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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    A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DR. HERING AND AN ACCOUNT OF HIS PROVINGS. CoNSTANTiNE Hering-, M.D., the subject of this sketch, was born in Oschatz, Saxony, on January 1st, 1800. He who was to lend such a helping hand to the inauguration of a new and the true system of medical practice, was born at the opening of the Century which was to witness so great a reform in Medical Science. From his earliest age he exhibited an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and spent many of the leisure hours of his boj^hood in wandering about the country, from hill-top to vale, busily employed in ex- ploring nature's secrets. While attending the Classical School at Zittau, from 1811 to 1817, he made a large and valuable collection of minerals, herbaria, skulls and bones of animals. lie studied medicine at the Surgical Academy of Dresden and the University of Leipzig. While thus employed, he was engaged to publish a work against homoeopathy, which was to be its death-blow. Having occasion to consult some works of Hahnemann at this time, his attention was attracted by some statements which he found there. Deeply impressed by them, he stayed his hand in the demolishing work, and determined to investigate the matter and ascertain for himself its truth or falsity. The result of his research, his firm conviction of the truth of the law of cure as em- bodied in the formula shnilia similibus cmxmtur^ is known to the whole world. With undiminished ardor he kept up his study in this direction, and wrote as his thesis for graduation '• De Medicina Futara^^^ in which he ably and resolutely maintained the doctrines of Hahnemann. On March 23d, 1826, he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine, from the University of Wiirzburg. Shortly after, in the May following, he was appointed instructor in Mathe- matics and the Natural Sciences in an Academy, Blochman's In- stitute, in Dresden. After remaining here for some months he was appointed to go to Surinam under favor of the king, to make researches and collections in Zoology. He consented to do this and sailed for South America. While there he pursued the study of homoeopathy, practiced it to some extent, and wrote some arti- cles for the Homoeopathic Archives. This latter proceeding was brought to the notice of the king in such a way as to cause him to direct Dr. Hering to attend to the duties of his appointment and to ]et outside matters alone. By return mail Hering sent in a report of his accounts in full, and resigning his official position he
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