She now proceeds to swallow the animal, but does not cover it with saliva before the act of swallowing. The saliva runs freely as she swallows. With the aid of her coils, still wrapped about the animals body, she pushes it down her throat. When this is accomplished the huge serpent is helpless and may be carried away. The only possible danger, negroes say, is from receiving a blow from her powerful tail, which they say could kill a man.
Hering was eyewitness to what is here related of the boa- constrictor, which inhabits the jungle about Surinam. He kept a young of the species as a pet. He trained it by feeding it as often as it grew hungry. He sometimes allowed her to wrap herself around his neck; once, he says, she squeezed a little too tight, and sometimes licked his nose mouth, which he did not like.
Ole Bull, Violinist. With Dr. Herings niece, Bertha, I attended a farewell concert given to Ole Bull before his departure for Europe. The aged virtuoso glides on to the stage like a ghost. He has grey hair and wrinkles. He keeps his eyes fixed upon his old brown instrument, from which, with astonishing virtuosity, he draws the most perfect sounds. He favored the audience with our national airs The Star Spangled Banner, Hail Columbia and Yankee Doodle, also Home Sweet Home, with which he made great effect. There is a trifle of the charlatan about him; for instance, a trick of keeping his ear close to the violin, while his bow, with a diamond set in the end of it, is kept moving for some time after the last faint tone has become audible.
May 26, 1869. Liebig. Chemist. Lord Bacon. Hering asks Dr. Neidhard, who is about to sail for Europe, when he goes to Munich and visits Liebig, who is on friendly terms with Neidhards relatives, to tell him that there are three things about Liebig Dr. Hering always speaks of in his lectures to his students.
1 -That Liebig was a school-mate of a certain man who told story to Hering. It happened on examination day at the High School. Each student was asked, by the professor, what occupation he had chosen for his life-work. When the turn came to Liebig, the boy was silent. Well, Liebig, what are you going to be?’ Liebig stood up and said: I am going to be a chemist.’ At first all in the room were silent, then came a burst of loud laughter. 2-Liebig went to Paris to a famous chemist, for whom he offered to make explosives-compounds with gold-the cyanides. The French professor was aghast. So you would risk your life,’ he said to the young man. Yes professor, if you will have a small shack built for me out-of-doors, on the edge of the moat, for experimentation, I will.’ Liebig made the experiments and was successful.
3-Because Liebig had the courage to attack Lord Bacons philosophy.
May 27, 1869. A Benefit for the Hospital. An evening entertainment was given in the home for the benefit of the Homoeopathic Hospital.
Dr. Farrington appeared in a tableau as a simple Dutchman making love. Also as the Veiled Prophet in Lallah Rook. Dr. Rembaugh, with a long beard appeared in the Music Lesson, in which Dad is discovered peeping out from behind the curtain; also as the Magician in the Magic Mirror, and in the last tableau as a Courtier. The costumes were of the richest, from Van Horn, at six dollars a piece. Expenses amounted to half of the proceeds
Doctor Mondschein, a fat German homoeopath, who gives zee little pills and zee mighty potencies, was played deliciously by Will Burnham, a son of the locomotive manufacturer. Miss Barrett, daughter of the Sweden-borgian minister, played the languid lady, Mrs. Backbay, whose husbands says When I turn in, my wife turns out; both in white
Loelkes. Dr.Loelkes, for a short time assistant to Dr. Hering, had come to Newark from Germany, where he had an uncle. He was introduced to Hering as an orphan with only a grandmother, living in Germany. He came recommended: A giant in strength, a child in disposition. Dr. Hering took him on trial, Mrs. Hering playing the motherly part. Loelkes soon fell out with the daughters and in with the office girl. Love is potent. Emma left the house, saying that it was not honest to remain. Courtship had been going on on the sly. Loelkes borrowed money and left for Belleville, Illinois, there to set up a practice. Emma soon followed him and they were married, against the wishes of the uncle, who had intended that his nephew should settle in Newark. Later much trouble came to the family, wife sick, no money, etc.
Dr. Hering thinks it is well for a young doctor to have a wife, as it will aid him in his practice, but he ought not to marry until he can support a wife. Fair.
A physician from Cincinnati brought the news that the Hospital Fair, held in that city, realized about ten thousand dollars.
June 1, 1869. Martin. Gregg. Dr. Martin, Professor of Clinical Medicine at the College and co-editor of the Journal, related to me incidents from his life and his conversion to Homoeopathy. When a boy of sixteen, while rummaging among his fathers things, he discovered some human bones which he articulated and fell in love with the skeleton. He studied it and hung it up in his closet, to the consternation of his boy-companions. He was thought to be an eccentric lad. Some moonlight nights he would go to the graveyard, sit or lie down on a flat tombstone and meditate. When a few years older he visited an allopathic doctor, who took him to the clinics for Eye and Skin diseases. He occupied himself with putting up nauseous prescriptions in his fathers store. Later he came to Buffalo, where he took a position as clerk, and again engaged in reading medical books.
Martin had been reading but a short time when, one day, his uncle came to his office and offered him a position with a certain business firm, dealers in iron, in partnership with two other men. He accepted this offer, began to make money rapidly, and soon had accumulated twenty thousand dollars. Later a hundred thousand was sunk in the same business, a part of which sum he owes to the present day, but does not think himself obligated to pay. He says he entered the business with the intention of doing right, tried to do so, was unfortunate, now does not feel willing, or able, to repay the large sum.
After the failure, which came in 1857, he joined the army as a private, reached the rank of first lieutenant, but had to return home on account of camp fever. While in the army he had occasion to witness many surgical operations. He came under the treatment of an allopathic doctor, but grew worse, and finally sent for a homoeopath, one who was crude in his methods of practice. He failed to recover; his friends urged him to abandon homoeopathy and return to the old school. This he refused to do because return to the old school. This he refused to do because he was stubborn he says, all his life. Dr. Gregg, a prominent homoeopathic physician, in Buffalo, was called, examined the patient minutely, and there being spasmodic symptoms, prescribed Belladonna in the 200th potency. The first dose helped him and he was speedily cured.
From this time Martin was converted to homoeopathy, though not at once to the higher potencies. He afterwards joined Dr. Gregg, as a student, who cured him of a lung-affection thought to be consumption. Dr. Gregg had made many remarkable cures of tuberculous patients. He had remedies for special spots and localities in the lungs and had plates, or pictures made to show his pulmonary regional method of prescribing.
Dr. Martin next attended a course of lectures in an allopathic institution. He was in the habit of talking homoeopathy to the other boys, between hours, and gave medicines to some of them. They asked him many questions.
One day, in the street, he was attacked with cholera morbus, went to a hotel; had vomiting and diarrhoea. When he got home his wife gave him a single dose of Veratrum album. He applied a mustard plaster to his stomach; go well promptly, but ascribed his recovery to the mustard plaster This was before his complete conversion to homoeopathy, which happened before he came to Philadelphia to attend lectures on homoeopathy, to graduate, and finally to be given the chair of Clinical Medicine in the College, and Co-Editor with Hering on the Journal of Homoeopathic Clinics.
Hering. Thomas. Dr. Hering is unwell; suffering from diarrhoea and a cold affecting the larynx. Dr. Thomas is getting better slowly. The abscess is expected to break. A Letter From Hahnemann.
At one time I received a letter from Hahnemann through Dr. Haynel, in Dresden, in whose care it was sent. Haynel was to have married Hahnemanns daughter, Lotta. They were engaged to be married, but the mother, the first Mrs. Hahnemann, objected to the union. Hahnemann called Haynel my son.’. Sunday Dispensary.
My request for permission to keep the College Dispensary, in Filbert Street, open on Sundays was granted. Fair.
Oak wood obtained from the wreckage of the historical Lutheran Church at Fourth and Cherry Streets, has been cut made ready to be used for objects to be sold at the Fair. Two saws have been broken in the process Watson, the College janitor, is going to have extra canes made from the wood, one for Hering and another for Raue. Nomenclature in Botany and Pathology.
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,