Celebration of the semi-centennial anniversary of the graduation in medicine of Constantine Hering, M.D.

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[1876]
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Credit: Celebration of the semi-centennial anniversary of the graduation in medicine of Constantine Hering, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Resolved, That these resolutions be signed by the President and Secretary of the Academy, and a copy of the same be presented to Dr. Hering upon the occa- sion above indicated. Rooms of the Hahnemann Academy, New York, March ^2d, 187G. ALFRED K. HILLS, M.D., President. CLARA C. PLIMPTON, M.D., Secretary. Presentation of Diplomas. Dr. John F, Gray, of ]^ew York, then addressed Dr. Hering as follows: Venerable Colleague:—The Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York, at its annual meeting in February 1875, made provision, by unanimous vote, for an act of homage to 3'^ou on their part, to be fulfilled on this your Academic Jubilee. This act legally expresses the sentiment and will toward you of all of the regular physicians of our school in that State. The President and Secretary of the Society, in accordance with your wish (by which I am deeply honored and gratified) have made me its delegate to your household; and thus I have the happiness to greet you, in the name of every member of our branch of the profession in my native State, and to con- gratulate you, your family and your personal disciples, the world over, on the coming of this your semi-centennial day, in circumstances of unsullied joy to us all! This glad hour finds you in vigor of body and mind, in domestic felicity and in the full exercise of your beneficent art! For these blessings, which are not of human concession, we reverently thank the Divine Source and Giver of all things. In compliance with the vote of the State Medical Society, the Senate of the University of the State of New York is this morning assembled at the Capitol in Albany, and, as I am instructed by a telegram from its Secretary, just now delivered, it has within this hour decreed and executed the honorary diploma of Doctor of Medicine, for your acceptance. Moreover I am glad to congratulate you on your being the first physician on whom a jubilee degree has been con- ferred in the New World. Let us hope that this kindly and useful academic usage, now transplanted to American soil, may strike deep root here and abide with our successors forever. Besides this purely Academic Doctorate from New York, like honors are placed in my hands for your acceptance from the University of Boston, by its faculty of Medicine, and from the Homoeopathic Medical Colleges of New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis. This gratifying ofiice has doubtless been bestowed upon me, dear old friend, because I happen to be the last American Survivor of that small band of pioneers in Homoeopathy whom you found at work here on your auspicious arrival in our country. I discharge it with gladness on my own account, for our long intercourse has been to me a perpetual felicity, and with reverent emotion in behalf also of our departed companions Gram, Hull, Channing and Wilson, who warmly welcomed your coming to our battle front, forty-three years ago. Learned and worthy leader, your affectionate juniors are here to justify, by their united personal testimony and by the academic documents we now lay before you, the trusts committed to you at Wurzburg, on the 23d of March,
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