Constantine Hering
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Constantine J. Hering (January 1, 1800 – July 23, 1880) was a physician who was an early pioneer of homeopathy in the United States.
Biography
Hering was born in
He was for a time instructor in
He was one of the pioneers of homeopathy in the United States of America and helped to disseminate homeopathy there. He founded a homeopathic school, the first of its kind in any country. From 1845 until 1869 he filled the chairs of institutes of medicine and materia medica in the
He introduced a number of homeopathic remedies to the
Family
His father was the German composer Carl Gottlieb Hering. His nephew was the physiologist Ewald Hering. One of his sons was Walter E. Hering, the founder of Globe Ticket Company, the oldest ticket company in the United States. Another of his sons was Hermann S. Hering, who, for a time, lectured and conducted research at
Also Carl Hering (1860 – 1926) was one of his sons. Carl was an American engineer involved in studies on electric batteries and electric furnaces. He also made discoveries on electromagnetic force[3] and wrote a book about his father.[4]
Works
He was the author of a number of important homeopathic works, including the 10-volume Guiding Symptoms, which he did not live to complete. He was joint editor of the Medical Correspondent (Allentown, 1835–1836), of the Miscellanies of Homeopathy (Philadelphia, 1839), of the North American Homœopathic Quarterly (New York, 1851–1852), and of the Homœopathic News (1854), and founded and edited the American Journal of Homœopathic Materia Medica. He published many books in both German and English, including:
- Rise and Progress of Homoeopathy (Philadelphia, 1834), which was translated into several languages
- The homoeopathist (1835-1838) (Digital German edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf)
- Condensed Materia Medica (1837)
- Effects of Snake Poison (1837) / Wirkungen des Schlangengiftes . Blumer, Allentaun [Pa.] 1837 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Guiding Symptoms and Analytical Therapeutics
- Domestic Physician (1851)
- American Drug Provings (vol. i., Leipsic, 1853)
Notes
- ^ Winston, Julian, The faces of homeopathy (Tawa, New Zealand: Great Auk Publishing, 1999), 30-34.
- ^ Christian Science Sentinel, Volume 8, Issue 21
- ^ "Carl Hering". ECS. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
- ^ Hering, Carl (1919). Chronology of events concerning the life of Constantine Hering of Philadelphia, Pa., the father of homoeopathy in America. n.p.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ International Plant Names Index. Hering.
References
- Winston, Julian. The Faces of Homeopathy. Tawa: Great Auk Publishing, 1999.
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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