Symptoms
1. Dwarfish, ill-nourished children or childish old people; scrofulous subjects esp. when fat.
2. Mental and bodily weakness; semi-imbecility.
3. Great tendency to glandular swelling and indurations, esp. of tonsils, acute and chronic, also fatty tumours.
4. Patient easily catches cold, esp. in the throat; subject to quinsy.
5. Paralysis and other affections arising from impaired brain function.
6. Degenerative changes in walls of arteries. Atheroma, etc.
7. Diseases peculiar to old men. Prostatic troubles, etc.
8. Offensive foot sweats and ailments (esp. of throat) following suppression; one-sided sweats.
9. Left side mostly affected.
10. Modalities; (<) cold, damp; washing affected parts, (<) when thinking of his disease.
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.
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