pointing onward and his other
as a  support to those  acquiring knowledge, he lived and died.
And  thus may all strive to emulate this noble man avIio lived and
died  in love and honor.

   On motion the meeting was adjourned.
       MEETING IN MINNEAPOLIS,  MINN.
  In obedience to the call for the holding of a meeting
in memory of the late Constantine Hering, the Hahne-
mann Society for Hennepin County, Minnesota, held an
adjourned  session on the evening  of October 10th, 1880.
Dr. William E. Leonard, a graduate of the  Hahnemann
Medical College, of Philadelphia, spoke of the last hours
of the great man so recently departed, and related many
pleasant  and touching reminiscences of  personal inter-
course with  him.   Subsequent  remarks  were  made by
others  present, and  finally  Dr.  S. P. Starritt,  who  had
been appointed for this duty, made the following address:

  It is customary  upon the death  of an individual, however
humble, to present some form of testimonial, recounting the rela-
tions of the deceased to society.
  Naturally, the more noted the individual, the more public and
demonstrative the tribute.
  The idea is primitive and general.  We see it among even sav-
age and barbarous peoples, where skill, courage and  prowess of
the  fallen is cited to the surviving for emulation, and as special
traits of distinction.
  Among the semi-barbarous and semi-civilized, Ave find  these 
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relations embodied in fervid and glowing apostrophe, the lay of
the minstrel, the rude but heroic song.
  Among civilized and cultivated nations, witness the sermons,
biographies, the finished and studied epic verse,  " the towering
monument, sculptured bust, and storied urn."
  To-night, friends, without pomp, we come in an humbler, but
no less sincere way, to pay our tribute to the life and services of
one of earth's  greatest sons,  Avho has recently been  called to
another home, to a higher and ampler sphere.
  Abraham  was accounted Avorthy to  be called the " Father of
the Faithful," because at God's call he left country, kindred and
home, to go into a strange land, Avhich Avas yet to be shown him,
having faith in Him avIio promised that he wras to be the " father
of a great nation."
  Him AA'hom Ave honor to-night, God called in no  less audible
voice, " Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and
from thy father's house, unto a land  that I will show thee, and I
will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make
thy name great."
  The lives of both these great men have become historic, and
history has but proved the truth of prophecy.
  Father Hering,  as he was truthfully and  affectionately called
by a great army of co-workers, in his early youth Avas taught how
to think, and no higher encomium, through his long and studious
life, could be found, than he knows how to think.
  Graduating  Avith  distinction  from one of the  great German
Universities, he first essayed to teach mathematics, but a  fond-
ness or an instinct for medicine led him to  acquire  what was
taught in the schools.
  Like all men of  great force, profound convictions and energetic
will, he espoused the established and  so-called "regular" practice
with zeal, and  was Avont to  persecute what  he afterward with
great zeal embraced and advocated.
  From the versatility of his acquirements he was selected by his             »
confreres to controvert and annihilate a new and progressive sys- 
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tern of healing, Avhich Avas forcing its Avay into public recognition
and favor.  Investigation led to wonder, wonder  to admiration,
but Avhile still  doubting he became a sufferer, and  after trying
the appliances  of the  old system  Avithout relief,  he sought the
neAV and Avas healed.  Thus through suffering did he become a
believer, was converted, and, after practically demonstrating the
truth of the new art, he became the great apostle of Homoeopathy
to the Gentiles.
   Eminent  for his attainments in science, his  government ap-
pointed him naturalist of a scientific expedition  bound for the
southern continent of the NeAV World.
   Ostracised at home  for his  neAV faith, and possessed  with the
divine  instinct of emigration, he eagerly embraced the offer ten-
dered by government, and with the characteristic ardor of young
manhood, he discharged the duties to which he Avas assigned.
   MeanAvhile, not content with the knoAvledge already acquired
by the New School of Medicine for healing the sick, he began to
inquire hoAV he could add to the list of remedial agents, and best
disseminate their mode of application.
   While rendering signal service to his country, he, perhaps, ren-
dered his greatest service to mankind, by introducing into medi-
cine, Avith its indications, the virus of the Lachesis trigonocepha-
lus, Avhich, from  its healing properties in  the hands of our great
army  of practitioners, has  become one of the greatest  of our
mighty polychrests.
   On his return home, while visiting some of the largest cities of
the North, it is said  that in Philadelphia he received the diviner
impulse, which led him to  conclude that there Avas indeed the
"promised land."
   The Old World may boast that it gave us a Hering, but the
New World can  reply, not  so; for his  potentiality only became
reality under the inspiration  and  progressiveness of  the New.
Here, cut off from the peculiar bent of  the European mind to
follow  custom and precedent, he strikes  out boldly upon  a neAV
course, and Avith the intrepidity of an explorer he never deviates, 
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but so amplifies and gives so many fixed and reliable data, that
it  makes  it comparatively easy for his successors to follow the
same route.
  There is ever an element of moral  courage  and greatness in
those  Avho discover or folloAv neAV  truths or paths of Avhich the
general  mind  is ignorant.   The investigator is ahvays a brave
man, and full of the spirit of sacrifice.
  History, is full  of the  sublime  examples  of men Avho have
breasted the tides of opposition arising from ignorance, supersti-
tion, custom, envy and  malice, in  giving  to the world new and
progressive ideas and truths.  History has also given these men
their meed of praise, has placed the laurel upon their brows, and
croAvned them the world's heroes.
  The mind sits enchained  at the daring and hardihood of the
navdgator, sailing a neAV and unknoAvn  expanse, from the rugged
Norsemen of earlier times down to  those of the present, Avho plow
the ice-floe of Arctic seas.  The blood is enkindled at Spartan and
Roman  heroism, and  the sanguinary conflict of Dane, and Pict,
and Scot.  The sublime lessons of patience are taught over the
achievements of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Faraday, Miller, Ful-
ton, Morse, and  hosts  of others, Avho, through great toil, have
added to the  knoAvledge of Nature and her slumbering forces.
What monuments shall Ave rear to the Avorld's martyrs and re-
formers, who, in the domain of moral, civil, and religious conflict,
ha\re  purchased us that liberty which has made all the other
achievements of men possible?
  He whom cardiac paralysis has  just stricken doAvn, in the full
splendor of his hoary age, is not one Avhit behind the greatest of
those to whom we have just referred, for he possessed their spirit,
Avas actuated by the same motives,  and spent his life in the same,
or a kindred cause—the amelioration of his fellow-men.
  Though not the Columbus of Homoeopathy, he followed faith-
fully the chart of the great discoverer.   He extended and ampli-
fied in almost every particular the boundaries of Hahnemann.
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as such, while the theories of his great Master he tested,  and
passed upon their validity.  He analyzed and systematized where
Hahnemann  had  only  generalized;  Hahnemann introduced
Homoeopathy, but it was reserved for the genius of Hering to
raise it to the sublime degree of a distinctive science. Both Avere
great and original explorers.
  It has been indeed always the pride and boast of Homoeopathy,
that it is invested Avith a gift of prevision, that is, given a picture
of a certain malady, the remedy is at once forthcoming, already
provided.   The only limit  is one—human incapacity—inability
to prove all the medicinal agencies of nature, and to retain their
special therapeutic range.   So true is this gift, that it matters not
whether the disease is obscure or known, or Avhether  it be present
or remote.  Thus Hahnemann was enabled by our law of cure, to
point out remedies curative for even the Eastern  Plague,  and
robbed it of its terrors, before he had ever seen a case, or even it
had spread to his own country.  In  like manner could and  did
Hering  for our Southern Plague, the yellow fever.   Both these
great minds went further than this, they indicated  the remedies
preventive, so  as to render even contagion powerless.
  Come now and admire Avith me the moral courage and great-
ness of the man Avho, from  adherence to known  laAV and princi-
ples, not  only  called down upon  himself the odium of  the great
minds that had given him his diversified  instruction, and from
merit has elevated him to confraternity, but also in his emigra-
tion to the NeAV World, the same  odium precedes and  attaches
to him, emanating from kindred sources.   The Cholera from the
distance is advancing, and Hering, true to his convictions, points
out a simple  and efficacious prophylactic, which  only excited
ridicule.   In the streets of his own chosen city and home, see the
rabble and street Arabs pursue him with jeer and scoff, prompted
by those holding the same  distinguished positions as those who
had cast him  off in the Fatherland.  The quiet shrug, or  the
curious look of the more cultivated was no  less cruel  than  the
open scoff of the slums.   But the fatal scourge is come, depopu- 
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lating the city, and " Sulphur Hering " is remembered, and men
noAV, through fear, began to try the efficacy of wearing a spoon-
ful of the flour of sulphur in their stockings, and received immu-
nity from contagion.
   Friends, it requires the  highest order of both physical  and
moral courage, to risk  life calmly in trying to succor others.
Witness the heroic act of a man alone in a  room, Avhence all the
attendants had fled, Avith a box Avhich he has just opened contain-
ing the  most venomous  serpent, the  largest of its species, from
whose glands, after the most mature deliberation, he was to ab-
stract the deadly poison.  See the nerve of the  man, Avho, alert
as is the snake, seizes it just below the head Avith firm grasp, Avhen
with  folds uncoiled, with  reared  head and flaming  eye, forked
tongue and naked fang, it is poised to strike the intrepid soul Avho,
at the risk of life, seeks from its venom the  healing  balm for
earth's sufferers.  AVatch  him adjust  the pointed stick betAveen
the opened jaAvs of the serpent Avhose bite  is certain death, and
whose impotent rage secretes the  deadly saliva,  while  he tanta-
lizes it till it can distil no more poison, Avhen into a jar of alcohol
he thrusts the monster, nor relaxes his grip of steel till life is ex-
tinct.  The poison caught  in a glass is transferred to the mortar
and rubbed Avith sugar of  milk, till his purple and bloated face
and SAvimming brain suspend his eager operation.  Observe him
toss in his fever, note the loquacious delirium as he flits from sub-
ject to  subject, note the  suffocation, the  frantic struggle for
breath, while he clutches and  tears from throat and breast all
clothing; mark his mental  condition,  the anguish and apprehen-
sion, and ask yourselves for whom, for what  does  he this, and
then answer—is he not a hero ?
   Or friends, can  you imagine the sensation of being in a closed
room Avith a rabid dog, bent upon  getting the frothy hydropho-
binum, for the sole purpose of obtaining a remedy for healing the
sick ?  How  would you characterize the  act, courageous or not ?
   Does it not exhibit moral heroism  to assert the truth of a sci-
entific fact in  face of the  denial  of the entire scientific world ? 
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Scientists scoffed at the idea, that  the poisons he procured  and
proved at the jeopardy of life, had any remedial efficacy, because,
forsooth, they had been preserved in alcohol!  " Why," exclaim
they, "we drench  an individual Avith  whiskey when  bitten by
the  crotalus, and it antidotes and prevents systemic poisoning,
and saves the life  of the patient!"  Alcohol antidotes animal
poison, therefore animal poisons preserved in alcohol are rendered
harmless  and inert, and  from the  deductions of such logic the
Avorld hooted at his provings and cures produced by the alcoholic
preparations of his animal poisons,  most notably his Lachesis,  of
Avhich  he had asserted  much.   But he Avas  patient, knowing
Avhereof he had affirmed, and the  scientific  world, after experi-
menting, demonstrated that the hypodermic injection of even the
third centesimal of Lachesis, and even  the still higher dilutions
were destructive to animal life, and after many other and varied
experiments, it was  publicly acknoAvledged that Hering  Avas
right, that animal  poisons preserved in alcohol held still their
poisonous qualities  intact.
   Again, think you it required no moral back-bone to stand  by
the  assertion  that  radiated heat Avas  one of the most efficient
agencies to antidote the poison of wounds Avhatever their origin,
when the world denied and  disbelieved ?  Mark the courage  of
the test!  A man Avith an inoculated arm, swollen, purple, throb-
bing, painful, threatening the loss  of life, will not listen to the
voice of friends and the surgeon,  but  sits  quietly clown in his
kitchen, and thrusts his  arm into the  heated oven, and holds it
there till  the poison is extracted or eliminated, and the member
is reserved for future usefulness, and again, the Avorld, after ex-
perimenting, announces that radiated heat is antidotal to poison-
ous wounds.   Hering was right again.
   Still further, Avitness him walk with quiet dignity into the sick
room, Avhere lies a girl in throes of severest  agony, after the ma-
jor operation of lithotomy, and amid the sneers of the  operator
and other distinguished surgeons summoned in consultation, Avho
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over to the  king of terrors—see him  solicit symptoms from the
sick, and from his inexhaustible fund of knowledge, watch him
pour a feAV pellets  of Staphisagria into Avater and administer  it
to the sufferer.   To the gratification of the sick one  and her
friends, and  to the amazement of the scoffers, the pain is  miti-
gated,  finally assuaged,  and sleep comes  gratefully  to restore
strength, and a precious life is saved.
  These are but a feAV striking instances which serve to illustrate
the timber of the man Avho, by courage and calm demeanor  amid
trying scenes and sacrifices, won public and private esteem, when
Homoeopathy was not to the public Avhat it is to-day,  and forced
the popular  recognition of his system  of healing, obtaining for it
the sanction and protection of the civic law.
  Now it is  comparatively easy for the practitioner to dispense
the blessings of an enlightened Homoeopathy, but what do Ave
not OAve to Father Hering, Avho, by his skill, patience and learn-
ing, and above all  moral courage, overcame the popular ignorance
and prejudice, so that it has passed into a  proverb, that Homoe-
opathy cannot flourish among the ignorant and unthinking, but
numbers  its  adherents  among  the  cultured, thoughtful  and
educated.
  As a scholar and student Hering stands unrivalled in  his  time.
He was authority  in every branch of medicine, and so intimately
was he acquainted, not only Avith medical, but kindred  sciences,
that his thoughts and utterances became books.   His habits and
methods were those of the student.  Accustomed  to rise  very
early in the morning, at three o'clock, he was wont to take a
slice of toast and a cup of coffee, Avhen he would study and  write
till breakfast, at  nine.   After breakfast he would  pursue his
studies further, and attend to his professional duties till evening,
when  he Avould  either pass the time  in continued study or con-
verse with those who desired instruction.   I believe it Avas his
custom to retire about nine in the evening.  He had pre-emi-
nently the genius  for hard  and continuous study, and this sys-
tematic and arduous course he pursued  up to the time of his
demise. 
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  The fruit of such labor is, of course, voluminous, and it is by
authorship that he will be best known to posterity.   He is the
author of many books and monographs, and all of them are the
acknoAvledged standards of our school.  He devoted the greater
portion of his studies to the proving  of drugs, and he has en-
riched our  Materia Medica more than  any other author, Hahne-
mann  not  excepted.  His  Guiding Symptoms is characteristic,
and  no  such full, complete,  and accurate  Avork on Materia
Medica was ever published.  He esteemed it the crowning effort
of his life.   It is the fruit of advanced  age, the product of a
long life of rich  and  varied experience,  united  with the most
profound research and learning.
  One would naturally suppose that  he  Avould  have fallen in
with the prevailing system of German Philosophy, and that his
Avorks, like those of Grauvogl, would  have been  tinctured with
theories  founded  upon philosophical speculation.   But not so.
He brought everything to the touchstone of scientific experiment,
and he Avas Avont to say, " There is no such thing  as belief in sci-
ence.   A property or thing is, or is not."  His method Avas empir-
ical,  perhaps sciential would be the better Avord.   It partook
rather of the inductive system of philosophy than transcendental-
ism.   Transcendentalism Avas to him a horrible Avord, Avith a pro-
longed, rough, guttural roll of the rrs.
  Everything Avas subjected to  trial, and if it did not  stand the
test of experiment,  did not prove a literal  fact, he never strove
to bolster it  up Avith a more plausible theory, but cast it off as
one Avould a useless garment.
  Just a year or tAvo previous  to death, Avhile the writer Avith a
body of students Avas sitting at  his feet, as sat  Paul at the feet of
Gamaliel, he remarked:  "Well, gentlemen, to-day I  have lost
one of my best beloved children.  For  more than twenty years I
have  been  collecting facts  and  data to establish a pet theory of
mine,  and  I Avas about to publish and give  the results to the
world, when to-day I have  fully decided that it cannot stand the
test of scientific experiment,  and so I have buried it  out of. my 
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sight.  Not Avithout a pang, gentlemen, but as my theory is not
true, that is the end of it."
  His mind Avas both analytical and synthetical.  He Avas a tall
man, sun-croAvned in the light of knowledge; a man of capacious
soul, gigantic brain, an  intellect of colossal proportions.  That
Avhich  seemed  veiled to other men Avas  to him luminous  with
light.  In his capacious mind truth alone was sought, discovered,
seized upon, made incarnate and disseminated over sea, island
and continent, till it became the common  heritage.
  But it  Avas as an instructor or lecturer that he surpassed him-
self.   Brimful, overfloAving with knowledge, he was just as eager
to impart as to acquire.  Give him respectful attention, and he
Avould  forsake  every other  duty and proceed to talk or  lecture
Avithout note of time, and I assure you  he was as tireless as  time
itself.  He has been knoAvn to forget fatigue and rest and sit up
all night  to  instruct some practitioner Avho Avished either to be
led into, or receive more light in the sublime degrees of Homoe-
opathy.   Even in the last years of his life his eye would kindle
in the presence of a body of students, his mind unfold and truth
would  come forth robed in  beauty, and  not till the long hours
Avere passed and even not then, unless solicited to cease and rest,
Avould  he think of retiring.  The  totality of the symptoms  and
the single remedy corresponding  to that totality  Avere his  tAvo
Avatcfnvords.
  He Avas a kind and  affectionate father and husband, a  good
citizen, but a citizen of no  particular  country.  He owed alle-
giance to  the world.
  More  given to  imparting knoAvledge and  ameliorating the
sufferings of the race than to the acquirement of wealth, he  laid
up for himself the true riches.  He achieved more than fame—he
Avas great.   His  kind and beneficent  deeds,  the truths  he dis-
covered and established, the sacrifices he made and  his arduous
toil, guide us in the divine art of healing.
  He died full of years, honored and respected by even his ad-
versaries.   A  long life  of usefulness  has been spent.   We are 
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fatherless.  His sun is but set to us, only to rise and shine Avith
greater and undimmed lustre in a fairer and boundless horizon.
  Truly  of him it can  be said in the language of old: "And
thou shalt be a blessing, and in thee shall all the families of  the
earth be blessed."
  Friends, the unfolding of the prophetic scroll shall fully estab-
lish history, for already has he become the " father  of a  great
nation."
MEMORIAL  ADDRESS TO KANSAS PHYSICIANS.

  The  following address was read  at a meeting  of the
physicians of Kansas, at Topeka, by Dr. Henry W. Roby:

  Friends:—There is a pause in  our  labors; a  break in our
ranks; a shade on the Stygian river.  Constantine Hering, the
pupil and intimate friend of Hahnemann;  the venerable Nestor
of Homoeopathy in America ; the unrivalled scholar, philosopher
and  author  in the new school  of medicine; the most successful
practitioner, and  the  ablest medical counselor of this  age, has
gone to his final rest at the mature age of eighty-one years.  And
yet,  as  Avas said  of the great statesman Thiers, "He died too
young by a score of years."
  Like  Goethe's, his grandest works Avere his last.   His massive
brain and untiring hands had nearly finished the crowning glory
of his life-work—the most masterly piece of medical authorship
ever given to the world.
  Like  the immortal Lincoln, he  died before God or circum-
stances  had created a successor large enough to fill his place in
the world.  But  nature is rich in compensatory laAVS.   The
cause Avhich creates a great leader, like a  Luther, a Bonaparte,
a Thiers, a Bismarck, a Washington, a Lincoln, or  a Hahnemann
in one  age  or generation, will be  carried  forward through the
succeeding ages or generations by their disciples  and  followers. 
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A great leader in the cause  of the tAvin-sisters, humanity  and
Homoeopathy, has but recently died in Philadelphia, and to-day
physicians by thousands and their patrons by millions, scattered
all over  the world, sincerely mourn his death.  But there is left
to us  this consolation  that the  cause Avhich  he led  is strong
enough at his death, and well enough officered, to march steadily
fonvard to final and  glorious triumph, Avithout the further in-
spiration  of  a great individual leadership.    So, a detachment
buries the fallen leader and decorates his  grave, Avhile the great
army marches on Avithout halting, for the cause is greater than the
leader.
   As inductive philosophy no longer  needs a Lord  Bacon for
leader, or astronomy a Galileo or Copernicus, so Homoeopathy no
longer needs the personal inspiration of Hahnemann, its original
grand master in Europe, or Hering, his co-laborer in  America.
It noAV marches steadily oiiAvard to the drum-beat of principle
under the inspiration of a  demonstrated and ever demonstrable
truth.  AVhenever truth involves enough  of human interest to
start  it on its  march  around  the  Avorld, if it  does not  find in
Avaiting a man  sufficiently  large for a captain-general, it takes
one from the common walks of life and enlarges him sufficiently
for the great Avork of leadership.
   And  Nature  seems to have  no regular  rule for the choice of
men for leaders.  She takes a tinker, a printer, a cobbler, a  rail-
splitter, a tanner, or a student, and so sharpens his vision  that
he can see the new truth Avhich is marching along through his
day and generation, so  enlarges  his intellect that he  can grasp
and hold the truth, and so  shapes and energizes his tongue  and
pen that he can shoAV to the Avorld the strength and beauty of the
principle he has apprehended,  and its correlations to other great
truths in the  Avorld.   In one case she takes a mechanic, puts  him
into  a bath-tub which  overfloAvs, and he  straightAvay  leaps out
and cries "Eureka!  Eureka!"  In another she leads a dreamer
into an orchard and drops an apple at  his feet, and in the light
of that falling apple he finds the law of gravity.
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  She takes a school-master of Padua, sets him "star-gazing," and
his  trembling  tongue informs an astonished world that all the
heavenly bodies, our earth included, are  Avheeling through im-
mense orbits in immeasurable space and also revolving on their
own axes.  And thus the science of  astronomy  is born  even
under the  shame and humiliation of a compulsory recantation.
Again, nature  takes a poor humble student, leads him  along the
old paths of knowledge, through the labyrinthine mysteries and
utter chaos of old  medicine, and then leads him on  into that
clearer light which gives the world a scientific and perfect guide
to the  choice  of drugs  for the cure of disease.  And then she
crowns him Avith leadership  in a  grand reformation of a  great
human cause.
  And thus, through the long reach of ages, one human interest
after another,  one great fact  or truth or principle after another
is developed and established in the  minds and lives of men, of
communities and races.
  But  Nature seems to be never in haste.  It took twenty-two
hundred  years of the sIoav  coaching of old medicine to  develop a
Harvey and establish in the minds  of men the fact of the cir-
culation of blood in the human organism.  And it took almost
two centuries  longer to develop  and  establish nature's law of
drug-action on the human system, and to  give the world the law
of cure.   The  very discovery of that law had to Avait for the dis-
covery and development of inductive philosophy, for only by its
processes could the law of cure be discovered and fully demon-
strated.  But  that  law is now incontestably established on an
absolutely  scientific  basis, and  to-day  it challenges all the sci-
entific  tests known to  men  to disprove  its correctness.   And
Hahnemaun, its real discoverer, and  Hering, its Avise elabora-
tor, can  be and are both called from  labor to rest.   For  years
the profession  has  Avatched Avith eager  eyes the progress of Dr.
Hering's life-work  almost in fear and  trembling,  lest  he should
not live  to complete it.  But  life held on its course, and the
indefatigable Avorker through days and nights and years of in- 
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cessant study  and toil brought the work nearer  and nearer to
completion.  And when  at  last his  work was  done, his manu-
scripts completed and the press began  to  turn out his volumes,
the fiat of "Avell done"  Avas issued  from on high, and he  was
suddenly called aAvay from his proof-sheets to his everlasting rest.
  Others could  read  the proof, and he  was spared that labor.
His workvfSLS done.   But he had lived to Avrite the master medical
work  of the world,  Avhich will  soon  issue from the press, fitly
named " Guiding Symptoms."
  Unlike the "Mystery of Edwin Drood," the hand of its creator
guided the pen to the end of its last chapter, though proof-readers,
pressmen and  binders have their work still to perform.
  Homoeopathy, under the leadership of Hahnemann and Hering,
reinforced by an  already grand army of coadjutors, has wrought
a grand and beneficent  reform in medicine, and conferred ines-
timable blessings on the Avorld.  It no longer needs any champion
defenders.   It is a great and Avell established fact in the world.
It has already become aggressive, has  changed the field of con-
flict  and the  front of battle, has carried the  contest  into the
enemy's country and  put gouty old  medicine on  the defensive,
and  compelled it to adopt so many changes and  improvements
and  to abandon  so many barbarities and cruel and  dangerous
devices  in  its methods,  that could  Galen, Paracelsus, Hippo-
crates, Paris, Cullen  or  Sydenham be  called from their gra\res
to-day, they would have  a thousand-fold more trouble to  recog-
nize  their disciples than did Rip Van Winkle to recognize his
daughter or his dog after his twenty years of sleep.   Hahnemann
and  his  followers have  achieved a deeper and broader  and
sounder knowledge of Materia Medica in the past eighty years
than old physic has done in eighteen  centuries.
  Still the world moves, and even now  the sleepy  disciples of
Galen are  waking up and announcing with a great flourish of
trumpets to the world as new discoveries in medicine, facts which
Hahnemann announced over eighty years ago.
  Fortunately the world is already astir  in all the great  camp- 
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 ing  grounds of philosophy, science, art, theology, law and medi-
 cine; it  is Avaking up the Rip Van Winkles all along the line,
 and demanding of them more intelligent and scientific methods,
 more light  and better results.  And when the masses demand
 better lawyers, better preachers, better doctors and more intelli-
 gent methods,  the demand is sure to be responded to. ■ If the
 people demand better qualities of books, of food, of raiment, of
 merchandise, there will not be long wanting live merchants and
 tradesmen Avho will find or create a Avay to  supply the demand.
   A hundred  years ago there went up from an  already long-
 suffering humanity a cry for release from old medical supersti-
 tions and barbarities, and for the introduction of a more humane
 and  scientific medicine,  one that could give a reason, not only
 for its existence, but its methods, and already the whole medical
 Avorld (the most  superstitious of  all worlds) is revolutionized,
 and  half a million of active brains  and busy  hands  are  toil-
 ing eagerly to fulfil the demand of humanity.   Many of them
 are  among the old sleepers,  and AATe see  almost daily  some of
 them rubbing the scales from their eyes, dropping their shackles
 of prejudice and  coming to the  front and joining  the  ranks of
 Homoeopathy.  Order  is being evolved out of chaos, system out
 of confusion, light out of darkness, and the cry of the world for
 a safe and wise medical system is receiving its ansAver.
  Let the good  work go on, and when a veteran and hero finishes
his Avork and is  given his eternal leave of absence  from our ranks,
there will be a hundred Avilling  hands and heroic hearts to take
up and carry on the great work.   Let us one and all make  and
hold  ourselves  competent and ready to take up and  carry on
successfully  any part of the  great Avork  that circumstances or
Providence may assign to us. 
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     MEETING IN  WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

   A  memorial  meeting in  honor  of the decease of Dr.
Constantine Hering  was held  in the city of Wilmington,
Delaware, on October 10th, 1880, at which Dr. A. Negen-
dank read the folio wing address:

   Gentlemen:—While we are here to-day assembled, represent-
ing the homoeopathic physicians of the State of Delaware, to share
in the general  respect, and to show our high esteem to the de-
parted master spirit of Constantine Hering, in honoring him I
feel  that we are  conferring honor  to ourselves, being followers
of the same principle in medicine—"Similia similibus curantur"
—that our deceased veteran ever defended, and  to the  eluci-
dation of which he devoted a large portion  of a long  life of
eighty years.   Dr. Hering Avas  a  man sui generis, far above the
groveling propensities of ordinary human nature;  he forgot in
his devotion to science, the entity  of worldly existence, for Avhich
so many toil.  Our  profession has ahvays claimed, not for the in-
dividual, but for the body collective, a high  standard of honor
and unselfishness, a  position above those who know less of the
frailties of humanity.  Let every  one judge for himself if he de-
serves such  a claim or not, but I say it Avithout hesitation, our
departed friend deserved that claim, and I believe him to have
been the high priest of his profession.
  There are men who seem to be sent into this world for purposes
and action only.   All their faculties are  bent to toil  and work ;
their spirits and their frames alike teem with energy.   They pause
and slumber like  other men, but  only to recruit from actual fa-
tigue ; they occasionally need quiet, though only as invigoration
for renewed exertion ; they investigate and reflect; their mission,
their  enjoyment, the object and  condition of their existence, is
work; they would not be content to exist here without it, and can-
not conceive another life as desirable without it.  Their vitality is 
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beyond that of ordinary men;  they are never seen idle; in re-
pose they dream of work, and their pleasure is work.
  A few years before  his  death, on a  warm summer  day, hot
enough to  lull the energy of the youngest, Avhile sitting in his
arm-chair smoking a cigar and  sipping his cup of coffee, the ven-
erable old gentleman was overcome by fatigue, and rousing him-
self from slumber exclaimed : " If it was not for the work begun,
and  the completion of which rests upon me, the frail  and weary
body might wish to be at rest."  Such a man was our highly es-
teemed and distinguished Hering.
  I had the privilege to live with the doctor  for several years,
as his assistant, and there is not a day of that time that I cannot
recall  Avith pleasant remembrance; at  his  frugal  table he was
cheerful, conversational and instructive, never dictatorial, always
pleased to receive.  If  it was  upon any subject  with which he
was not as familiar as the  speaker, he would  listen with grave
attention, and a pleasant sparkle of the eye Avould indicate  his
gratification to learn.  Humble  people were cheerfully enter-
tained at his hospitable  table, and the kindest attention and re-
spect were shown them by the doctor, as well as by Mrs. Hering.
If friends happened in  in the evening, before  the doctor retired
to his study, he was always ready for a social  chat, full of good
humor and wit.   A cigar, rye  bread, a piece of SavIss cheese, a
glass of claret, and plenty of time in prospect would furnish ma-
terial for an enjoyable evening.  But if our venerable sage came
home overworked and fatigued, he preferred to be undisturbed,
and  retired to his study where quiet reigned, there to be  in com-
pany with his  books or pen.
  To the young man he was full of encouragement; enthusiastic
in showing him the way that would  be sure to lead him to suc-
cess ; never oppressing him with his store of knowledge or learn-
ing,  but ready to give to the fullest extent, all that he judged his
hearer capable of  receiving.  A faint smile would probably be
all the censure bestowed on a weak effort in literature;  but for
an able antagonist he had voluminous ammunition for battle, in- 
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eluding a fair quantity of grape shot.  A good jest, even if it Avas
at his own  expense, or even against Homoeopathy, he  relished,
but a cold or wilful expression against the sacred  truth of Ther-
apeutics he considered  unpardonable.  After the death of Dr.
Watzke, in  1867, I expressed my regret at losing such an able
colleague from our ranks;  he knit his broAV and  ansAvered:  " I
am not at all sorry ; a man who, after finding the truth, can say
that he is sorry for it, ought to die."
  The patience of Dr. Hering in listening  to the  endless  narra-
tion of a patient afflicted Avith a chronic disorder, was remark-
able, and you might have thought the day of our master had no
end, or that he had only the one patient to attend.  The restless-
ness of all who were waiting for him in the office, did not  in the
least  disturb him; they might wait, or  go home to come back
another time.   He did not believe in hurry, and often said, " No
one is in a hurry but the devil."
  Dr.  Hering was a poAver, but  what Avas that power ?, Was it
his learning ? no doubt it was a  part of it.  Was it his  indus-
try ? no doubt  it was a part of it.  But the great lever  of his
power Avas his character.  He was modest, kind and open-hearted.
Integrity and honor were his beacon-lights; he was a man in whom
there was no guile.   I  may be asked by some of our friends, did
our sage never get out  of humor, or could he not  scold ?  I am
frank to say, that he could get out of humor and scold too.  Tell
him that he promised so and so, and you were sure to put him in
bad humor; it was specially distasteful to his feelings, as a doubt
against his honest character.   " No, sir ;  I never promise,  never,
never;  no one promises but the old Nick, and he never keeps a
promise."  He had his own fashion of scolding, and it was in full
earnest, but never to hurt anyone, as he was always careful not
to let its force descend directly upon the subject Avho had  offended.
  One stormy winter night, the coachman awaited the doctor at
the house of a friend Avhere he Avas calling, and had become  so
interested in conversation that driver, horses, and the storm Avere
alike forgotten.   About ten o'clock, John, not feeling very com- 
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fortable on his box, and perhaps thinking the doctor might have
given him the slip by a side door, drove away to the stable.  The
old gentleman returned shortly after  on foot, naturally out of
humor, and John Avas soon hacked to pieces, hundreds, thousands,
tens of thousands of pieces, roasted, fried and  baked, the pan to
be emptied out of the third story window into the dark, cold night.
All this time John slept soundly in  his warm bed, and never
heard anything of these maledictions.
  Dr. Hering's standing as a scientist,  skilfulness as a physician,
his special  love and labor as  a Therapeutist,  I shall pass by in
silence, knowing  full well  that ample justice will be done him this
day by our fraternity.   Ages  to come  will appreciate his labor,
which was to free medicine and the medical  profession from that
vortex of endless speculation  in Therapeutics Avhich has been a
labyrinth as old as the history of medicine.  The Avork of build-
ing up a true temple of science kept the  tools of our master ma-
son bright.  He was industrious  to the  last breath of his life,
Avhen kind  Nature's signal called  him for retreat.
  In love, to  the memory of the departed, I give these  few out-
lines of his character.
         MEETING  IN  WASHINGTON, D.  C.

  The following preamble and resolutions were adopted
at a meeting of the  Homoeopathic Medical  Society, held
on  October  10th, 1880, in commemoration  of the death
of Constantine Hering, M.D.:

  When a man like Constantine Hering is removed  from this
life, it is fitting that we, his colleagues, should place upon record
our appreciation of his eminent  qualities as a man and physi-
cian ; not that it adds  anything  to the beauty of his memory,
but for ourselves, that Ave may be stimulated  anew to  follow his
example. 
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   Although his imrestigations of Homoeopathy Avere undertaken
for the purpose of destroying the heresy, he accepted fully the
truths which Avere demonstrated by his experiments, though con-
trary to his preconceived ideas.  The truth of the law of similars
once proven to him, in spite of all opposition he  became a pio-
neer in the cause, and suffered privations and persecutions such
as are measured to all avIio dare to think in advance of the time.
His labors  in  the cause Avere unselfish to  the  sacrifice of all
wordly interests, and  unceasing.   He  established the first ho-
moeopathic college;  the first homoeopathic pharmacy Avas opened
through his influence, and to him we owe the first translation of
Homoeopathic  Materia  Medica into  English.    He has  made
Philadelphia a  Mecca  from which his influence has  extended
over the Avhole Avorld.
   While attacking Avith relentless poAver what he believed to be
error, he Avas free from  professional jealousies and ahvays  gave
honor  Avhere honor Avas  due; his was the  fraternal spirit of  a
gentleman, a Christian, and a scientist.   He realized in his devo-
tion to Homoeopathy, that Avith everything to gain in the contest
Avith error, our  cause could not  afford to be Aveakened by con-
troversies on non-essential questions.  He desired, in the presence
of a common enemy, a brotherhood  that would  ensure at last,  a
common victory; to this end he contributed much by his charity,
kindliness and cheerful disposition, which  called out the ven-
eration of young practitioners who were so fortunate as to come
in contact Avith him; his genial spirit gave him a perennial youth
which  made it.impossible that he should die of old age.
   He gave most freely of the results of his labors; his heart was
open to every one  Avho  knocked at its door in  the search for
truth.   FeAV kneAV  of  his labors and  sacrifices  for the cause
We are greatly  indebted for  his numerous provings of remedies
and especially for the introduction and development  of Apium
virus and Laehexi*.  ■
  But brightest  above  all, and including all, is  the example of
his long, noble and active life, devoted to the last moment to the
service of his felloAV men;— 
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  Therefore,  the  members  of the Washington Homoeopathic
Medical Society can but express their sorrow for  their great
loss; and, while bowing to the dispensation of an All-Wise God,
would  consecrate  themselves anew to  greater devotion to the
cause which was  so dear to him,  and to the imitation of his
shining example.
  To his wife and  children we extend our deepest sympathy,
and  the assurance that we mourn with them their  loss of hus-
band, father and friend.
       MEETING IN SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

  At a meeting of physicians and laymen of Schleswig-
Holstein, held October 10th, 1880, at the residence of Herr
Billerbeck in Wilster, the exercises consisted of  the  fol-
lowing :

1. £rauer=98eife t>on !£rauttenfel3.
2. prolog, gefprocfoen von %vl. 23oge.
3. greunbe fchmiicft bee -JUieifterS §aupt, von Dr. 2ftoffa.
4. $rof.  Dr.  @. Bering's  2Btrfen- in  2lmerifa  unb SDeutfdjlanb.
     SSortrag von Dr.  2Berner.
5. @S nrirb bereinft bie S^acferoett Mtittern tc, con 2. $ranfl.
6. 33lau—2Bei£—©olb.  SSortrag.
7. SDer ©d}mergen3fd)ret au§ alien @cfen.   @in 33oIi3lteb mit f)omoo=
     pathiftfjen ^anbjeid^nungen.   3Son ^3rof. Dr.t Bering.   Dr.
     SJBerner.
8. ©c&htfjroort.
           MEETING IN PARIS, FRANCE.

  An account of the proceedings of the memorial meeting
held  in Paris,  France,  is  copied  from  the Bibliotheque
Homceopathique: 
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  La fatale nouvelle venait a peine de se repandre dans Phila-
delphia que le fils de notre confrere, M. Heermann, en informait
son pere par le telegraphe.   Le secretaire-general de la Societe
hahnemanienne federative comprit aussitot  que les homoeopathes
francais  devaient  rendre  un hommage public et  collectif a, ce
veteran de l'homceopathie, a celui qui, depuis Hahnemann, avait
le plus enrichi la Matiere medicale.  Aussi il invita sans plus
tarder tous  nos confreres presents a Paris a se reunir  chez lui le
31 juillet  1880, pour aviser au meilleur  moyen d'honorer la
memoire de ce grand bienfaiteur de l'humanite.  La plupart des
membres de la Society hahnemanienne federative furent exacts
au rendez-vous et la seance fut ouverte a 9 heures du soir, sous la
presidence  de M. Leboucher.  M. Love, vice-president de la So-
ciete  homceopathique  de  France,  et M. Cramoisy,  6taient au
nombre des assistants.
  M. Heermann, apres un court eloge d'Heriug, expose l'objet de
la reunion.  Ensuite chacun emet son avis et Ton adopte a, l'un-
animite les deux resolutions suivantes:
  1. Une lettre de  condoleance sera  adress£e a Mme. veuve
Hering et  signed  non-seulement par tous les membres presents,
mais aussi par le plus grand nombre possible de medecins homoe-
opathes actuellement a, Paris.
  2. M. Heermann, en quality d'ami d'Hering, est charge d'ecrire
son eloge avec tous les developpements que comporte l'importance
de ses travaux.
  Voici le texte de la lettre qui  a ete redigee et signee sur-le-
champ:

         Madame:—
  Les medecins homoeopathes francais soussignes viennent vous
dire toute la part qu'ils prennent a votre juste douleur. La mort
du Dr. Hering est  la plus grande epreuve que l'homoeopathie ait
eprouv^e depuis longues  annees.   Aucun  de nous n'oublie les
services rendus a  notre ecole par celui que vous  pleurez, et qui
laisse un si grand vide parmi nous;  aucun  de nous n'oublie que 
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c'est a, lui surtout  que nous devons le  deVeloppement  pris en
Am6rique par les disciples de Hahnemann.
  Le Dr. Hering a  donne un exemple que chacun tiendra a hon-
neur d'imiter dans la mesure de ses forces.  Le plus grand hom-
mage que nous  puissions rendre a sa memoire sera de suivre la
tradition de devouement a  la verite  et d'infatigable travail qu'il
nous a laissee.
  Veuillez agreer,  madame, l'assurance de  notre  tr&s  humble
respect.
  Ont signe: MM. Boyer, Chancerel pere, Victor Chancer el, vice-
president de la Societe hahnemanienne federative, Claude, secre-
taire ^general de la Societe homoeopatique de France;  Compagnon,
secretaire adjoint de la Societe hahnemanienne; Cramoisy, Cretin,
Dacher, Dezermeaux, Fournier, Guerin-Meneville, president de la
Societe homceopathique de France; Heermann, secretaire-general
de la Societe hahnemanienne; Jjebouclier, president  de la Societe
hahnemanienne;  Fred. Love, James Ijove,  Monnier,. Partenay,
vice-president de la Societe homceopathique  de France; Leon
Simon  pere, Vincent-Leon Simon, secretaire-adjoint de la Societe
hahnemanienne;  Tessier.
  MM. Plaeido Diaz, de Puebla (Mexique), et Antonio de Mello
de Porto (Portugal), qui assistaient  a  la derniere seance de la
Societe hahnemanienne, ont eu la gracieusete  d'ajouter leurs  sig-
natures a celles de leurs confreres de Paris.

  The following  eulogy* was read by Dr. C. Heermann:

  On the  23d of July, at  half-past  10 o'clock  in  the  evening,
Dr. Hering departed this life, having passed his 80th year.
  He had for some  time before  his death suffered from  asthma,
without, however, ceasing to attend  to his daily duties.  He re-
tired to  his  study, on  the  evening  of the 23d, a  little  after 8
o'clock.  About  10 o'clock he  called his Avife, who  found him
* Translated from the French by Mrs. M. F. Green and Miss Emily Jones. 
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suffering from much difficulty in breathing, but in full possession
of his faculties.   Drs. Raue  and Koch were summoned at once,
but before they came his soul had passed aAvay.
  To one of  those  around  him he  said, " Noav, I  am  dying."
Upon other occasions, Avhen  he had  been very ill and given up
by his  friends, he had ahvays refused to believe that  he Avas
dying, feeling sure that his hour had not yet come.
  Dr.  Constantine  Hering  Avas  born  at  Oschatz (Saxony),
Germany, January 1st, 1800.  From his earliest childhood he
eArinced  a great  desire for knoAvledge, and finished with honor
the studies preparatory to entering the college at Zittau, Avhere
he de\Toted himself to classical learning from 1811 to 1817.   He
excelled in  everything, esjiecially in mathematics,  and in all
branches he went far beyond  the  average of his  time.   He had
a decided taste for the study  of medicine, which he followed first
at the Surgical Academy  at Dresden, then at the University of
Leipzig, AA'here he Avas a pupil of the  celebrated surgeon Robbi.
His  preceptor having been  at  that time  requested to  write
an article against  Homoeopathy, entrusted  his  pupil Avith  it.
The latter threAV himself into it with ardor,  studied the writ-
ings which  he Avas to attack, and there  found this  expression,
" Represent me,  but represent me correctly."   (MacKs nach, aber
mach's recht nach.)   He decided to make a personal investigation
of the matter  in order to insure a more complete victory.
  Having, Avith this end in view, applied to a druggist in Leipzig
for  the  bark  of "Cinchona," the  druggist, Avho was a friend of
his, said to him,  after having heard his purpose, "Let that alone,
dear Hering, you are treading on dangerous ground," but Hering
replied that he did not fear the truth.
  The pamphlet against Homoeopathy was not written.
  About this  time a  dissecting  wound produced on him such
serious effects, that not  only  did amputation seem  necessary, but
grave fears for his life were felt.  One of his friends at this time
persuaded him to try against this malady, the power of homoe-
opathic  drugs.  An entire cure was the result.  His conversion 
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to Homoeopathy Avas  from that time  complete, and his thesis
written to obtain his degree contained a masterly defence of the
homoeopathic law.
  After he obtained his degree, March 23d, 1826, at the Univer-
sity of Wurzburg, he  Avas appointed by the King of Saxony to
go to Guiana, for the  purpose of scientific research, and to make
a zoological collection.  There he pursued the study and practice
of the new doctrine, and cured the daughter of the  governor of
the province of a disease Avhich had been  pronounced  incurable
by the  resident physicians.   Having besides, during his stay
in South  America, contributed to the Homoeopathic Archives,
thanks to  the influence of the court physician, he received "royal
notice" to quit the study of medicine and attend  only  to the
duties of his position.
  His independent nature rebelled against so  much intolerance,
and he immediately sent in his resignation, and continued the prac-
tice of medicine at Paramaribo.  One  of his friends and students,
Dr. Bute,  Avho  had formerly been a  missionary there, and Avho
had since  then  established himself at  Philadelphia, represented
this city to him as a useful field for his labors.   Hering  arrived
there in January, 1833, but only remained a  short time, having
been asked by Dr. Wesselhceft, of Allentown, Pa., to assist him
in founding there a  homoeopathic school  of medicine, the first
which  had ever  existed.  The  government  of  Pennsylvania
accorded to the faculty the right  to confer the degree of doctor
of medicine.
  We next find Dr. Hering established in Philadelphia, Avith a
large practice.
  So great Avas the variety of the  Doctor's  acquaintances, and
the charm of intercourse Avith him, that his  society was sought
eagerly by statesmen,  and the most illustrious representatives of
political economy, science and the fine arts.
  But the Doctor reserved for the students and younger practi-
tioners his  Saturday  evenings, during which  he taught them
from his  own  experience, and shared with them the boundless 
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 treasures of  his knowledge.  This kind  custom  Avas kept  up
 during his entire life, and even the most  clever considered it a
 great honor to be admitted to these intellectual feasts.
   What witty nights, where science and manly enjoyment were
 united  to a hearty simplicity and  native  freshness!   What  de-
 licious love feasts under his truly hospitable roof!
   As to his works, let us at least  give a list of them which will
 serve to show the boundless activity of this fertile brain.  Before
 leaving the Saxony legation he had proven, Mezereum, Sabadilla,
 Sabina,  Colchicum, Plumb, etc., Paris quadr., Cantharis,  Sodium,
 and partly, Anlim. tart., Arg.  met, Aristol., Clematis er., Bellad.,
 Caltha palustris,  Opium,  Ruta, Tanacet., Viola tricolor, etc.
   During his stay in South America his provings extended to
 Lachesis, Theridion  curass., Askalabotes,   Calad.  seg.,  Jambos,
 Jatropha, Solanum, Spigelia, Vanilla, Alumina, Acid phosph. and
 Psorinum.
   After his arrival in Philadelphia he  either  proved himself or
 superintended the experiments and editing of the provings of the
 folloAving medicines :  Mephitis,  Modes fcetidus,  Crotal., Hydro-
phobinum,  Brucea, Calc.  phosph  (acid and basic), Hippomanes,
 Castor  equorum,  Kalmia,   Viburnum,  Phytolacca,  Gelsemium,
 Gymnocladus,  Chlor.,  Brom.,  Ac.  fluor,  Ac.  oxal,  Ferr.  met,
 Cobalt, Niccol., Oxigen, Ozone, Thallium, Tellurium, Palladium,
 Platinum, Osmium, Lithium, Glonoine, Apis, Cepa, Aloes, Mille-
fol., Baryta carb., Nux mos. and Formica.
   Besides his contributions to the Homeopathic News, 1854, and
 to the American Journal of Materia  Medica,  1867-71, and the
 help which he gave to the translation of Jahr's Manual, we have
 many of his writings, both large and small:
   Rise and Progress of Homoeopathy, pamphlet, translated into
 Dutch and Swedish, 1834.
   Necessity and Advantages of Homoeopathy,  1835, pamphlet.
   Proposition to Suppress  Homoeopathy,  1846, satire.
   Logic of Homoeopathy, 1860, pamphlet.
   Effects from the Poison of Serpents, 1837. 
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  Suggestions for making Medical Provings.
  Domestic Physician, 1835, of which  there have been issued
seven editions in America, two in England, and fourteen in Ger-
many ;  it has  been translated into French,  Spanish,  Italian,
Danish, Hungarian, Russian and Swedish.
  American Drug Provings, 1853-57.
  Translation of Gross' Comparative Materia Medica, 1866.
  Condensed Materia Medica, tAvo editions, 1877-79.
  Analytical Therapeutics, 1875.
  Guiding Symptoms, of which the third volume Avas in  press at
the time of his death.
  The quantity of material gathered together  by Dr.  Hering,
from which are draAvn his Analytical Therapeutics  and Guiding
Symptoms, is a marvel of activity,  and the most careful and
complete collection Avhich exists upon Materia Medica.
  Dr. Hering was an active member  of the Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, to Avhich he gave his  large zoological
collection.
  He was one of the founders of the  American  Institute  of
Homoeopathy, to which he lent his cooperation during his entire
life.
  He founded the American Homoeopathic Publishing Society,
whose shareholders obtain his medical works and other publica-
tions at greatly reduced rates.
  He was a co-founder  of the American Provers'  Union, co-
founder of the Medical  Academy at Allentown, co-founder  of
the Hahnemann College of Philadelphia, where he taught for a
long time  the doctrine of Homoeopathy  according  to the Orga-
non, Avhich, as a true disciple, he himself  honored in interpreting.
  The Hahnemann  College  of  Philadelphia  was, Avhen  in
danger  of closing, saved and  reorganized  by Dr. Hering.  It
numbers ten professors, seven lecturers and demonstrators;  con-
tains  a  large library,  a  collection of models and pathological
specimens, a complete  chemical laboratory and rooms  for the
study of anatomy and practical surgery.  Medicine is taught 
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here in all  its branches, including toxicology, materia medica,
general and special therapeutics, etc.  An excellent  chance for
the allopath Avho wishes to learn!
  At his death Dr. Hering was Emeritus Professor  of Insti-
tutes and Materia Medica in this institution.
  Of medium  height and athletic build, nature  had fashioned
Dr. Hering physically as a wrestler in a struggle, which he sus-
tained during his  entire life Avith ardor and  dignity.   Upon his
broad shoulders Avas carried a grand head Avith the resolute look
of one Avho, without any pride, knoAvs how to appreciate his own
value, and  Avithout affectation, unless one might call such his
beautiful hair, which he ahvays Avore long,  like the Germans of
the olden time.   He had the Avell-developed forehead of an ob-
server, heavy eyebroAvs, shading the black  eye of his  race, and
an expression in Avhich  played the anxiety of unwearied thought
joined to a boundless kindness of heart.   His step, noiseless and
elastic in spite of  his great Aveight, prepossessed all in his favor;
his presence shed abroad an atmosphere of benevolence, and in-
spired^the young with  confidence in a superiority which  might
have crushed them, the sick Avith courage and all with sympathy,
Avhile to those Avho were fortunate enough to be able to approach
sufficiently  near to appreciate him, his  presence served  to fill
them with  an admiration of the tenderest nature.
   Of a happily tenacious memory, he Avas at home on all subjects,
listening Avith attention to the young Avhom  he was teaching, and
of such  affability, that giving, he seemed to receive and learn
from them.
   His faculties of a superior order, formed upon musical harmo-
nies from his birth, (his father was an organist,) and coordinated
by the study of  mathematics to  a form of reasoning, and by
classical learning  to the very depths of philosophy, had been en-
riched by the  study of natural science, of  which he was a per-
fect master.  His clear, precise enunciation; his sweet voice; his
just, candid appreciation,  Avhere  the severe  logic of science was
mingled with great goodness  of heart, all  united in showing  a
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feeling of honest and irresistible conviction at the centre of which
resounded  like an  ever-vibrating echo, these words:  Follow me
correctly.
  Scientifically speaking, his well-moulded hand showed a depth
of receptive sensibility capable of analysis, and, by  its eastern
form, the synthetic power well characterized.  Humanly speak-
ing,  it was like his heart, which,  deeply affected, sympathized
with all in the arduous contest of life, giving both of his support
and his charity.  For  it must be said that, slightly negligent of
external forms, he seemed to  be only the guardian of  benefits re-
ceived, which he scattered round him without  any regard for his
own interests.  He cared nothing for riches ; so to him was given
the loving  title of Father Hering.
  To understand him thoroughly one must remember  that he
was  brought  up at a time of great  effervescence, which accounts
for  his communicative  enthusiasm.  Perfectly  balanced,  his
judgment did  not allow his  imagination to expend itself in any
direction, save in the ardor which he lavished  upon his studies;
and his moral sense or feeling of duty sustained him in his great
work, in which he never failed, in spite of the  many meannesses
of those who were jealous of the great  stranger in a  country
which Avas  not his by an  accident of birth, but by adoption, and
in spite of  the bitterness Avith which those Avho, not being able to
reach the man, tried to disparage him and the truths to Avhich he
had  consecrated  his life.  To these truths  he  was faithful  to a
degree which never lessened,  neither when pursued by vexations,
nor Avhen struggling against the restraints of the age, for, a few
days before his death, he returned thanks for all the good that he
had  received from Homoeopathy.  He planned even at that time
a new Materia Medica, in which the theory and practice should
explain each other, to  the great joy of the disciples of the school.
  The results of his  unheard-of work, and of his perseverance,
are not only spread through the writings of many periodicals,
but  are  recorded in  volumes  of extraordinary  merit.   One  is
astonished in becoming acquainted with this study, made so deep 
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by comparisons, by parallel quotations, by circumstances of time,
of position, of direction, and of sides.   And the  question arises,
Avhy so much care, which no one before him had thought of any
use, unless the compilation of Boenninghausen should be  con-
sidered  as something more  than patient statistics.  Dr. Hering
brought to  this  work  not  only the  minute exactitude  of the
naturalist, and the faithfulness of the homoeopathic believer, but
the ardent perseverance of  one Avho studies the laAvs  of a living
pathology.  He thought that there  should  be a reason for the
preference of certain remedies for this or that part of the body.
Is it the result of medical affinities, of idiosyncracies, or the re-
sult  of medical action and physical reaction?  What law does the
circulation of  the  nervous fluid folloAv?   What  reason, what
course must be assigned  for the vital wave?  Through the sta-
tistic method  to which he Avas devoted there came to him the
suspicion of a law to be discovered.   And do not let us criticize
too severely this ambition.  The measure of intuition and appre-
ciation, Avhich a mind thus exercised  makes  use of, is  not ours.
The law of doses, and the law for which  Hering sought,  will
both one day  be added, like great luminaries, to the discoveries
made for the good of mankind.  Hering, himself, knew that the
hour of this revelation, a  kind  of promised land, had not yet
come, and he contented himself with  erecting a monument of
facts and works, so  that others might make  use of it  later on.
Then seeing that the Materia Medica,  Avorked in this way, wo'dd
be almost too colossal a Avork, he began another, as fine, but much
shorter,  Avhich the student might, if he Avished it, re-work.   It is,
in fact, more Avithin our reach.  Then, to define still more clearly
the lines to be followed, in the practical way, he makes a resume"
of the whole,  and under the name of Analytical Therapeutics
gave the result of long years of observation, either by himself or
others.   A work still incompTete, but, such as it is, of  inestimable
value.
   At the time when  Dr. Hering appeared upon the scene, our
school  but just started, Avas like a fragile shell upon the waters, 
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ready to be  engulfed at the  least movement of the  Avaves.
Hering came, incomparably  eminent, fortified with  vast  knowl-
edge, an unceasing activity, a boundless kindness,  a  feeling of
duty to be done, equal to  every  struggle.  He started every
movement for the good of our school, never allowed himself to
be discouraged, was present everywhere upon the scene of action,
encouraged  and directed the students, stimulated the people to
work, adding to his daily practice the work of a large correspond-
ence, of medical provings and of a college professorship.  To
accomplish this he Avas  often on  duty tAventy-one hours out of
the tAventy-four.
  Our school has gained in size, in strength, in consideration; it
is no longer a shell, a  plaything at the mercy of the Avaves, but
a majestic ship, Avith its flag floating proudly on all shores, the
joy of every land.  And if we, the contemporaries of Hering,
have seen him and known his worth, posterity, on account of the
imperishable monument which  he has left us as the fruit of his
labors, will place him, a worthy competitor, by the side of the
Master himself, and bestow upon him the title of " great," which
he has so richly deserved.
  When Hahnemann attacked the  old school  at its foundations,
by the denial, both of  its fundamental  principle and the efficacy
of its therapeutic power, he did not content himself with a sim-
ple denial. For the denial, which may become the starting-point
of an argument or a  system, is not one in itself.  Alone, and
without reconstruction, if something has not been rebuilt upon
the ruins of  that which has been demolished, it is either the re-
turn  to an unwholesome  barbarism foreign to  our  day, or  the
paltry confession  of weakness  of mind.   Hahnemann,  while
making clean work of the old school, determined the rules which
should govern the choice of a  medicine in a case  of sickness,
reunited by his system the disavowed ties1 which exist between the
  1 Physiological maxim. The parts of a whole are in the same conditions
as the whole, the whole in the same  conditions as the parts.  All local
treatment rests upon a disavowal of this maxim. 
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maxims of physiology  and therapeutics; for the  untenable law
of opposites2 substituted the indisputable law3 of similars, and, by
means of provings on the healthy man, initiated us into the com-
plicated study of the psychical4 and physical man, a close bond,
by which in every disease these double beings are  united.
   Strong in obedience to the law and this science,  Ave entered the
arena, physicians of the body, physicians  of  the soul, apostles of
the right, true benefactors, and regenerators  of the  human race.
It was  from  henceforth  a  question if the science of medicine
should be material or spiritual.  By its very  constitution Homoe-
opathy is the realization in science of that which the Christian
idea has already attained in art and literature, a  vital influence
which preserves from death.
   To deny Homoeopathy Ave must either return to the singularly
changeable—some say useless—medicine  of the academy, medi-
cine of experiment,  of  quackery, and which, by the uncertainty
of its course, tends to destroy all faith, or else we  must invent
new principles,  the formula of which Ave  do  not suspect to-day.
And  it must be  said, during the length  of  time  that Ave  have
existed, nearly a  century, in spite of the almost  febrile mental
activity  of  the  times,  no one  has found  this  new way.  After
Hahnemann no denial is possible.  In  his system  the connection
  2 Examples of the application of the law of similars.  A frozen limb is
cured by the application of snow, or the air of a cold room.  Inflammation
is reduced by the application of warm water.  Purgatives are employed in
cases of diarrhoea and dysentery.   Vomiting is stopped by drinking warm
water or by an emetic of mustard, and lastly vaccine, which is  not in any
respect the  opposite, but in every respect like small-pox, is used, indeed
legally enforced, by the old school.
  3 This law is deduced from the observation of facts; it is a general one,
in so far as no cure is effected without its application.
  4 The study of all our pathogeneses begins by that of the mental, moral,
or psychical state in certain  physical  conditions.  One of these conditions
being given, the other-is necessarily deduced from it.  This study, applied
to infancy, gives us the means of modifying its psychical tendencies, or of
improving the race. 
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of the different parts is so close and binding that it is not to be
wondered at that  a mind which  sincerely tries to become ac-
quainted Avith it should be seriously  impressed.   Hering, the
medical student, his knife in his hand, Avished lightly to make this
acquaintance; but he soon discovered that it was instead a study
which  one must follow carefully.   At a single glance he  was
struck with the importance of this event in the medical world.
He saw not only what we  have said, but many other things be-
sides, all the advantages of the position,  a victory already ac-
quired, Avhich it Avas only necessary  to organize.  This life-work
was spread out before him from that  very hour.
  Armed Avith the motto, " I can  do nothing unless God helps
me," he risked his career, and before  the  faculty which Avas to
decide his fate he dared to throw doAvn the gauntlet in the name
of the medicine of the future.  This  faith never contradicted
itself;  it inspired him.  After a few preliminaries in the way of
observations  and  controversy, he makes  his  first appearance
through the study  of Lachesis, a production sufficient in itself to
insure him the reputation of a master.
  For many years he made personal confirmations of the provings
made by Hahnemann, verifying them  and adding to them new
symptoms.   His part in the great struggle was determined by the
certainty  Avhich he  thus  obtained for the superiority of our
Materia Medica, and of the great benefit which our school derives
from it.  He gave his life to add to the precious discoveries which
are comprised in our Materia Medica.  If a cure or new symp-
tom was reported to him he made careful note of it, but subjected
it to severe examination.   When  verified, it became new mate-
rial.  He adopted nothing which  had not been  subjected to
positive proof.   His horizon, always  enlarging, widened by sure
degrees.   But so great success never caused a single fibre of his
heart to contract.  Whoe\rer knocked  at his door was welcomed
kindly upon the threshold, for Dr. Hering joyfully opened to all
the doors of the sanctuary of  science.   And everyone, receiving
more than he had  hoped to  find, went away with  his Avishes 
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gratified and his heart ennobled by his great example.  It is not
because the American people were credulous, or lacked a practical
spirit, but rather because they Avere so eminently practical that
they listened Avillingly to this man, Avho Avas born a physician of
full groAvth, and that  he accomplished under this influence the
results which Ave know.  Either as adviser, or associated invisibly
Avith all our struggles, which are crowned  with success, Hering,
in his turn, did full justice to his numerous fellow-workers, attri-
buting to himself but a small part of the results. And the names
of Dunham, GoseAvich,  Gray,  Guernsey, Haynel, Hull,  Jeanes,
Kitchen, Lippe,  Neidhard, Pulte, Raue, Wells, Wesselhceft,
Williamson and  many  others were always  mentioned by him
Avith respect and enthusiasm.
  Dr. Hering's conversation, accustomed as he was to write with
precision and brevity,  was not constrained in private life.  It was
enlivened by piquant  and witty remarks, and  he sometimes em-
ployed sarcasm, although  he rarely made use of this  Aveapon.
He enjoyed a joke, and his easy and natural  narration of differ-
ent events, joined to a slightly bantering air, lent a great charm
to a SAveet and sonorous voice.
  Thus, for a  half century, Dr. Hering worked, gathering to-
gether treasures of science, which he has bequeathed to us, as if
the duty of doing good was the only thing which kept  him on
this earth.  A man of a profound and  sincere religious faith, as
a Homoeopath, having faith in the cause, and feeling himself en-
dowed with a special mission, he has fulfilled his task, worthily,
nobly, grandly, for the good of man and to the glory of God, in
whose peace he is still living.
    MEETING  OF CANADIAN  HOMCEOPATHIC
                       INSTITUTE.
  At a meeting of the Canadian Homoeopathic  Institute,
held  at St. Thomas, on  Wednesday, October 27th, 1.880, 
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the President, Dr. John Hall, proposed that the sad sub-
ject of the  demise of Dr. Constantine Hering be consid-
ered, and as  an introductory  read a  most pleasing  and
touching memorial written by Dr.  Edward  Bayard, of
New  York, after which  he offered the following  resolu-
tions which were unanimously carried:

  Whereas, It has pleased the Almighty Disposer of all events
to remove from his post of long  and  self-sacrificing labors our
late venerable friend and  colleague,  Dr.  Constantine Hering;
and,
  Whereas, He  has been greatly endeared to  us by his many
qualities  of mind  and heart;  by his  eminent abilities and pa-
tient toil  in searching after truth;  by his keen faculty of observa-
tion and apprehension in its acquisition; by the tenacity, courage
and ability Avith which he held and defended what he esteemed
the truth; by his large accumulation of knowledge and extensive
experience; by his noble simplicity of character and the unsAAerv-
ing devotion of his great talents  and  influence through a long
life to the advocacy and extension of Homoeopathy, agreeably to
the principles and rules given us by  the illustrious founder of
our art in his Organon;  wherefore be it                   »
  Resolved, That we and the homoeopathic profession throughout
the Avorld have suffered by his death an incalculable loss; and,
  Resolved, That at this first meeting of the Canadian Institute of
Homoeopathy since the decease of our departed friend, we tender
our cordial expression of sorrow  and  sincere sympathy in  this
bereavement  to the family and friends of the deceased.
           MARYLAND  STATE SOCIETY.
  At the annual meeting of the Maryland State Homoeo-
pathic Medical Society, held in Baltimore, November 10th, 
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1880, Dr. F. R. McManus, of Baltimore, offered a motion
that a committee of one be appointed by the president of
the Society to prepare a proper notice and resolutions in
regard to the loss the profession and humanity had sus-
tained  in the  death  of  Dr. Constantine Hering.   The
motion was carried, and the president appointed Dr. F. R.
McManus for that duty.
   At the next meeting, November 11th, Dr. McManus said:

Mr. President and Gentlemen:—
   Forty-three years ago, this very month of November, I  had
the pleasure  to make the acquaintance of Constantine Hering,
M.D., by calling upon him.   I was then visiting Philadelphia
preliminary to my investigation of Homoeopathy.   I explained
to him the object of my visit, and was listened to with kind pa-
tience and advantage to myself; and I availed of and profited by
the instructions  I received from him.  My visit having occurred
during his office consultation hour, I noticed that he frequently
made reference to his books for aid in the selection of his reme-
dies.  I mentioned  this to him, and he replied, " You will find
out that no man can carry Homoeopathy in his head, every case
being different and a subject for study."  I oftentimes aftenvards
derived aid from his suggestions and advice when consulting him
about serious  and obstinate cases.
  By the splendor of his mind, and his indefatigable labors in
the cause of medical science, he has created his OAvn monument,
to perpetuate  his fame  and his worth to future ages, and a stimu-
lus to ambition  in  all who are engaged in his high, honorable,
and responsible calling.
  It has often been remarked—in religion, in medicine, in law,
in politics, in the arts and sciences—of some distinguished indi-
vidual, that " his place can  never be filled as he filled it."   If
ever such a remark proved to be true, it may be proclaimed in 
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regard to our  late  distinguished  colleague,  Dr. Constantine
Hering.
  I beg to offer, in the name and behalf of this Society, the fol-
lowing resolutions:
  Resolved, By the Maryland State  Homoeopathic Medical So-
ciety, that, in common Avith  our  medical colleagues of Philadel-
phia, and of the Avorld, Ave have heard of the demise of our late
colleague in the practice of medicine, the venerable Constantine
Hering, M.D., who could justly be called "the Father of Homoe-
opathy in America," who left us, filled Avith profound knoAvledge,
and a master in  his profession;  and that we regard his loss not
only as one to  an especial locality, but  to  the  whole medical
world and to all suffering humanity.
  Resolved, That our heartfelt sympathies be tendered to his be-
reaved surviving wife and relatives, and to his surviving medical
colleagues of Philadelphia.
  The resolutions were unanimously adopted.
       WEST  JERSEY SOCIETY MEETING.
  At a meeting of the West Jersey Homoeopathic Medical
Society, held February 16th, 1881, the following preamble
and resolutions were adopted as offered by a committee
consisting of Drs. S. H. Quint, E. M. Howard,  and M. F.
Middleton:
  Whereas, It has pleased an All-Wise Providence to remove by
death, in  the fulness  of his years, our distinguished colleague,
Dr. Constantine Hering,
  Resolved, That the  West Jersey Homoeopathic Medical So-
ciety, in  honor  of his memory, place upon  record  our sincere
appreciation of the very eminent services he  has rendered to the
cause of Homoeopathy, and our deep sorrow that  the medical
profession has lost the counsels of so great and good  a man. 
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  Resolved, That we recognize in his life  an example worthy of
emulation in its devotion to the cause of  science and Homoe-
opathy, and in his death that of one who has filled the full period
of man's life, with a noble life's work, which seems to have left
nothing  undone.
   AMERICAN INSTITUTE MEMORIAL SERVICE.

   At the thirty-fourth session of the American Institute
 of Homoeopathy, held at Brighton Beach, N. Y., a special
 hour was set apart on the fourth day of the session, June
 17th, 1881, for a memorial service  in  honor of Dr. Con-
 stantine Hering.
   The necrologist, Dr. Henry D. Paine, of New York, had
 presented the following memoir :

           Constantine Hering, M.D., of Philadelphia.

   No memorial that can be embraced in the circumscribed limits
 of these brief chronicles of our departed  colleagues, can ade-
 quately set forth the character and services of this eminent and
 venerable apostle of Homoeopathy, whose  death, since the last
 annual session of the Institute, has affected  our whole fraternity
 with  a  profound emotion.   Wherever  Homoeopathy has any
 standing in the  community, the name of Dr. Hering has- been
 knoAvn, for a generation  at least, as that of one of its most dis-
 tinguished  expositors and propagandists, while thousands  who
 have shared the privilege of his personal  acquaintance, or having
 received  instruction from his  lips, not only venerate him  as a
 master, but loved him as a friend and father.
   To give a full account of his  honorable career, or even a sum-
mary  of his great services to the cause to Avhich the  greater part
of his long life was devoted, would far exceed the object and the 
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limits allowed to these reports, as well as the time and ability of
the Avriter.  An extended eulogium in this relation  is unneces-
sary, in view of the  memorial service Avhich is to be held in his
honor before the close of this meeting. All that will be attempted
in these remarks is a brief sketch of the  principal circumstances
of the life of Dr. Hering, every turn of  which must henceforth
be of interest to every member of the Institute, with  whose foun-
dation and  early history he Avas so closely identified.  It was
expected that, in the preparation of this narrative, the compiler
Avould have  had the assistance  of some one whose knowledge of
these  events, derived from  a  long and  intimate familiarity  of
them, would have more thoroughly secured its accurate perform-
ance.   Although disappointed in this expectation, it is hoped that
the following  compendium, though imperfect,  is substantially
correct.
  Constantine Hering Avas a native of Saxony, and first saAV the
light in the town of Oschatz, on  NeAV Year's day,  1800.   His
father was a man of liberal  views on education, and an advocate
of the system  of instruction that has since become a charac-
teristic  of German  educational  policy.  As may be supposed,
young Constantine was given  every advantage, and  he Avorked
his Avay through the successive grades of schools in a manner cal-
culated to gain the highest praise of his preceptors.  His inclina-
tion for the  study of natural history was manifested  at an early
age.   He even delighted in  collecting, analyzing, and arranging
specimens and  examples from the different kingdoms of nature,
some of which were thought Avorthy of acceptance by the public
museums.
  In due time he entered the University of Leipzig, intending  to
study especially with the view of becoming a physician.  Having
so strong  a  passion for the  natural sciences, he soon became a
favorite Avith  some  of the  professors,  who gave  him  every
encouragement.
  It Avas while resident at this seat of learning that his attention
was first directed to  the subject of Homoeopathy, by a request 
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from a large publishing  house to write  a refutation of the doc-
trines  of Hahnemann, which Avere already stirring up no little
commotion among the medical profession.  Under the belief that
this would be an easy task, and encouraged by the assurances of
his teachers, he set about  the work with  ready confidence.  The
better  to qualify himself for his undertaking, he wisely began by
an examination of the tenets and methods that he was expected
to demolish, as promulgated in Hahnemann's own writings. The
result of this preliminary investigation was such as to cause his
abandonment of the engagement,  after  a  struggle  of several
months, greatly to the chagrin  of his family and the  disgust of
his former medical friends.  Further examination satisfied him
of the truth of the new ideas and completed his conversion.
   These proceedings sadly darkened  his  prospects  at Leipzig, as
they lost him the patronage he had  enjoyed by the favor of his
preceptors, and he became seriously embarrassed in the  prosecu-
tion of his studies.  Having, however, received from  one of his
family the means  for the purpose,  he removed  to Wurzburg,
where, on the 22d  of March, 1826, he succeeded in obtaining his
degree, notwithstanding  that  in  his  inaugural  thesis,  "De
Medicina  Futura," he  unhesitatingly  espoused  the cause  of
Homoeopathy.
   For some time after  graduation he was occupied in teaching;
but after some months he was offered an  appointment as a mem-
ber of a scientific  expedition to  South America,  of  which  the
King was patron.   His love for natural  history induced him to
accept the position.  While absent upon this expedition he ful-
filled his scientific  duties with entire satisfaction to the promoters
of the  scheme.   At the  same time, however, he did not neglect
his study of Homoeopathy—practicing his  art  as opportunity
offered—but especially in making and conducting original prov-
ings of new drugs, in which  work he had already done valuable
service before leaving home.  The accounts of his provings, etc.,
were sent to and published in the  Homeopathic Archives.  When
this became knoAvn to the  government an official intimation was 
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dispatched that he should, in future, devote himself exclusively
to the objects of the expedition.  On receipt  of this order he
speedily resolved to sever  his connection Avith the enterprise and
devote himself to the practice and  cultivation of Homoeopathy.
He remained six years in South America, during which time he
diligently prosecuted the work he had taken in hand.  Especially
in the number  and  thoroughness of the provings that he then
conducted, his characteristic industry and  perseverance were re-
markable.  His reports of Lachesis, Theridion, Caladium, Spi-
gelia, etc., are among the classics of our Materia Medica.
   While practicing  in Paramaribo he had for a patient a Mo-
ravian missionary, Dr. Bute, Avho had been sent to Surinam.  He
Avas dangerously ill with spotted fever—exceedingly dangerous in
that climate—but recovered under Dr. Hering's treatment.  He
Avas so amazed  at his  own  unexpected cure, and  so grateful
withal, that he began to crave a knowledge of the wonderful
medical system, and  from  being a patient he became a student of
his preserver.  After his return to this country, in 1831, Dr. Bute
practiced in  Nazareth, Pa.   On the outbreak  of the cholera in
Philadelphia in the  following year,  he went to that city to  assist
in the care of the sick.
   Finding the demand for his services so great, he  wrote to Dr.
Hering, urging him to come and  join him.   The  appeal was
effectual, but Dr. Hering  did not arrive till the spring of  1833.
He associated himself with Dr. Bute in Vine street, Philadelphia,
an arrangement Avhich continued Avith  mutual satisfaction  until,
from enfeebled health, Dr. Bute Avas obliged to retire, some years
later.  Dr. Hering did not introduce Homoeopathy into Pennsyl-
vania.  This had  already been  done before  his arrival by Dr.
Detwiller, Dr. Ihm,  Dr. Bute, Dr. Freytag, and others, and he
found himself surrounded by a small but intelligent and earnest
band of adherents of the  system.  His reputation  had  preceded
his advent, and he was Avelcomed with great cordiality and en-
thusiasm.  In December of the same year he joined Avith a num-
ber of others in  organizing  the first  school  of instruction in 
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homoeopathic therapeutics in the Avorld, under the  name  of the
"North American Academy of the Homoeopathic Healing Art,"
to be located at Allentown.  Dr. Hering Avas to be president and
principal professor.  A charter Avas obtained, funds were  raised,
buildings erected, a faculty appointed, students taught and grad-
uated,  and  a  vast deal of other Avork  in behalf of the great
medical reform, Avhich cannot even be alluded to here.   In all
this, the leading  spirit and the valiant hand was Dr. Hering's.
The history of Homoeopathy  in  this country cannot be fully
understood  Avithout reading the  narration of the " Allentown
Academy," as it  Avas generally called, of which an instructive
sketch may  be found in the second volume of the Transactions of
the World's Convention of 1876.  The  faculty  continued its
labors  till 1842, Avhen, after a  useful  but  brief career, the enter-
prise Avas discontinued.  Dr. Hering returned to Philadelphia,
but the same untiring zeal and  industry never deserted him.  He
has ever striven with an earnest purpose and an intelligent judg-
ment to develop and extend the resources of the Hahnemannian
therapeutics.  In  1844  he  presided  at the  organization  of the
American Institute of Homoeopathy, composed at first of a few
but zealous converts, but which he lived to see embracing many
hundreds of members.
  Apart from his scientific, literary,  and  professional labors, his
life during  the last thirty  years presents but feAV incidents  of
prominence.  With strong domestic habits, and a deep conviction
of his  duty  and mission, he  Avas content to carry on the work  of
his  vocation without ostentation, enjoying the respectful deference
of his  disciples, as they sought information or advice, more  than
the applause of the noisy multitude.
  Our venerable  colleague lived to a ripened age, and had seen
rich fruits from his unselfish and sometimes unappreciated  labors,
and he finally sunk to his rest July 23d, 1880, with the calmness
and composure of one who has performed his task with diligence
and honesty of purpose. 
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   The President, Dr. John W. Dowling, of New York, in
his address at the  opening of the  session, concluded  it
with  these words:

   I cannot close without reference to the great loss the entire
homoeopathic profession throughout the world has met with in
the death,  since we last met, of Dr.  Constantine Hering, Presi-
dent of the convention which originated the organization of the
American Institute of Homoeopathy.  In the midst of labors from
which, for  over fifty years, he had never  rested, he quietly fell
asleep.  I could hardly feel that this was an occasion for mourn-
ing, for he  had been Avith us more than half a score of years be-
yond  the allotted time of man;  and  this long,  this spotless life
had been one of usefulness and unremitting labor in the cause he
loved to the very end.  The results of the labor of his later years
are living,  and will live to aid  us and those who come after us
in the work to which our lives  are being devoted.  We should
rejoice that through all his long and active life not a truthful
word  had ever been uttered that could reflect on his character as
a man, as a Christian, and that at the last his death was peace-
ful, calm, and free  from protracted suffering.  We should rejoice
that his troubles, for he had sorrows—sorrows hard to bear, too
—are at an end, and that there is before  him an eternity of hap-
piness, for  I believe of such as he is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Others of us, noble men and true, dear to  their families, friends
and clientage, have died since we last  met  together,  but  this
pioneer was dear to us all, honored by us all, and he will  be re-
membered  by us all, and our children will be taught to  honor
his memory.

   At the opening of the memorial service, Dr. Henry D.
Paine spoke as follows:

   On this  occasion our thoughts naturally recur  to that great
bereavement which our school, especially this Institute, has  suf- 
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fered since  our last session, and in commemoration  of which,
it  is understood, we  are  noAV  called  together.  The  name of
Constantine Hering is so closely identified  Avith the  history of
Homoeopathy, his figure stands out so prominently in the prog-
ress of our art, and  his  Avritings have  exerted so wide  an influ-
ence in its development, that his death/though at the end of so
long a career, could not but  produce a profound impression
throughout our extremest ranks.  It is eminently proper that an
event so important and impressive  should  be distinguished by a
special solemnity.   My feeble tribute to his memory  has been
already offered.
   There are those present far better  able to  speak, not only of
his public and lasting services to the cause  to which so much of
his life Avas devoted, but of those rare virtues that shone so con-
spicuously in his private relations.  I am anxious to hear from
them.

   Dr. J. C. Morgan, of Philadelphia, then said :

   Havdng already  exhausted such reflections as seem  Avorthy
of our deceased colleague, Dr.  Hering,  in  connection with
our two Philadelphia meetings, I had  thought to  remain silent
here.   It  may explain the backwardness of other Philadelphia
members,  perhaps,  to say that this is  the  case  with  many of
them:  they feel, too, that  they have passed the subject of his
death  into the more sacred  precincts of the memory.   The re-
vival of it here by us, you Avill therefore understand, is attended
with something like the pain that one  has in  the uncovering of
an old and partly healed wound, or one, at least, which has  be-
come quiet; my colleagues from Philadelphia have, however, re-
quested me to introduce  this subject of such national interest.
Permit me, then, to make reference to my personal acquaintance
with Dr. Hering.  I will commence with one point, very import-
ant to me  personally,  by saying  that in boyhood, when Dr.
Hering Avas yet in the vigor of his  youth, I was taken to him for
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the purpose of medical treatment by a friend of his, one of his
early supporters, and also  a  friend of my OAvn, Mrs. Rev. Dr.
Bedell, and my recollection  of the prescriptions made by Dr.
Hering is that they Avere eminently successful.  We had no further
personal relations for very  many years.  In the meantime I had
become a physician of the  old school, later of the homoeopathic
school.   Even then  my acquaintance with Dr. Hering wras not
renewed ; this Avas partly owing to the fact that those from whom
I had just derived my impressions of Homoeopathy were his op-
ponents; as  Dr. Helmuth so  finely mentioned last  night in his
poem, " They have had disagreements in Philadelphia, the city
of brotherly love."   It so  happened  that I learned my Homoe-
opathy along with  antagonism to  Dr. Hering.  I was taught to
believe that he  was a visionary, to use the words of my infor-
mant, " an eccentric."  I, therefore, in all the pride of my youth,
and with my but half regenerate allopathic mind, refrained from
making his  acquaintance,  and I  will add  that  I am  heartily
ashamed to  have to say it.  I Avas, however, introduced to Dr.
Hering without my own knowledge, and in a way most character-
istic of himself.
  My home  was in Illinois,  a thousand miles from his.  I made
a two weeks' proving of Gelsemium, published in Dr. Shipman's
Journal  of Materia Medica.  Dr.  Hering's  peculiarity Avas that
he would seize upon provings wherever he found them, and with
the skill of the anatomist  would  dissect them,  and determine
their  essential points.  It  was my good fortune, therefore, to
meet Dr. Hering's skill in the discussion of my proving of that
drug.  That is to say, he found therein the  now historical symp-
tom, viz., that depressing emotions produce a tendency to  diar-
rhoeic disturbance of the intestinal canal.
  It was observed by me in  April, 1861, on reading the telegrams
of the firing  on Fort Sumpter; these so disturbed me that I gave
up the proving, and stated it as  a fact that the telegrams pro-
duced the effect.  But Dr. Hering, with the sagacity Avhich was
so peculiar to him, with that keen  eye and  that analytical skill 
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in Materia Medica in which he Avas facile princeps, seized upon
the very thing Avhich I thought was vitiating the proving; said
he, " There is the grand characteristic of the drug."  Years later,
after I had returned to Philadelphia and become acquainted with
him and others associated Avith him, I found that it had been
erected into what is now called a key-note.  He gave me back my
finding; and there are a thousand other such gems that we owe to
Dr. Hering.  In this  way, then, he had become acquainted with
me, and when I met him  in the college, he was prepared, and I
Avas prepared to form, as Ave did form, a warm and sympathetic
friendship.  I soon found  out that I had been utterly misled in
regard  to the  character—the intellectual  character, I mean, of
Dr. Hering;  no one dared breathe anything other than pro-
found respect for his moral character.  I have to say here, ladies
and gentlemen, that I believe Dr. Hering has been unfortunately
misunderstood  in this respect.   He had his own peculiarities; to
some he  may have  seemed,  perhaps,  sometimes disagreeable;
those who have suffered  from that  have, no doubt, buried the
recollection of it in his grave; but the idea of Dr. Hering being
backward in attending to the progress of research and science,
the idea  that  Dr. Hering  Avas at all a  visionary, in  the bad
sense, is a great mistake,  a great unconscious slander  upon the
memory of his intellectual  greatness.   As a matter of fact, Dr.
Hering was always foremost in  our school in recognizing  every
forward movement.  There is not a single one of the recent ad-
vances in science of Avhich he had not,  before any of his co-
laborers, learned something, and it has commonly happened, dur-
ing the past fifteen years, that when something new came up, and
I have gone to his office, I  found that he  had already become
cognizant of the details of the subject. Some of my first  infor-
mation in regard to the recent revelations of the spectroscope
came, to my surprise, from his lips.   Whatsoever had a bearing
upon Homoeopathy had for him a religious savor, and appeared
to him in all  the sanctity of a Divine revelation; so that if he
were ever intolerant, it was with the inspiration of the Crusader, 
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fighting for the Holy Sepulchre  against the infidel, or  of  the
Covenanter, defending his Bible in the mountain passes of his
native land.
  My acquaintance Avith Dr. Hering, in a social way, and more
especially in relation  to  the  college faculty,  was exceedingly
pleasant as a rule.  We did not always agree, that could not be
expected; but throughout we maintained that mutual respect and
affection which  I am glad to recall to-day. The faculty meetings,
held usually in his office,  in deference to his years, Avere really
club meetings in their social aspect.  They were all that "We  de-
sire in a  social club,  and he was the  illuminator of the club,
always ready with some  matter of interest and novelty, always
ready to give of his rich store of medical  information, always
ready with  some  new point in general science with which to
interest our minds, and valuable, either  in society  or in our pro-
fessional  duties; many a key-note, as we call, it in the Materia
Medica, have I received  from him in this way.  Indeed, it was
my  practice,  in   these  frequent   convocations  with  Hering,
Guernsey, Lippe,  Raue, etc., to have a little  memorandum book
and my lead pencil ready, and  often as  these golden  nuggets of
homoeopathic experience fell from the lips of these  experts, I re-
corded them ; and I think no one furnished them more frequently
than Dr. Hering.   This note-book became part and parcel of my
capital in professional work.  The matter that I am speaking of
I would  not part Avith for  any consideration.   Such, then, was
our relation in the faculty. We all looked upon him, as a matter
of course, as our  paterfamilias, and he so  regarded himself;
would sometimes, indeed, claim a little supremacy, and thought
that he might be  privileged to talk to  the  rest of us as  to the
" youngsters of the faculty."
  Once it was said to him, " Doctor Hering, these youngsters are
all about forty years of age and upwards."  " Boys of forty!" he
exclaimed, in jocular contempt, and so gained his point; we Avere
ahvays willing enough to be considered by him as "boys of forty,"
and in this way we got along happily, yielding to his supremacy 
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and ahvays profiting by it.  In  his last days, felloAV-members of
the Institute, Dr. Hering's heart-life seemed to undergo a special
development; the  Philadelphia members here present under-
stand what I mean.  He was born with the century; the first day
of January, 1800, Avitnessed his  advent into this world; and as
the year 1880 dawned, he reached his eightieth anniversary.  Dr.
Hering realized now that the  end of his  time was nearing.   He
made all arrangements in regard to his literary work—and that
Avork, let me assure  the profession,  is in able  hands, and will be
issued as he would  have  it.  This done, he  seemed to cling, as
never before, to those who had surrounded him  during the  past
years.  He  desired  that  we  should come often to see him; to
some, as to me, he said, " Here  is my study (many of  you know
it—on the second floor  of his  house), you have the  entree at all
times—come right up stairs and knock."   This was, of course, a
great privilege, of which we  were not slow to avail  ourselves,
and  to mvself they were  occasions of great satisfaction.   The
clinging of the dear old man  to these friends, and  to me among
the rest, at  this  time, was  touching, and I, for one, tried to be
faithful to his last  days, my only  regret being that I had  not
seen  him for three Aveeks at the time of his decease.  I think that
every one of our members from  Philadelphia will bear  me out in
saying that  the  kindliest  recollections of Dr. Hering  are those
of the last six months of his life.

   Dr. J. P. Dake,  of Nashville, next spoke as  follows, hav-
ing first made  a motion, which was carried, limiting each
speaker to five minutes:
   Mr. President:—I desire to say a few words  in  regard to the
character and labors of our deceased brother, the father of Ho-
moeopathy in America, Dr. Constantine Hering.  And in speak-
ing Avith regard  to him it is understood, perhaps, by all who are
present, that I Avas among those who differed with Dr. Hering,
pointedly and decidedly upon  several matters, and I feel that it is 
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therefore the more fitting that  I  should, upon this  occasion, say
something.  In Dr. Hering I  recognized, as I doubt not every
one here present did recognize, a genius in medicine, and not only
a genius in medicine, but a master-workman in medicine.  Rich in
new thoughts, he was industrious in the application and Avorking
out of those thoughts.  Dr.  Hering has added to our Materia
Medica many things of great value.  Those  things will remain,
and the passing years will increase their importance.   They will
be comprehended  more and more.  But  Dr. Hering was mortal;
Dr. Hering was fallible;  not all of his opinions can we accept,
nor can we appreciate the value of all that he has  added to the
Materia Medica;  but we, in the homoeopathic school, have been
taught to think independently, to think for ourselves, to weigh
all things and form our opinions in regard to them.  We learned
early, as did Hahnemann, who taught us to  disregard  authority
when authority was not in accord with  facts and with science.
Therefore, in taking  the  works and products left to  us by Dr.
Hering, it becomes us  not to  accept  them as revelations from
above, as perfect in all respects, but to accept them as contribu-
tions to  truth, and opinions  put  before  us for our consideration
and our use, in the light that is given us from all quarters.  We
are not expected, therefore, to accept all of Dr. Hering's works
and all of his teachings as authoritative, not to be differed from
at all.   What was defective and  erroneous in the opinions  and
works of Dr. Hering will  pass away.  No amount of veneration
for him, no amount of appreciation for his genius, nor his industry,
will require us to hold on to those things which experience  and
increasing light and knowledge do not  endorse and sustain.

   Dr.  H. M.  Smith, of New York City, was  the next
speaker; he said:

  Dr. Dake seems to have  been cut  short in the  expression of
his feelings in regard to Dr. Hering.   When he moved that the
time be limited to five minutes  to each speaker, he must have 
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knoAvn that he could not have expressed his feelings in so short a
time.  I could not imagine any occasion on Avhich I could not have
something to say about Dr. Constantine Hering, but in five min-
utes I don't know Avhere to begin any more than I know where I
shall end.  I can  only give expression to  my feelings and my
veneration for that man.  As a young man in the profession, I
cannot but think kindly of the many happy and instructive inter-
vieAvs I have had with him. ,  When  the American Homeopathic
Review Avas in existence, Ave received a great many contributions
and a great deal of assistance from Dr. Hering, and it Avas our
custom to spend one or two days with  him every summer.  Dr.
Carroll Dunham, Dr. P. P. Wells and myself went  on there to
meet the homoeopathic physicians from various sections  of the
country, and  in his study, that  Dr. Morgan speaks of, the recol-
lections come back to me of many pleasant and instructive hours,
and it  is pleasant to recall the merry  laugh  and cheery  face of
Dr. Hering, Avhen giving us some information or  relating an
anecdote.   I went in one day to  see  him especially in regard to
Digitalis.   He had written an article in the Review on Digitalis,
the second part of which was never published.  He was never
ready  to publish it  because some proofs were wanting he was
obliged to get from a convent  or monastery in  Italy.   After some
casual remarks I said, " Dr. Hering, I came to see you especially
in regard to  that article on  Digitalis; Avhen can you give  me
half an hour ?"  " Quarter  of four to-morrow morning," said he.
Accordingly, the following morning I was in Dr.  Hering's li-
brary.  The old gentleman slept there.  He had arisen from his
couch, and was reading.  He directed me to sit down, and to
write  what he dictated to me.  That was the  way that Dr. Her-
ing worked,  careful to obtain sufficient proof  before making
statements as  facts, and always  ready to assist everybody who
sought information. 
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   Dr. F. R. McManus, of Baltimore, said:

Mr. President and Gentlemen:
   I Avish to state a little incident that occurred in the early part
of my homoeopathic investigation and career.  I went from Balti-
more to Philadelphia  in  search of an allopathic  physician Avho
had practiced both systems, and I found one;  I Avent to another
physician afterwards, who was Dr. Hering.  I introduced myself
to Dr. Hering as Dr. McManus, of Baltimore.  I told him the
object of my visit, and he said, " I am ATery glad to see you, but
you have happened to call at a time when I am attending to my
consultations; take a seat  there for a few moments, when I will
talk to you."   Well, I waited until he got through, and I said to
him, " Doctor, I noticed you referring to your books and volumes
from the library in every case in Avhich you prescribe."   "Yes,"
said  he, " and no man will be the right kind of a homoeopathic
physician who does not do it, for there never was  a brain, in my
opinion, that could ever contain the one-hundredth part of what
it ought to hold to enable one to practice without studying every
case; every case is a new one."  I told him it seemed to be a work
of a great deal of labor.  " Well," said he, " when you come to
study Homoeopathy, you  will find out the difference in the tAVO
schools in regard to the means and facility to practice, because an
allopathic physician can prescribe for forty cases aa  here a homoeo-
path would hardly be able  to prescribe for two or three, or per-
haps one."   I merely  mention this because it will stimulate the
younger members  of the profession to individualize and study
their  cases closely, as it  has ahvays stimulated me in my forty-
three years of homoeopathic investigation and  practice.   It  has
been to my advantage to  do so, and, of course, much to the ad-
vantage of Homoeopathy.  I hold  his memory in  the sweetest
recollection,  and I am glad  that I cannot say anything  that will
throw the slightest cloud  upon his efficiency as a physician, or his
adherence to  Hahnemann as a homceopathist. 
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   Dr. T. C. Duncan, of Chicago, next spoke as follows:

 Mr. President and Gentlemen:
   I cannot allow this opportunity to pass Avithout presenting my
 deep  regret for the death of our distinguished father of Homoe-
 opathy in the United States, and the impression  made upon me
 by his loss will  deepen  as the years glide on.  I think the
 one thing that will impress the profession more than anything
 else, is the exhaustive power of Dr. Hering in gathering together
 the fund of information that Avas scattered here  and there in our
 medical writings.  He Avas the one individual of the whole Avorld
 of Homoeopathy that gathered  together  all  facts, and it is per-
 fectly Avonderful what he has accumulated, and  it seems to me
 very proper that some one should take this up and continue it.
   Various facts are coming  out bearing upon Materia  Medica
 and Therapeutics that will be lost except some one gather  them
 together as  did Hering.   Dr. Hering has made a noble begin-
 ning.  He has, I believe, in his library, or did have them at the
 time of the Centennial, every fact bearing upon Homoeopathic
 Materia  Medica extant.   His  memory will be bright  forever.
 I hold him in high  regard, and his influence upon the cause in
 the United States I think Ave cannot too highly appreciate.

   Dr. Fisher, of Montreal, Canada, said:

  I will  not take  up the time  very long, but still, while we are
 on the subject, I may mention that before I commenced practice
 on  this side of the  Atlantic, on my way back from Europe, I
 called at Philadelphia and saw Dr. Hering, and one of the things
 Avhich he then mentioned  and which I thought characteristic, I
was very much struck Avith, and I have often thought of it since.
 He said, " AVhen I come to the bed-side of a patient I very often
feel like a fool."  Now, such has been the result of my own ex-
perience on many occasions.   I have often  looked  back  and
thought of that fact, Avhich has encouraged me to go on, notwith- 
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standing I felt for a  moment like a fool.  There was another
thing struck me at the time somewhat. We were speaking about
somebody else, another medical man.   " Well," said he, " he is a
queer fellow, but Ave are all queer."  Well, that also struck me,
and I have often thought since that most of men are dreadfully
frightened by what the world calls  eccentricity.   Noav,  it has
often occurred to me that no man can be really original without
being more or less eccentric.  He may be eccentric without being
original, but  the effect of that eccentricity,  no doubt, keeps a
good many of us from doing things Avhich we would  otherwise
like to  do.

   Dr.  I. T. Talbot, of Boston, spoke next:

   I cannot let an occasion like this go by without  dropping one
tribute of memory to a great  man, for I believe Dr. Hering Avas
really great.  The memory of his kindness to students and  young
men, the memory of the kindness  of Dr. Hering to myself, who
had  no special claims  upon him in any way, is pleasant to con-
template.   Soon after I had  graduated, about to  visit Europe,
I was recommended by Dr. Carroll Dunham to get some  letters
from Dr.  Hering  to physicians living abroad, and assuring me
that he would be  willing to  give them, I called  upon him in
Philadelphia.  He was busy at the time, and said, " Come to me
to-night and I will be  happy to see you." " At Avhat time shall I
come?" "Well, I shall get  through  my wTork about 10 o'clock;
come then."  I went there.  He  had two friends with him who
were also acquainted in Europe and whom he had  brought there
for the special purpose of seeing me.  From 10 p.m. until  3 a.m.
was  spent in  talking of European affairs—of what could be of
benefit to  me in my trip abroad—a sacrifice on his  part  of sleep,
of rest, for an entire  stranger, which we could hardly suppose
any one Avould make on such an occasion.  Having made a list
of letters which he proposed to give, he the next day sent me six
to prominent persons in Europe, old Dr. Stapf being one of them. 
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The letters were  of great service to me, and the kindness ex-
tended by each of them I place as  a tribute to the memory of
Dr. Hering, and I venerate  that great heart, that noble spirit,
that could give  so much  to a young man without any claims
upon him.


   Dr. P. G. Valentine, of St. Louis, then rose and said:

   It seems that Avhat has been spoken in reference to Dr. Hering
this morning has  been  mostly of the nature  of personal remini-
scences of him.   I think that only  once was it my pleasure to
meet him, and that Avas when attending the Centennial meeting
in Philadelphia.   As he entered the door and  passed  down the
aisle he was cheered by all the members present. He came upon
the stand and took his seat  beside the others there, the English
gentlemen, etc.   But my acquaintance with Dr. Hering was en-
tirely through the Materia Medica.   I wish to say that through
that work I have learned to venerate and  admire him.  The
question Avith us in St. Louis, when any point  in Materia Materia
is  raised, is,  what does Dr.  Hering say?  I have no personal
recollections of him.   The only way I learned  to love him was
through the Materia Medica.


   Dr.  M. M. Eaton, of Cincinnati, said:

   It has  not been my privilege to have had a personal  acquaint-
ance with Dr. Hering, and I can only say that I feel that one of
our greatest  men has passed away. I feel  that he has left a
record  behind him worthy of emulation, and it struck me that
we should profit by the example which he has set, that we should
each endeavor to  do something to add to the storehouse of knowl-
edge for  those who may come after.   It strikes me that upon oc-
casions of this kind we should make such resolves as to our future
course  as may benefit mankind. 
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   Dr. S. R. Beckwith, of Cincinnati, said:

   I would like to hear from our President.

   Dr. J. W. Dowling, of New York, here said:
   The President has already spoken in his Annual Address all
 that he can say on  the subject of the death of our dear friend,
 Dr. Hering, and he has  also  alluded  to others who have died.
 Those words are on record.  I  hardly think that I would say
 anything different  or add  anything to what I said upon that
 occasion.
   This to me  has  been an exceedingly interesting and solemn
 service.  I feel that it  has  been  so to all, and I hope that when
 others of us depart, the members Avho are left behind will be able
 to say as many kind and good words with regard to us as have
 been said of Dr. Hering, our departed brother.

   Dr. Wm. von Gottschalk,  of Providence, was the  last
 speaker; he said:

 Mr. President and Fellow-Members:—
  I Avish to say a few words of Dr. Hering as  a German.  As
 there are no Germans here to speak about him or in his memory,
 I thought it Avas finally my duty, after so many  different Ameri-
 cans have spoken in the praise  of that most peculiar man, to give
 my tribute to his character in a different way. I saw Dr. Hering
 first in 1852, when I was an old school practitioner in the city of
 New York.  I was  then induced to try  Homoeopathy.  I still
 looked upon Homoeopathy as a peculiar quackery, and I wanted
 to see the greatest quack of them all.  Dr. Hering being a coun-
 tryman of mine, I visited him,  and he struck me  peculiarly.  He
 encouraged me in Homoeopathy more than any other man I ever
 met, and he probably was the  sole cause of my becoming a com-
plete homoeopath, and I owe to him and to his influence my posi-
tion in Homoeopathy to-day.  What I want to allude to now in 
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 particular is his distinguishing German characteristics.  As  a
 scholar he was a thorough German, and in his family relations
 he was a thorough German.   I know that Avhen in 1876 I came
 to his house, the moment I entered he called me by name.  He
 called me the Yankee-Dutchman, and wanted me to sit down
 and take  a glass of Avine with him.   Now, in response to his re-
 quest, I went out into  the back yard of his house, where there
 was a little arbor, and under this arbor the table  spread for the
 family, and as a friend I sat doAvn there to speak to him.
   On the table Avere  familiar German  dishes, and  the hospi-
• tality of a German Avas extended.   It Avas a delight to be there
 and receive the hospitality of that man.  He was a true German
 in all his habits to  the very last  moments of his life.  I  wish
 somebody else, better able and better qualified in the use of the
 English  than I am, would pay a proper tribute to him  in this
 regard.  You see other  Germans generally become Americanized.
 Dr. Hering ahvays adhered  to his  Fatherland habits, a thing
 which I have not done.   But I respect him for this peculiar
 characteristic, that in  all his life  he remained as he was  born
 —a German.
               TRIBUTE  FROM ITALY.
  Dr. Pompili, of Rome, on behalf of the Italian practi-
tioners of Homoeopathy, has requested the publication of
the following  tribute, to which is appended a translation
kindly furnished by Dr. Horace Howard Furness: 
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             Constantino Hering




         Artis Medico Doctori eximio




         post Ha hnemannum Magistrum





    sele schol.e principi  ac decori pr^cipuo




                     QUI




doctrina editisque de Homceopathia. VOLUMINIBUS




               ubique terrarum




     veri cupidos docuit, docet et docebit




       joachimus pompilius in tjrbe m.d.




    suo itali^que homceopathicorum nomine




    ob  tantum vlrum amissum mc2rentissimus




          Honoris Memori.eq.ue ergo




              inscribit et dicat. 
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                        To
                Constantine Hering
          the excellent Doctor of Medicine
         next after the master, hahnemann,
  the Chief and pre-eminent ornament of his School
                       who
IN word and in print by his discoveries in Homgsopathy
         teaches, has taught and will teach
 all "who are desirous of truth throughout  the world
                    this Tribute
 to the Honor and to the Memory of a Man thus lost
                        and
               most deeply mourned
                       is  by
               Joachim Pompili, M.D.,
         in his own name and in the name of
      the Practitioners of  Homoeopathy in Italy
               inscribed and dedicated. 
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              OBITUARY NOTICES.

  Of the numerous  obituary notices which appeared in
the daily papers, and in the  various medical journals
throughout the world, only a few of the foreign ones are
published as indicating the esteem  and  veneration in
which the subject of this Memoir was held in other than
the two great English-speaking  nations, and especially
in his own dear fatherland.
  In La Reforma Medica, organ of the Mexican Homoeo-
pathic Institute, published in Mexico, the following* ap-
peared in the issue of September 25th, 1880:

  When, full of satisfaction,  in the  preceding  number of this
organ, we gave to our readers the statistical data showing the
progressive march of Homoeopathy in our neighboring Republic,
hoAV far Avere we from imagining, that at that time had already
descended to the grave the illustrious physician,  the venerable
apostle, introducer and propagator  of the medical reform  in the
United States, the eminent man, who, for his  great works  in be-
half  of our cause, was  called the Hahnemann of  America, and
to whom the  love and veneration  of all the  homoeopathists of
that nation had given the no less valuable and significant title of
" Father Hering."
  Constantine Hering died on the 23d of July, in the eighty-first
year  of his age.  His  name is  intimately connected with the
history of the introduction and development of the Hahnemanuian
doctrines in the United States, and to try to give here his biog-
raphy would be as much as to write said history.  There is not
a city, toAvn, village, or abode, where Homoeopathy is known,

  * Translated from the Spanish by Dr. E. Fornias, of Philadelphia. 
353
which is not also familiar with the name of Dr. Heriug, whose
domestic work on  Homoeopathy, printed  by the thousands and
in numerous editions, translated into the principal  languages,
has contributed  in a profitable manner to  the diffusion of this
modern system  of medicine.   His fruitful studies and experi-
ments with  the  snake poisons, which, thanks to him, are to-day
converted into valuable  therapeutic agents; his constant efforts
in the revision and perfection of our Materia Medica;  his abso-
lute devotion to  the great work of medical regeneration and re-
form ; his writings and works which may be called classic; his
exemplary life and great civic virtues make Constantine Hering
a grand figure  in the school of homoeopathic medicine, an ex-
ample  to follow, and his loss an irreparable one, which Avill be
lamented by all  who respect  science and who care for the public
welfare.
  The Mexican  Homoeopathic Institute earnestly unites in con-
dolence with the homoeopathic profession, and  offers its modest
tribute  to the imperishable name and memory of Dr. Constantine
Hering.

   In the Allgemeine Homoeopathische Zeitung, published in
Leipzig, in the issue of August 24th, 1880, appeared the
following


  38a§  im 2lnfange btefe§ $a&re§ H a*§ fcrffd>e8  ©erudjt entries, iff
je$t jur traurigen 2BtrfUcfcfeit geroorben, ber 2lltmeifter Gonftantin
Bering in ^btlabelpfua  fiat ber 5ftatur  feinen Xrt&ut geja&lt.  @r
ftorB am grettag, ben 23. %uli, 2t6enb§  10 Ufir in feiner 2Bofcnung,
am £ergfc61age,  nacfibem  er nocfi  roenige ©tunben  worfier Slranfe
empfangen Batte. <3ein 9?ame iff un§ertrennhc&  mit ber  ©efdncfite
ber §omoopat&ie oerroacfefen. 2(u§geftattet mit ungeroo&nltcfier @eifte§=
fraft unb ©nergie, retdj an SBiffen,  f)at  er,  ba§  gtauben  roir  obne
Uefcer&ebung fcebaupten gu fbnnen, bag 3Jieifte jur Sefeftigung unb
        23 
354
3Serbrettung ber von tbm erfannten bombopatbtfdjen SSabrbett betge=
tragen.   @in ed)ter ^aulu§, jog er iiber ben Ocean unb unter SRufoen
unb ©ntbebrungen prebtgte er bie neue Sebre.  Unb am 2tbenb feineS
2eben§  &atte er bie ^reube, btefelbe in  feinem neuen SSaterlanbe in
fefter unb geacbteter ©tettung unb  con Staufenben con 2lergten au§=
geitbt gu feben.   2)efj ungeacbtet gbnnte  er  ficb feine Siu^e,  fonbern
roar bi§ gum letjten 2lugenblicfe unauSgefetjt tbattg.   SDer £ob iibers
rafdjte  tbm bet  ber 3ftetrifu>n be§ britten 33anbe§  feineS £auptmerfe§
"Guiding Symptoms."  ©ein 2lnbenfen  nrirb,  fo lange  e§ nod)
bomoopatljifcbe 2(ergte giebt, ein unoerganglicbeS  fein.  Son tbm gilt
oor Sltten ba§  2Bort: „er  rubet au§  won  feiner 2lrbeit unb  feine
SEerle folgen tbm nad)!"
   (Stnen au§fubrltd)eren 9MroIog  roerben mtr in einer  ber nadjften
SRummern bringen.

   A week later appeared the following:

                       Hcfrolog.

   ©iner ber bebeutenbften unb  befannteften, menu nicbt bertibmteften
beutfcben burger ^bilabetpbtaS,  Dr. So nft an tin §ering, ift am
greitag, ben 23. ^uli, SlbenbS 10 Hbr bafelbft in feiner SSobnung am
§ergfcblag geftorben, nur roenige ©tunben nad) ber  $ranfenbef)anb=
lung in  ber ©precbftunbe, alfo in cotter SRuftung.   ©eit faft fiinfgig
gabren  getjorte berfelbe §u ben bernorragenbften -JJtannern ber mebi=
cinifcben 2Btffenfcbaft in  ben 3Sereinigten ©taaten, unb nabm  gugleid)
in bem beutfcb=amerifamfcben Element etne bod)gead)tete ©tettung ein,
burd)  feine lebbafte unb raftlofe £beilnabme  an Sfttem, raa§ beffen
©tettung unb ©ntnrideutng fbrbern  unb beben fonnte.  2ltte  23eftre=
bungen  im  Stttgemeinen  fiir  nriffenfcbaftltcben,  fimftlerifdjen unb
focialen gortfcbrttt  batten  iiberbaupt in tbm  einen  entbuftaftifcben
SSertreter unb tbatfraftigen, Itberalen Unterftutjer.
   Dr. §ering mar am 1. ^anuar 1800 in Dfd)a£ in ©ad)fen ge*
boren, alfo bei  feinem £ob iiber 80 ^abre  alt.   £)abet  abcr mar er
bi§ auf ben le^ten Stag raftlog in feinem Seruf unb in feiner SBiffen= 
355
fcbaft tbcttig, unb nod) tmmer fiir afteZ ©ebbne, SSabre unb ©ute be=
geiftert, roenn er ftcfc aud) in ben le^ten ^abren roegen ^ranflicbfeit
mebr al§ friiber r>on bem bffentlid)en 2eben guritdgegogen  batte.  @r
batte ficb feine geiftige ^ugenbfrifdje bi§ gu feinem 3Tobe erbalten.
  ©ebon  frub  entrotdelte  ber  SSerftorbene bie grbfjte SSorliebe fiir
9Jaturftubien, unb nribmete fid) nacb Stbfolmrung beS ©nmnafiumS gu
gtttau auf ber ebtrurgtfeben 2lfabemte gu ©re§ben unb auf ber Unber=
fitatSetpgig ber 9Jcebtcin.  £>ie 2lufgabe, eine 2lbbanblung gegen
bie  $ombopatbie  unb  gegen beren ^auptoertreter £>abnemamt  gu
febreiben,  fiibrte tbn gum tteferen ©tubium berfelben unb gur S3eler)=
rung bagu.   %n  feiner  ©oftor^iffertation "De Medicina Futura"
(iiber bie 9Jcebicm  ber  3ufunft) trat  er  fur  biefelbe  auf.   2lm 23.
3Jidrg 1826 murbe er Mtor ber Sttebtctn.
  Gr nabm alsbann eine ©telle al§ Sebrer ber -Stotberaattf unb ber
9taturroiffenfebaften beim ^nftttut Slocbmann  gu 2)re3ben  an, erbielt
aber balb bie ©tette eine§ 2lffiftenten bei einer roiffenfebaftlicben ©£=
pebttion nad) ©urinam  in ©iib=2tmerifa.   3)a ibm feine febriftftetterh
fd)e £batigfeit al§ §ombopatb babet unterfagt murbe, refigmrte er unb
rourbe praftifeber 2lrgt  in Paramaribo,   ^m  $abre 1833  auf  einer
SBefucbSretfe  nad) SDeutfeblanb  fam er nad; ^btfabelpbia unb murbe
gum SDableiben oeranlafjt, erbielt  fofort  eine gute ^rajrtS unb murbe
t>on  bem  beutfeben i^ombopatben  Dr. 2Beffelbbft Deranlafjt, mit ibm
eine bombopatbtfebe 2lnftalt gu 2lttentoron gu griinben, mo er fid)  bann
mebrere ^abre  fang aufbtelt.  2lu§ biefer  ©cbule ging bann  1846 baS
bombopatbifebe  Gottege gu ^Bbilabelpbta beroor.
  Surd) bie  Grricbtung be§ letjteren murbe Dr. Bering ber  eigent=
Itebe Segrunber ber £>ombopatbte in 2lmerifa, unter beren Sebrern unb
©ehriftftettern  er  eine  ber erften  ©tettungen  einnabm.   Gr febrieb
„Ueber bie Gntftebung unb ben $ortfd)rttt ber £ombopatbie" unb mar
^rofeffor  ber 2lrgneifunbe an jener Unberfitat oon  1846  bi§ 1869;
aufjerbem mar  er GJrimber unb ^rafibent  be§  „2lmertfanifd)en %n\tu
tuts ber §ombopatbte."  SDurcb  feine ©cbrift „£)er §au§argt" macbte
er fieb febr befannt unb popular,   ©ie roar urfpriinglicb beutfeb ge=
febrteben,  rourbe  aber balb in bag Gnglifcbe,  grangbftfebe, ©panifebe
unb  ^talienifcbe  iiberfe^t.   ^n  1869  erricbtete er  bag amerifanifebe
journal ber bombopatbifeben " Materia Medica." 
356
   ©ein igauptroerf aber, an roelcbem  er  unauSgefetjt arbeitete, fiibrf
ben Xitel " Guiding Symptoms" (Seitenbe ©nmptome) unb foil bie
Gbarafteriftif jebeg Slrgnetmittelg geben.  £>ag 2Berl iff auf 12 big 15
Sanbe  berecbnet  unb  finb  baoon  erft  2 SBdnbe  erfd)ienen.   SDag
5ftatertal fiir bie  iibrigen ift  aber  ber 2lrt forbereitet, bafj biefelben
non Slnberen berauggegeben  roerben   fbmten.   Dr. Bering  roar
gerabe mit ber 3^et)ifion beg britten 33anbeg  befd)dftigt, alg  ibn ber
%oo iiberrafcbte.
   £)er 23erftorbene roar ein  roabreg Unit)erfal=@ente unb bbcbft origin
nett in feinen 2lnfid)ten unb 2leuf$erungen, babet ein Mann ftrengfter
Gbrenbafttgleit.   2ln ber ^3olitif, an roelcber  er iibrigeng ebenfo, rote
an Slttem, bag  grbfjte ^ntereffe  batte,  nabm er actio  roentg Slntbeil.
£)efto mebr  lebte er ber SBiffenfcbaft unb $unft; mit bbcbfter 2tberali=
tat eroffnete er fein £>aug atten bebeutenben -DSJcannern ber 2Biffenfd)aft
unb $unft, bag burcb feine  literarifeben unb  mufitalifcben Unterbals
tungen lange 3eit emen gjjittelpunft  geiftigen Sebeng unb ©trebeng
bilbete.  2lm alten SSaterlanb unb  an  Slttem, roag SDeutfcb roar,  f)tng
ber SSerftorbene mit entbufiafttfcber SSorliebe.  SDie beutfeben ©iege
unb bie Grricbtung beg beutfeben Steicbg  rourben  tron ibm burd) ein
grojjeg f^eft in feinem an einen geraumigen ©arten ftofjenben §aug, in
ber ^roblften ©trafje, oberbalb 2lrd), gefeiert.
   Dr. Bering roar breimal oerbeiratbet; feine erfte $rau beiratbete
er in ©urinam, too fie  ftarb unb  too  nocb ein ©obn von  ibm  lebt.
©eine groeite $xau roar con  ^btlabelpbta, bie ibm brei ^inber binter*
liejj, roooon nod) eine Stocbter lebt, bie in Lofton oerbetratfyet ift.   ^n
1845 beiratbete er in  SDeutfdjlanb bie STocbter oon Dr.  SBucbbeim,
etnem beriibmten 2(rgt, bie ibm acbt $inber febenfte, roonon ibn fecbg
nebft ber Gutter iiberleben.   ©ein  dltefter, in ^bilabelpbia lebenber
©obn, 3tuboIf,  ift  Slffiftentsgngenieur im ftdbtifeben 3Sermeffungg=
department, unb  augenblidlid)  auf  einer  3tetfe in  Guropa,  um bie
biefigen ©nfteme ftabtifeber 2Bafferleitungen gu ftubiren.

   In the Homoopathische Monatsblatter, published in Stutt-
gart, the following notice  appeared in the  issue of  Octo-
ber, 1880: 
357
                      7X c f r o I o g.

  SCRtt roenigen SSorten lonnten roir nor trier SSocben unferen Sefern
ben am 2tbenb beg 23. ^uli erfolgten Xob beg 2tltmeifterg ber £>omb=
opatbte Dr. med.  Gonftantin Bering mittbeilen.   £)er 9iaum
trieler  9a«nmem  unferer  „£>ombopatifd)en 9JionatgbIdtter" rourbe
ntcbt binreicben, um biefeg 9)ianneg 2thzn unb SBirfen,  feine  SSer=
btenfte um 2lugbreitung unb 2lugbilbung  ber 2ebre ^abnemanng unb
feine raftlofe aufopfernbe Xbdtigfett in biefer Sfticbtung  nad) ©ebiibr
gu befcbreiben unb gu rourbigen.
  SBir 2aien baben nod)  bagu befonbere Urfacbe, beg SSerftorbenen in
banlbarer 2lner!ennung unb 3Serebrung gu gebenfen;  benn er roar eg,
ber bie Sebeutung beg Satenelementg in  ber §ombopatbie aug lang=
jdbriger  eigener Grfabrung fennen gelernt;  er roar eg, ber  biefer
feiner geroonnenen Uebergeugung berebten 2lugbrud  gab in ben 2Bor=
ten, bie er ber  14. Sluflage feineg ^anbbucbg, betitelt „§ombopatb>
feber £augargt," noranfetjte:

     „£)en Saiennereinen im  beutfeben 9teicbe, unferer grofcen ©acbe
     „grofjte ^offnung, aug nottem §ergen geroibmet."

  Gonftantin Bering roar am 1.  $anuar 18°0 in bem ©tdbteben
Ofcbatj in ©aebfen geboren, geigte  febon  alg ®nabe eine grofce  3Sor=
liebe  fiir 9taturftubten unb  roibmete ficb, alg  er bie Gramma  gur
Uninerfitdt beftanben batte, bem ©tubium ber SDtebicin, unb groar in
Seipgig.
  Bering ift einer ber febr roenigen Stergte, roelcbe febon mit bem 3Ser=
laffen ber Unioerfitdt anfingen, fiir bie §ombopatbte gu roirfen;  t>er=
anlafjt bagu  rourbe er  burd) ben  bemerfengroertben Umftanb, bafj er
eine Slbbanblung  gegen bie £ombopatbie  unb  gegen §abnemann
cerfaffen  roottte.   ©ie griinblicben ©tubien, bie er  gu biefem groede
macbte, oerroanbelten ben ©aulug in einen ^aulug unb neranlafjten
ibn, in feiner  3)oftor=©iffertation  " de medicina futura" (iiber bie
gufiinftige 9Jcebicin) offen fiir bie £ombopatbie aufgutreten. £ro$bem
rourbe er  am 23.  9Jcdrg 1826 gum SDoftor ber SCcebicin grabuirt, roag
beildufig  gefant  beutigen  £ageg  unter  bem  Sftegiment ber „mebr 
358
rotffenfebaftUcb gebilbeten" ^3rofefforen ber 9Jtebicin mit einer fo!d)en
Strbeit an feiner beutfeben Unberfitat mbglid) fein rourbe.
   ©ein SDrang gum Steifen neranlaftte  it)n, bie ©telle etneg Sebrerg
ber ^aturroiffenfebaften  unb ^Jcatbemaiif, bie  er in  ©regben ange=
nommen Ibatte, balb roieber aufgugeben  unb ficb einer roiffenfebaft=
licben Gjpebition nad) Surinam in ©ubamerifa angufdbltefjen.  Gr
febrte feinen ©efdbrten jebod) balb  ben Sfttden  unb blieb  alg prafti=
feber 2Irgt in Paramaribo,  ^m $abre 1833 liejj er ficb in $btla =
belpbia nieber, too er  eine gute $rarjg  befam.   $m ^abre 1846
grifnbete er bie erfte bombopatbjfcbe SBilbungganftalt  fiir  Sftebiciner,
bag  bombopatbifebe  Gottege in  ^Bbilabelpbia.   SDamit  legte  er ben
©runb  gur erfolgreicben, nacbbaltigen SSerbreitung  ber  §ombopatbie
in Slmerifa.  Srie Umftdnbe braebten eg mit ficb, baft er mebr in eng^
Ufcber ©pracbe alg in feiner 9flutterfprad)e febrieb, unb rodbrenb ung
beutfeben nur fein „§augargt" alg unoergdnglicbeg 2lnbenfen an ben
Serftorbenen bleibt, bat er com ^abre 1869 an  in bem amerifanifeben
journal " Materia Medica" unb nocb mebr in  feinem leiber nod) un=
oottenbeten §auptroerie  "Guiding  Symptoms" („£eitenbe ©nmp=
tome") ficb in Stmeriia ein SDenfmal fiir atte gufunft gefe|t.
   Dr. Bering roar  breimal nerbeiratbet;  feine erfte $rau batte er in
©urinam lennen  gelernt; fie ftarb balb  unb binterlieft  ibm einen
(nod) lebenben) ©obn.   ©eine groeite $rau  roar r>on Spbilabelpbia;
eine Xod^ter aug biefer Gbe lebt oerbeiratbet in S3ofton.   ©ie britte
$tau, bie er 1845 non SDeutfcblanb  beimgefiibrt, betrauert  mit 6 Rxn*
bem ben SSerluft beg geliebten ©atten unb  SSaterg.
   2lber aud> roir 2lnbern atte empfinben ben §ingang biefeg 9ERamteg
alg  einen roabrbaft unerfettftcben Serluft!   9Benn ibn SBoblrootten
gegen feine Stfebenmenfeben, Sftecbtliebtett  unb ©eroiffenbaftigieit in ben
roeiteften ^retfen belannt unb beliebt gemaebt  batten, fo febd^ten bie
tbm ndber ©tebenben  feine aufriehtige grbmmigfeit,  feinen  feften
©lauben an ein SBteberfeben  nacb bem £obe  alg einen r>erebrungg=
roiirbigen $ug  feineg mafellofen  Gbarafterg.  ©eine Seicbenfeier,
roelcber bte ^afultdt beg Hahnemann  Medical College, fourie bie
Jrireftoren ber American Homoeopathic Publishing Society unb
gablreidje SDelegirte drgtlidjer 3Seretne beiroobnten, roar ein  fprecbenbeg 
359
3eugntft fiir bie atlgemetne SBeliebtbett, beren fid) biefer feltene 9Jlann
im Seben gu erfreuen batte.
   3ln  ung Saien ift  eg,  bie groften £>offnungen, bie  er  auf unfere
33ereine  gefetjt, gu r>errotrflid)en!   ©amit efyren roir  am beften bag
2lnbenfen an biefen etfrtgften unb talenttrottften ©djitler igalmemanng.

   In  the Populare Zeitschrift fur  Homoopathie, published
in Leipzig, the following obituary notice appeared in the
issue  of September 1st, 1880:


                       Hefrolog.

   2tlg roir  in  ber  am  1. ^anuar  b. $.  erfcbienenen  Summer ber
„^3opuldren gettfcbrtft fiir ^omoopatbie" bag portrait unfereg  ebr=
roiirbigen SSeteranen ^rofeffor Dr. Gonftantin  Bering in ^}bila=
betpt)ia bracbten unb ben ^ubilar gu feinem acbtgigften ©eburtgtage
beglucfrounfcbten, ba  abnten roir  nicbt,  baft bag  Sibelroort:  „£)eg
2Henfd)en 2eben rodbret fiebengig  ^abre, unb roenn'g bocb fommt,  fo
ftnb'g  acbtgig, unb ift eg Ibftlid) geroefen,  fo ift eg SDlube unb 2lrbett
.geroefen," fcbon fo  balb an bem  immer noeb  riifttgen unb tbdtigen
©retfe  ficb  beroafyrbeiten  fottte.  Gin Xelegram  aug ^pbilabelpbia,
roelcbeg ung £>err Dr.  ^eermann non irmnbermarf in ^arig
itbermtttelte, melbete ung feinen am  23.  ^uli, 2lbenbg 10 Ubr erfolg=
ten £ob, unb  beute,  mo  roir  biefeg febreiben, liegen  ung gablreicbe
amerifanifebe unb  beutfebe flatter nor  mit  ben  ebrennottften 9cnd)=
rufen fiir „ben bebeutenbften unb befannteften, roenn  nicbt  beriibnu
teften  Sitrger  ^Sbilabelpbiag," ben ber £ob roemge  ©tunben  nad}
feiner  Stitcffebr non etnem  $ranfenbefucb, alfo  in trotter Stiiftung,
ereilte.  2Bag  Gonftantin Bering  ung  §ombopatben  in  bem
geitraum eineg ^alh^n ^abrbunbertg alg  ©cbriftftetter unb Slrgt ge=
roefen  ift, bag baben roir nor roentgen 9Jlonaten in ber, feinem portrait
beigegebenen Stograpbie bargetban.   ©ein §auptroerf, an roelcbem  er
big gu  feinem £obe arbettete unb beffen  britter  33anb r>on ibm foeben
nottenbet roar, roirb tron feinen ©cbiilern roetter berauggegeben roerben. 
360
Gg fiibrt ben £itel "Guiding Symptoms" („£ettenbe ©nmptome"),
ift auf 15 33dnbe bereebnet, unb entbdlt bie Outnteffeng ber gefammten
fyomoopatbtfcben  Slrgnetmtttellebre.  £>ag SKatertal gu ben nod) feb=
lenben 33dnben ift von bem ©abingefcbtebenen berart georbnet ijinter=
laffen roorben, baft beren §erauggeber roenig 3Jiitbe ^ahtn roerben.
   Obgletcb er bie meiften neueren 2Berfe in  engltfeber ©pracbe publh
ctrte, fo btng er bodj mit cotter Stebe an fetnem beutfeben 33aterlanbe
unb ftanb  mit  ben  beutfeben §ombopatben  in regem SSerlebr.   £>te
beutfeben ©tege unb bie Grricbtung beg beutfeben 3teicbe§ rourben r>on
tbm burd)  ein  grofteg $e\t in  fetnem, an  einen  gerdumtgen  ©arten
ftoftenben £>aufe gefetert.   Sefjtereg roar ber 9Jcittelpunft beg geiftigen
Sebeng ber beutfeben in ^3b,tlabelpbta  unb mit  grbftter  Siberalttat
atten 3Jcdnnern ber $unft unb SBiffenfcbaft gu jeber ©tunbe gebffnet.
Sftaftlog nabm Bering  an 3lttem Stbeil, roag bie Gntroidelung beg
beutfeben Glementeg in 3lmertfa  fbrbern unb ^ehzn fonnte; unb alg
^rofeffor Sfteuleaur. iiber bie  beutfebe iynbuftrte  auf  ber 2Beltaug=
ftettung in ^Bbilabelpbta bag gefliigelte 28ort fpracb: „35ittig  unb
fcblecbt!" ba braufte er auf in  einem an ben £>erauggeber b. $. ge=
ricbteten SSriefe:  „baft ^rofeffor Steuleaur,  mit feinem Gtngtgen ber
acbtbaren beutfeben in ^Sbilabelpbia gefprocben, baft er in fetnem S3e=
ricbte oerfebrotegen batte baft  bie  ^Breife unb 3luggeicbnungen norgugg=
roetfe ben Slrbeiten »on  beutfeben in ^Bhilabelpbia gugefaffen feien,
unb baft ben eingtgen ^}reig, ber bie §ombopatbie betraf, ein 2)eutfd)er
erbielt."
   $exn non  fetnem  geliebten  SSaterlanbe  roerben feine  fterblicben
Ueberrefte in frember Grbe  ruben.  ©ein ©eift aber roirb fortleben in
ber §etlmetbobe ©amuel §abnemann'g, biefem $inbe debt beutfeben
©eifteg,  ^leifteg  unb  ©trebeng, unb fiir immer  roirb  ficb an  ben
9lamen Gonftantin  Bering bie Grinnerung fniipfen, baft  er nicbt
bloft ber befte tenner ber bombopaibifeben 2lrgneimtttellebre, fonbern
aucb, ndcbft §af)nemann, beren eifrigfter gorberer geroefen ift.

                   <£bre feinem  2tngeben!en!
                   ^riebe  feiner  &fd}c! 
INDEX.
 Allen, Dr. H. C, remarks of, 272.
 Allen, Dr. T. F., remarks of, 176.
 Ailgemeine Homoeopathische Zeitung Todesanzeige, 353.
 American Institute Memorial Service, 331.
 Baxter, Dr. H. H., report by, 278.
 Bayard, Dr. E., address by,  169.
    "      "   remarks of,  188.
 Beckwith, Dr. D. H., remarks of, 279.
 Bigler, Dr. W. H., remarks  of, 138.
 Biographical Sketch by Dr.  C. Gundelach, 234.
 Bolles, Kev. Dr., remarks of, 276.
 Boston, Meeting of Physicians of, 147.
 Boyce, Dr. C. W., reminiscences by, 212.
 British Homoeopathic Congress, 162.
 Burnham, Dr., remarks of, 283.
 Canadian Homoeopathic Institute Meeting, 327.
 Carleton, Dr. E., Jr., remarks of, 185.
 Carriere, Dr. Charles L., remarks of, 245.
 Cleveland, Meeting in, 276.
 Cole, Dr. A. L., remarks of,  285.
 Dake, Dr. J. P., remarks of,  341.
 Denver, Meeting in, 282.
 DescheVe, Dr. Martin, remarks of, 208.
 Dowling, Dr. J. W., address by, 336.
    '"       "      remarks of, 181, 348.
 Dudley, Dr.  Pemberton, remarks of, 141.
 Duncan, Dr. T. C, remarks of, 345.
 Eastman, Dr. Emma, remarks of, 287.
 Eaton, Dr. M. M., remarks of, 347.
 Edmonds, Dr. W. A., remarks of, 237.
Eulogy by Dr. C. Heermann, Paris, 316.
Everett, Dr.  Ambrose S., remarks of, 289
Finch, Dr. Joseph, remarks of, 179.
Fisher, Dr., remarks of, 345. 
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Franklin, Dr. E. C, remarks of, 262.
Frohne, Dr. J. P., remarks of, 244.
Funeral Sermon, 148.
   "    Services, 148.
Gause, Dr. O. B., remarks of, 132.
Gilbert, Dr. Charles B., remarks  of, 211.
Goodman, Dr. C. H., incidents related by, 248.
Gottschalk, Dr.  William von, remarks of, 348.
Guernsey, Dr. E., remarks of, 182.
    "    Dr. Henry N., address  by,  195.
    "     Dr. Joseph C, remarks of,  228.
Gundelach, Dr.  Charles, biographical sketch by, 234.
Hahnemann Medical College tribute,  188.
Hallock, Dr. L., remarks of, 184.
Hart, Dr. C. N., remarks of, 293.
Hills, Dr. Alfred K., remarks of,  184.
Inaugural Dissertation, 228.
Ingersoll, Dr. L. J., remarks of, 287.
Italy, Tribute from, 350.
James, Dr. Bushrod W., remarks  of, 203.
Joslin, Dr. B. F., note from, 182.
Kansas City, Meeting in, 261.
  "    Physicians, memorial address  to, 304.
Kershaw, Dr. J. Martin, tribute by, 242.
Korndcerfer, Dr. Augustus, remarks by, 136.
Lee, Dr. John K., address by, 167, 226.
 "        "      remarks of; 142.
Liebold, Dr. C.  Th., remarks of, 180.
Lilienthal, Dr. Samuel, remarks of,  163,  166, 174.
Lippe, Dr. A., address by, 129, 192.
  "    Dr. Constantine, remarks of, 210.
McClatchey, Dr. K J., remarks of, 200.
McManus, Dr. F. R., remarks of,  329, 344.
Maryland State  Society Meeting,  328.
Memorial Address to Kansas Physicians, 304.
    "    Committee, composition of, 144.
    "    Meetings, 158.
Mexican Homoeopathic Institute tribute, 352.
Michigan College of Physicians and Surgeons, 161.
    "    University of, meeting,  261.
Minneapolis, Meeting in, 294. 
363
Mohr, Dr. Charles, remarks of, 230.
Morgan, Dr. J. C, address by, 133.
    "      "     eulogy by, 205.
           "     remarks of, 337.
Necrology, 353, 357, 359.
Necrology by Dr. Henry D. Paine, 331.
Negendank, Dr. A., address by, 309.
New York City, Meeting of Physicians of, 145.
New York County Society Meeting, 169.
New York State Society Meeting, 163.
Northern New York Medical Society  Meeting, 160.
Norton, Dr. George S., remarks of, 183.
Obituary Notices, 352.
Obituary Notice in the Ailgemeine Hom. Zeitung, 354.
           "   in the Homoopathische Monatsblatter,  357.
    "      "    in La Reforma Medica, 352.
    "      "   Populare  Zeitschrift  fiir Homoopathie, 359.
Onondaga County Memorial Meeting, 158.
Paine, Dr. Henry D.,  Necrological Report by, 331.
  "        "        remarks of, 336.
Pall Bearers, list of, 143,
Paris, Meeting in, 314.
Parsons, Dr. S. B., remarks of, 240.
Pearson, Dr. C, remarks of, 189.
Pennsylvania State Medical Society Meeting, 166.
Philadelphia County Society tribute,  187.
      "      Meeting of Physicians of, 129.
      "      Memorial Meeting, 187.
Piepgras,  Dr., remarks of, 291.
Poem by Dr. S. B. Parsons, 241.
Pompili, Dr. Joachim, tribute by, 350.
Post-mortem, account of, 138.
Reminiscences by Dr. C. W. Boyce, 212.
Resolutions adopted by the Boston Physicians, 147.
    "        "       "    British Homoeopathic Congress, 162.
    "        "       "    Canadian  Homoeopathic Institute, 328.
    "        "       "    Cleveland Academy of Medicine, 278.
    "     ,   "       "    Denver Physicians, 283.
    "        "       "    H. M.S. of Northern New York, 160.
    "        "       "    Kansas City Physicians, 261.
    "        "       "    Maryland State Society, 330. 
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Resolutions adopted by the Michigan College of Physicians and Surgeons,
                             162.
    "         "      "    New York State Society, 164.
                     "    Onondaga County Society, 159.
                     "    Pennsylvania State  Society, 168.
   . "         "      "    Philadelphia Physicians, 131.
    "         "      "    University of Michigan, 276. .
    "         "      "    Washington Hom. Med. Society, 312.
    "         "      "    West Jersey Society, 330.
           passed by New York Physicians,  145.
Sanders, Dr. J. C, report by, 278.
Schleswig-Holstein, Meeting in, 314.
Seward, Rev. S. S., Funeral Sermon by,  148.
Smith, Dr. H. M., remarks of, 342.
Spalding, Dr. C. W., address by,  242.
Starritt, Dr. S. P., address by, 294.
St. Louis Memorial Services, 233.
Talbot,  Dr. I. T., remarks of, 346.
Taylor,  Dr. C. W., remarks of, 247.
Thesis, translation of graduation, 228.
Thomas, Dr. A. R., letter from, 140.
Tribute from  Italy, 350.
Valentine,  Dr. Philo G., original verses by, 249.
    "          "      remarks of,' 347.
Walker, Dr. G. S., Oration by, 252.
Washington, Meeting  in, 312.
Wells, Dr.  P. P.,  address by, 164.
Wilmington, Meeting  in, 309.
Wilson, Dr. T. P., remarks of, 267. 
 
 
 
 
 



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