A child of five years had one hundred and fifty stools in one night; stools resembled chewed cherries; gave Cantharides from one of Hahnemann’s pocket cases; the globules were yellowed with age. In five minutes the trouble was stopped.
Aegidi says that Burkhard maintains that medicated globules improve with age, and that alcoholic preparations degenerate. I always use globules, believing the alcohol to be injurious. I gave a single dose, to be dissolved in water, and taken night and morning for three days, to be followed by powders of sugar of milk. With certain temperaments homoeopathic remedies, high or low, will not take effect. Cases of Paralysis from spinal irritation were helped remarkably by Plumbum and by Aesculus hippocastanum.
Aegidi says of Hering’s conversion: A Saul who was converted into a Paul.
He continues: Hering is the greatest authority. Boenninghausen comes next. Boenninghausen came from France; was consumptive and was converted to homoeopathy by Dr. Weihe.
Aegidi has a box of medicines from Jenichen, and a pen from Hahnemann. He made a visit to Madame Hahnemann. We talked of Grauvogl who is in Gastein, of Hausmann, and Aegidi’s daughter- in-law, wife of his son, who is private secretary to Bismarck. There were wonderful trees from South America, about Aegidi’s home and a pavilion, in marble, dedicated to Apollo. He suffers from gout. Regrets that he has no son-in-law to be a physician. All his effects are to be burned. Spoke of Rubidium. Calls Kafka a dog
After luncheon and coffee, I left for Berlin, on the 3 o’clock train. Later I spent some happy hours with the son, Secretary Aegidi and his charming wife, in Berlin. I met there, at dinner, a daughter of Goethe’s Bettina, an old Portuguese countess.
Aegidi is 78 years old. In a letter to Dr. Hering he wrote: A hundred thousand thanks for Dr. Knerr. The son was wounded in the Franco-Prussian war, where he suffered the loss of his toes. Aegidi thinks that music, a divine art, has but few votaries excepting among the frivolous and gay. The Declaration of Independence. An Oratorio.
Since 1776 the Declaration of Independence has been read, publicly, every year, on the anniversary of the day on which it was signed. On its centenary anniversary it will be read once more, audibly, solemnly with appropriate ceremonies. This will be done, not alone here, in this great country grown to a world power, but in all parts of the earth where Americans are to be found, and in all places where there is love for liberty and independence.
On all occasions where the heart overflows and seeks utterance there is no better medium than song. Music is the language of the heart and the emotions. To give full expression to the sentiments of the people, at the coming Jubilee of this great nation, instruments and voices should combine in giving expression to harmonies inspired by love for God and country. This could not be done more effectively than through the medium of an oratorio, the text of which would closely follow and embrace words from the Declaration of Independence, which would further be ennobled by the music from the soul of an inspired composer in this great land.
The creation of a musical work, in the form of an oratorio, with which to celebrate fitly this great national event has been in my mind for many years. There can be no doubt that a work of this kind would receive applause and approbation from people throughout the country. Imagine the suspense in audience would await the performance of a stirring festival overture, from a full orchestra, under the leadership of a great director, to be followed by the combined voices of a well-trained massed chorus of men and women, giving utterance to the inspired words of the text in sounds rushing along like mighty waters. Imagine the forceful recitatives, the trios and quartettes sustained by an accompaniment from a well-trained orchestra, its volume gradually increasing, finally rising to an overpowering height of musical expression, ending in a burst of glory accompanied by waving of flags. Would not this stir an audience to an amazing pitch of excitement and admiration, seldom witnessed even under the influence of the highest patriotic fervor?
Synopsis of the Oratorio. Overture. Pilgrim fathers. Early settlers. Disturbances. Dissatisfaction. Mutterings. Resolve.
Introduction. When in the course of human events, etc. Quartette.
And to assume, etc. Crescendo.
Laws of nature and of nature’s God. Climax.
Part First
We hold these truths. Recitative.
That all men are created equal, That men are endowed with inalienable rights,
Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Deriving their power from the consent of the governed.
Repeated in Chorus
From prudence in deed, to tyranny over these states,
Chorus in Crescendo, continually growing like the Song of Tell composed by Karl Hering.
Part Second. Recitative.
1. To prove this, etc. We have, he has, 13 times. Flowed by a storm of indignation. Sound of Kettle-drums and oboes. Forte, Fortissimo, Grave.
2. He has abdicated,
He has plundered,
He is at this time,
He has crushed,
He has excited, A women’s chorus, for a beginning. In every stage, etc., Impressive trio. A Male chorus joins.
Part Third.
Nor have we. We have Alternating chorus. Dolce. We must therefore, etc. Great resolution. Full chorus-Enemies in War, Friends in Peace. We pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honour. Augmented Chorus in Brilliant Style. Finish.
Thoughts on Religion. The beginning of wisdom is the realization of God who is without end. God being infinite the realization of Him must be so likewise.
God is eternal, therefore, true wisdom must be eternal and all science a state of growth. All things come from God and through Him; they have their origin and continuance in Him. God is the primary cause and the Allium the source and promoter of all things.
The order of the Universe and the things in it, their progress under constant change, is governed by laws which have their foundation in God, are harmonious, concordant, analogous and inherently alike.
We believe in God because we know that He is; this knowledge is in every human being. He who says he cannot believe, lies because he does not wish to believe, thereby putting himself beyond the pale, his mind unhinged, distorted, his thoughts twisted and his judgment warped.
He who wishes to prove a God is foolish for he is without logic. He might as well deny the principles of mathematics and the axioms upon which this is founded. Denial declares him to be a traitor to human intelligence, to so-called philosophic reasoning.
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,