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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    twelve proviiigs of more or less importance. Of these remedies Glonoine is becoming of more and more importance every year. The provings of the Virus apium comprised also the full natural history of the insect; the provings of the l^ew York Society, aug- mented by a large number of new provings with the pure poison, the observations of Rev^. Longstreth, which are of the highest im- portance, and as many cases of the eiiects following the sting as could be obtained by daily labor within the course of a year. The reports of symptoms following the sting, and what symptoms had been cured, have settled one of the most important scientific ques- tions, viz.: Can the symjotoms from inoculation with animal poisons^ the zymotic symptoms^ be used in our Materia Medica, alongside of the symptoms observed from our alcoholic preparations taken inwardly. The greatest of all critical objections, never made by any critic, but in the mind of the prover of Lachesis, since 1828, has been an- swered affirmatively and to his full satisfaction. The book further contained translations of the provings of Benzoic acid by Jeanes, and the Oxalic acid by ]^eidhard, both indispensable in heart-disease ; Joslin's masterly proving of Rumex CRISPUS in translation; the Allentown proving of Kalmia; a com- pleted proving of Millefolium, and one of Jatropha curcas ; new provings of the old polychrests Cepa and Aloes, the latter for the first time proved with the genuine Aloes soccotrina, brought here by the physician on the man-of-war sent by the United States to the Sultan of Muscat; the animal substances, the old and famous Hippomanes equorum, and the blue blood of the Simulus cyclops or the Xiphosura americana, in which a careful analysis had shown copper as a constituent of the blood, and but a trace of iron. The publisher, provided he got a second part like the first, with- out remuneration, sent postage free, was willing to publish a second volume, but he died suddenly and his heirs did not ask for a con- tinuation. Lithium has been proved since, and Arsenic in the metallic state, particularly in the hydrogen combination, in 1851 the Arseniate of lime, the Beryllium, the Calc. sulphurica and the Mercur. sulph., together with additional provings of Arg. nit., Baryta and Kux moschata. The proving of Formica was an attempt to get something similar to the Apium virus, but it has not yet been used sufficiently to gain the importance of a poly- chrest. With a change of the genius epidemicus, it may become of more importance. The possibility of a scientific Materia Medica
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