Dr. P.G.Valentine, of St.Louis, then said: It seems that what has been spoken of Dr.Hering this morning has been mostly of the nature of personal reminiscences of him. I think that but once it was my pleasure to meet him, and that was when attending the Centennial meeting in Philadelphia. As he entered the door, and passed down the aisle he was cheered by all the members present. He came upon the stand took his seat by the other there; the English gentlemen, etc.
But my acquaintance with Dr.Hering was entirely through the materia Medica. I wish to say that through that work I have learned to admire and to venerate him. The question with us, in St.Louis, when any point in Materia Medica is raised, is, what does Dr.Hering say?
I have no other personal recollections of him. The only way I learned to love him was through the Materia Medica.
Dr.M.M.Eaton of Cincinnati, said: It has not been my privilege to have had a personal acquaintance with Dr.Hering, and I can only say that I feel that one of our greatest men has passed away. I feel that he has left a record behind him worthy of emulation, and it struck me that we should profit by the example which has been set, that we should each endeavor to do something to add to the store-house of knowledge for those who may come after. It strikes me that upon occasions of this kind we should make such resolves as to out future course as may benefit mankind.
Dr. Wm. von Gottschalk, of Providence, said: I wish to speak a few words of Dr.Hering as a German. As there are no German present to speak about him, or in his memory. I think it finally to be my duty, after so many different Americans have spoken in praise of that most peculiar man, to give my tribute to his character, in a different way.
I first saw Dr. Hering in 1852, when I was an school practitioner in the city of new York. I was then induced to try Homoeopathy. I still looked upon Homoeopathy as a peculiar quackery, and I wanted to see the greatest quack of them all. Dr. Hering being a countryman of mine struck me peculiarly as I visited him. He encouraged me in Homoeopathy more than any other man I had ever met, and probably he was the sole cause of my becoming a complete homoeopath to whom I owe my position in Homoeopathy today.
What I wish to allude to now, in particular, are his distinguishing German characteristics. As a scholar he was a through German. This I knew at the moment in which I entered his house, in 1876, when he called me by name. He called me the Yankee. Dutchman, and asked me to sit down and take a glass of wine with him. Then, in response to his request, I went with him to his garden back of the house where, in a small arbor, was spread a table for his family, and here we sat down for a friendly chat. On the table were familiar German dishes, and the hospitality of a German was extended. It was a delight to be there and to receive the hospitality of this man. He was a true German, in all his habits to the very last moments of his life. I wish that an abler man, better qualified in the use of the English language, were here to pay a more proper tribute to him in this regard. Other Germans mostly become Americanized. Hering always adhered to the ways of the Fatherland, a thing which I have not done. But I respect him for this peculiar characteristic, that in all of his life he remained, as he was born-a German.
In 1878 and 1879 he published 2 editions of his book, Sunstroke and Its Homeopathic Treatment.
Upon Hering's death in 1880 Knerr became responsible for the completion of the 10-volume Guiding Symptoms.
Dr. Knerr wrote 2-volume Repertory to the Guiding Symptoms,