Some years later, when the Institute was to meet in New York, a man from the West came to Hering to enlist his influence in making Hempel president of that association. The man mentioned the opposition from Dr. Lippe. Hering said: It was I who gave Lippe the papers and told him to send them.
It was reported, later, when Hempel was in the West, that he had an affair with a divorced woman, which resulted in the birth of twins, that these soon died after being taken to Hempel’s home, with symptoms of Aconite poisoning. Not long after, the mother also died of similar symptoms.
At one time Hempel tried to introduce this woman to Mrs. Hering, which was No go, the doctor says. For which reason, and the sending of the papers, Hempel opposed everything that came from Dr. Hering; even the Lachesis was condemned as being no remedy. an assertion made by Hempel in his Materia medica.
History.
The first inhabitants of Europe were a barbarous race of people which came from Asia. They were followed by the Gauls, also from Asia. These destroyed the barbarians which gave rise to the Epistle to the Galatians. The French are descendants from these. After the Gauls came the Aryans, who came from the Caucesus and from these were the Teutons and other Germanic races. After them came Aryans as also are the Normans. After the Slavs came the Moors, who were opposed by the Catholics, which opposition caused a religious war. Later came the Huns, who settled in Hungary, and many centuries later the Turks, who were scattered by King Charles.
College. The Fair. There is now a great disturbance going on among the members of the Faculty over a disposition to be made of the money realized from the Fair. Professor Morgan came to say that the money must go into an endowment fund for the college, but must be put out at interest, at six per cent, which is contrary to Hering’s ideal, also opposed whom are dissatisfied with Morgan’s attitude, such contention being likely to ruin the Fair. All that the Ladies, who work for the Fair, are interested in is raising as large a sum of money as possible for the purpose of building a hospital, caring little about the form of investment of the capital. In order to bring the quarrel to an end and save the enterprise, Hering, with great determination, says: I will see that my plans are carried out and put through One is here reminded of the attitude of Marcus Pontius Cato, the Roman Senator, of whom Hering says: When his mind was made up, he allowed nothing to stand in the way of accomplishment. When Cato had decided that Carthage must be destroyed he never missed an opportunity to make known his will. When he voted Yea in the forum, he always finished with: And Carthage must be destroyed. If he voted Nay he added. But Carthage must be destroyed. And Carthage was destroyed Cato was a negative man. Our Benjamin Franklin, also a man with a determined will, was a positive man also thrifty, who, when he saw a piece of rag lying on the street, picked it up and said: It cost a deal of work to make it
Hering often says concerning the last drop of wine in the bottle: We must count the drops. There is an ancient saying among people in Germany that every drop of wine costs seven drops of sweat, to grow. So Hering, too, is a positive man who has to fight a great deal with the rest of the faculty.
The Fair. Gause made a misstatement, in a circular concerning the Fair, in which he asks for a hundred thousand dollars to be raised; an amount out of reason and not to be expected.
College. Macfarlan. Dr. Hering is bound to have Macfarlan in the faculty. In this he succeeded against great opposition from some of the members.
Satire. Hering, when an allopath, before coming over to homoeopathy, wrote a skit against Hahnemann, a burlesque. The theatrical manager of the town could not get his company to play it. They were all staunch homoeopaths Hearing says he never told Hahnemann about this.
Theatre Beauty. Hering once saw the famous play, Kaetchen von Heilbronn, played by a very homely girl who won her laurels by her meekness and modesty.
May 9, 1869. Herbariums. Botany. Hering helped his friend Weigel in Surinam to press three thousand plants. The plants were sent to South America from the Academy of Natural Sciences, in Philadelphia, to be assorted and pressed.
Instructions, The plants are first laid carefully upon some sheets of blotting paper. Newspapers will do. Parts of the plant must not touch. A leaf must not touch a stem; slips of paper must be put between, also between the petals of flowers. Lay the sheet of paper containing the plant between two pads of brown, or any common paper, and these upon a board, or a table, with a weight on top. Proceed in this manner until you have a pile of them. Pass a string around the parcel and draw it moderately tight. The important thing is to press the plants gradually. At intervals of a few days the string will bear tightening, while the plants shrink and begin to dry. Should moist plants get mouldy take them out of the paper to dry, and also dry the paper before putting back the plants. Gradual force. The Story of the Tick. Prolapsus Uteri.
Hering’s principle in all mechanical operations is to go to work gradually: which is illustrated by the following story told by Hering:
While still a boy, going into the woods berrying with my sister, she got a tick fastened upon her back. Later she came to me crying, saying: ‘She had a tumor on her back, which hurt, and she did not wish to tell father because he would send for a doctor to whom she would have to expose her body, and she would rather die than consent to this.’ I went to work on the offending insect to pry it loose, but sister said: ‘If you pull off its body, its head will remain in the flesh and I will die’ I took hold of the insect, pressed its body gently, but very gradually, as you might when holding a pen. At first the tick pinched harder, as all living things will do when attacked, but the pressure, applied slowly, unflinchingly, as moves the minute hand on a clock, compelled the insect to let go and my sister was relieved. I had performed my first surgical operation
Mrs. L…. a patient with prolapsus uteri sent for me to give her medical treatment but objected to an examination, thinking that her obstetrician was the one to perform this. When finally persuaded to allow me to make an examination I found the womb low down. I touched the os uteri very gently, but firmly, and exerted very gradual pressure, diverting her attention the while form the operation by conversation, when, all at once, the womb went back into its place and the patient experienced great relief. Eminent medical talent is sometimes unable to succeed in similar cases of wedged-in uteri, which may be quite painful. I prescribed Belladonna, and there was no further trouble. This remedy overcomes spasm of the sphincter muscles in all orifices of the body.
Fish. Taxidermy. The bodies of fishes may be beautifully prepared for preservation in the following manner. Take a perfect specimen, lay the fish upon a board on its side, the best side uppermost; the one you wish to preserve. Cut the under side of the fish, from tail to head, with a sharp knife, remove the body and scrape the skin carefully and rub it with lime, or common wood-ashes, stuff the skin with cotton and sew it into shape..When the fish is dried you can mount it upon a board. If the colours have faded they can be revived by suitable pigments applied with a brush.
St. Peters Cathedral in Rome. Prophecies. The cupola of the world-famous cathedral will fall, and the Cathedral at Cologne, one of whose spires has remained unfinished for a couple of centuries, will soon be completed and at the same time Germany will become united, two problems which in the minds of the people have long been considered improbable, if not impossible of solution. The cupola of St. Peters, as is known, has had a crack, ingeniously mended by heavy bands of iron placed around it. These were heated then allowed to cool, which caused them to shrink and hold tight the damaged structure.
When the writer made a tour of Italy in 1872-3, he visited the Dome of St. Peters in Rome, was given permission to mount to the roof of the immense structure, and found there the iron-band described by Hering, while on the inside of the cupola wee seen men at work, on a scaffold, repairing cracks in the ceiling.
At the same time, when visiting Cologne on the Rhine, he beheld the completed spire pointing aloft, while Germany had become united under Bismarck, as predicted by Hering.
Hering thinks he has inherited a gift for foretelling events, from an ancestor in Saxony, who was known as the Prophet on the Elbe, about whom a book was written under the title of the Man from Prossen, in which is foretold the fortification of the Lilenstein against the invasion of Napoleon’s army, a feat then believed impossible of accomplishment by strategists.
Obelisk. A fallen obelisk in Egypt had to be raised and no one knew how to go about it. A young man who thought he had a plan which would do the job, went to the king and offered to raise the obelisk, or lose his head if failing in the attempt. He made the trial with new ropes made wet, which, by causing a shrinking, gradually lifted the obelisk to its place.
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,