Wesselhoeft. William and I had but one quarrel. Oh How mad we were He said he owed me a hundred dollars. I said No I owe you a hundred
Later I found my note of hand, but he said, Forget it; and don’t say another word about it’ It was pain. We used to sit up and talk late at night and then lie down on the floor and sleep until morning when we would drink a cup of coffee to the honor of Hahnemann. He wished me to move to Boston, which I could not do because he expected to play second fiddle to me Later, when ill, he wished me to come and see him, which I had to refuse because we then thought differently about certain things. Hahnemann.
When Hahnemann died it affected me dreadfully. Three days after his death I took a ride to Fairmount Park to a place where no one could see me and cried like a child. People thought I would get sick. As a rule things do not affect me deeply at first, but grow and grow until they become almost unbearable; especially things pertaining to Homoeopathy.
Hahnemann always thought to try to explain the Why of things. Here he was in the wrong. Before his death came he had ceased to believe in his theories. He thought more of me than of any of his followers. Called me his John.
Hering had the courage to express himself frankly, both in writing and in speech in opposition to some of Hahnemann’s theories, but was in perfect accord with him on the soundness of his Practical rules, and so remained to the end of his life.
To Dr.Ray Barton from Philadelphia, a friendly allopath, who visited Hahnemann, the latter said in allusion to Hering’s criticisms:- They made me -made me well, I don’t know, made me feel afraid that I was not right; it stopped me, checked, chilled me for a while He then asked, How much has Hering written about this, and how has it been received? Finally he said. Well, no matter
September 20, 1870. Grauvogl. Grauvogl appeared in military trappings, as staff physician, at a medical meeting. He opened the meeting abruptly, in business style, pulled out his watch and disappeared, not to return. Hausmann.
Another great man whose work appeared from the hands of a publisher who also printed an allopathic journal. Homoeopathy is not mentioned in his book. He Quotes Drysdale’s provings but does not refer to the British Quarterly. He evidently thought of making a grand impression upon the Old School.
I devoted a Summer course to lecturing on Hausmann, explaining him to the students as far as I understood him. I wrote and asked him for the titles of books of which he had made use in his studies, but received no reply. Probably because I am a German, and he took sides with the French. Business. At Table.
Question: What is honesty in business? Answer: Honesty in business is where both sides gain proportionately. Diet. Nutrition.
Certain tissues require certain condiments. There remains muscular weakness from all sickness. In such cases a diet of mushrooms will be beneficial. They contain potash and phosphoric acid in a high percentage, which restore muscular tissue. For travellers on foot, rowers, and mountain climbers, they prove a restorative of wasted muscular tissue. Potash restores muscle; Ferrum, the blood globules; Arsenic, the aponeuroses; Rhus tox, the joints; Wine, the brain; Okra, the abdominal organs; Lentils, Beans and Peas, the bones.
Condiments are important; peas require pepper; beans, herbs; beef, onions; and mutton, garlic. Grauvogl.
A remarkable person, and an expert fencer in logic. He says he makes daily use of Hausmann’s book, which means work. I have made an arrangement of the different kinds of pain mentioned in the book. Potencies.
Our potencies are explained by the molecular theory. Molecules are widely spaced and move with more than planetary rapidity. Leprosy.
To my ginger plantation in South America there came a boat bringing a girl from Holland who had leprosy. I was asked to treat her. I was given a horse and carriage and no objections were raised as to my right to practice. After six months I had 200 patients. The ginger farm was forgotten. Indians provided me with all my needs, while I practiced.
Sometime later it was borne in upon me that I needed relief from the tropics; that according to a German saying, Wine needs a winter,’ and I left for Philadelphia Where I was rushed into a practice. Here I saw for the first time the future mother of my son Max and my daughter Odelia, who was washing the marble steps in a small street. I shall never forget how she looked when she turned around and I saw her for the first time. She was blonde with blue eyes and a fair complexion. She had made her home here after coming from abroad with people who had no servant, so she did the housework for them.
October, 15, 1870. To C, Wesselhoeft. Recreation. Rest comes when one engages in amusements that have a mental stimulus.
Satires. Marx. My Introductory address as Professor of Homoeopathy in Strassburg. Shall I send it to Germany? A nation must have a conscience. Marx, that divine fellow (Goettinger Anzeiger) has written in vain. Provings. Jeanes.
Jeanes makes his provings and gets some symptoms. A man with peculiar symptoms comes to him and receives a few drops in a glass of water, then swallows the contents of another glass of water, and the glass is washed. The patient’s old symptoms return. Potentizing.
About grafting of potencies. They act. How or why they do passes our small stock of comprehension. Provings.
He who makes provings of the higher potencies remains in good health, and lives to a ripe old age. Physiology. C.W. makes physiologic gymnastics. Phrenology.
When young I made a collection of animal skulls in reference to this subjects. My friend, the forester, gave me those of rare animals. I helped him with his trout fisheries.
Nov.2, 1870. To Dr. Hills. Someone told me: You will make friends but you cannot keep them; you will make money but cannot keep is.’ So it had been. Scarcely a year has passed without my losing a friend.
Money was spent, as fast as made, for useful purposes; it never accumulated. Bath Houses.
When I came to Philadelphia I wanted a bath house. They laughed at me I had a tent built over the garden hydrant. When I rented another house I carried the tent with me. My friends said, Don’t talk about this; you will be laughed at’ Houses. Graperies.
I call a double house, a plain simple house. Do you call a man double because he has a right side and a left side? In Philadelphia, at the present time, a house will not easily sell, or be rented, unless it has a grapery.
Dietetics.
What does B… know about the subject? Only the observations of physicians can furnish rules for this branch of medicine.
Typhoid Fever. Graperies. A man with typhoid fever might get well alone by sleeping in a grapery. Bedsores.
May be prevented by placing a tub of water under the bed. Spirals. Lightning. Snails.
I was probably the first man in the world to say lightning is in the form of a spiral. One can only observe it when the lightning is opposite to one. Formation of water is the cause of lightning, thunder as well as rain.
All planetary motion appears in a right spiral direction when observed from the outside. The snails I saw in Surinam all turned to the right. I made this observation together with my wife, the mother of John. When I mechanically turned the snails to the left, they, after going on a while, came to a standstill and then again turned right. This gave a flood of new ideas. Guns.
A South American Indian, who for the first time saw a gun fired, said: You men are friends of God who has given you Book, and you can make thunder and lightning.’ He saw the lightning, then the thunder and that something was struck by the gum. I said to the whites, who laughed at the Indian, You are greater fools than he with your ideas of thunder and lightning. You say that the lightning, makes thunder, while both are caused by something else.’ Lightning is electricity caused by condensation of steam into water. Clouds are formed from bubbles of water, in immense numbers, forming a large surface. The drops bring electricity and ozone down with them. The vacuum which is left by condensation is rapidly filled with air which causes the report. Soap bubbles will rise, but fall as soon as they burst. Platina.
When I first read the provings of Platina (by Stapf) when a student, I felt like Balboa when he discovered the Pacific Ocean. It is now nearly fifty years ago. Materia medica will now become a science, I said. Palladium stands nearest Platina. I saw clearly that a new period had arrived with Hahnemann.
Hering speaks of Doebereiner, and the Preface dedicated to Stapf.
Nov.3, 1870. To Dr. Hills. Paracelsus. That mean, malicious, shocking, horrible, awful scamp who slandered Paracelsus There is nothing I despise more, in a physician, than the keeping of a remedy secret. If F. had killed his children and eaten them, he would not have done so great a crime as to make a secret of his discovery. A man who keeps a secret of what might benefit the race is infamous. Domestic Practice. Home Remedies. Domestic Physician.
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,