Calvin B Knerr

UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL FROM THE WRITINGS OF CONSTANTINE HERING

Friends it requires the highest order of both physical and moral courage, to risk life calmly in trying to succour others. Witness the heroic act of a man alone in a room, whence all the attendants have fled, with a box he has just opened containing the most venomous serpent, the largest of its species, form whose glands after the most mature deliberation, he is about to extract the deadly poison.

HYOSCYAMUS-A PROVING

After reading the paper on The Jealous Remedies (Recorder, Fourth Quarter, 1934) I am remained of an anecdote Father Hering told of the old couple who became violently jealous of each other, without any cause, and found the reason for it in a collection of specimens of the Hyoscyamus plant put to dry on their porcelain stove (such as is used in Germany). When the Hyoscyamus was removed the jealousy ceased to trouble them.