Read, approved, and signed, DR. LEHMANN.
On September 18th, a Government report of the 11th September, 1832, was laid before His Serene Highness; the introduction contains the rules drawn up by the Medical Board for the appointing of medical assistants, sub. (a), (b) and (c). On account f the police report on Dr. Lehmann (September 8th, 1832), he was informed that Dr. Lehmann had put before the Board his certificates of the State examinations in the prussian kingdom, of May 30th, 1818, according to which he had passed very well in medicine and surgery, and also had the approval of the Ministry of State dealing with clerical, educational, and medical matters, of the 12th of june of the same year. Therefore should he obtain permission to carry out this plans, it would only be necessary that he should receive strict injunctions to keep his duties within the limit of the rules and laid down in 2 and 3, so as to avoid the unpleasant consequences which he might be forced to face in the case of any infringement of them.
The report now repeats the minutes of Lehmann’s statements, on the length of his sojourn, the acquisition of the rights of a subject, and his ability to live on his own income.
After the Government Report the Sovereign issued the following instructions:
As Dr. Lehmann of Leitzkau, has proved by satisfactory certificates, his efficiency as a physician, and as Hofrath Hahnemann on account of his advanced age may well require an assistant, WE allow him, on his application, to acquire the assistance of Dr. Lehmann, as is stated in No. 2 of this report, for which purpose the latter has been granted permission to reside in this Capital.
HEINRICH
Dornburg, 7th October, 1832.
Therefore Dr. Lehmann was not granted the right of private dispensing.
The conditions under which Dr. Lehmann was permitted to take the post of assistant with Hahnemann, would not satisfy him for long, and therefore Dr. Hahnemann addressed another petition to the Duke, on December 8th, 1832: Ducal Highness, Gracious Lord,
I tender your Ducal Highness my most humble thanks for allowing me to choose Dr. Lehmann as my assistant. Dr. Lehmann having already been familiar with homoeopathic teachings, has by his zeal acquired such perfection under my guidance, that I can already count him among my best pupils.
He has, therefore, already afforded me some help in my overwhelming heavy professional duties. But the crowd of patients, who have been given up by their allopathic physicians as incurable, and come for help from homoeopathic science, from far and near, increased daily; conviction has been awakened among the public that real and lasting cure can only be obtained through the new method or treatment.
I therefore dare to apply once more, humbly but in good faith to your Serene Ducal Highness that you may deign to accord to Dr. Lehmann the same position of free activity, as your much lamented Brother, the unforgettable Duke Ferdinand, graciously conceded to Dr. Mossdorf, my previous medical assistant. Only thus Ducal Highness would find in him, after my death, a pupil educated under my guidance, and a genuine and pure homoeopathic physician for Your capital, otherwise he will shortly return to his country as a homoeopathic physician in Magdeburg, and I shall be left alone in my old age, and have to refuse more than half the patients who seek treatment from me.
Your Serene Highness’ most obedient, SAMUEL HAHNEMANN.
Cothen, December 3rd, 1832.
A Government Report of December 24th 1832, in which the position of Dr. Mossdorf was defined and which concluded with the words; “The Government must in all submissiveness and reverence leave the final decision to the wise judgment of His Serene Highness,” resulted in the following reply:
We will accord permission to Dr., Lehmann to establish himself here as homoeopathic practitioner and as a help to Hofrath Hahnemann, and as such to prepare and privately dispense the remedies required for the treatment of his patients. In all other matters Dr. Lehmann is subject to all the laws of the State, and all Police regulations.
HEINRICH Cothen, January 12th, 1833.
A copy of this reply was sent on January 15th, to Dr. Lehmann, Hofrath Hahnemann, the Ducal Medical Board, and the Ducal Police Office. At the same time appeared in the Official Gazette of Cothen, the following communication:
Dr. Lehmann of Leitzkau has received permission from the High Authorities to establish himself in the Capital, as a medical practitioner and assistant to Hofrath Hahnemann, and in that capacity is permitted to prepare the remedies required for the treatment of his patients, with instructions that otherwise he must observe all the State and Police laws regulations.
C.F. BEHR Cothen, Jan. 15th, 1833.
This matter therefore, occupied the authorities from the beginning of August until the middle of January of the following year.
A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT BY HAHNEMANN.
This decision of the Duke appeared so important to Hahnemann, that he announced it himself by the following public notification, in Schweikert’s “Zeitung der homoeopathischen Heilkunst ” (Vol. 7, 1833, page 188):
The dispensing of Homoeopathic remedies freed form the obsolete privileges of the apothecaries.
In contrast to the notification which was published in the Prussian Staatzeitung, on April 17th of this year, when in order to favour the old privileges of the apothecaries, the homoeopathic physicians were again refused the right to give their remedies privately to their patients, it is a pleasure to make known to our contemporaries the decision of a noble-minded Sovereign, the Duke Heinrich of Anhalt-Cothen, who after becoming convinced of the great advantage of the homoeopathic method over the old medical science, has,, of his own inclination and wisdom, decreed in his own hand-writing, that Dr. Lehmann should be granted the same concessions as Hofrath Hahnemann had obtained from the Duke’s greatly lamented Brother Ferdinand, to prepare and hand his own remedies privately to his patients ( without let or hindrance), which will now be a great blessing for suffering humanity.
SAMUEL HAHNEMANN.
Cothen, April 26, 1833.
SUPPLEMENT 123.
CONCERNING DR. LEHMANN.
Hahnemann to Boenninghausen: Cothen, December 15th, 1832.
I would also like to mention to you, that I and my assistant Dr. Lehmann (who in a Remarkably short time has become a keen and capable homoeopath, after seventeen years of allopath practice) have treated all patients, with incredibly good results, for the last four months, with olfactory medicines only (with more or less prolonged smelling ), and according to circumstances the medicine was repeated every 7,10 or 24 days, or left to produce its effects for several weeks; sometimes it was given alternatively with the next best indicated remedy.
Cothen,
28th, April, 1833.
Through the providence of God I have an excellent assistant in my unbearably heavy yet highly blessed practice, a vigorous Dr. Lehmann, who loves me as a son, and who every day regrets his seventeen years of allopathic misdeeds, lege artis, in nine months he has become changed into such an excellent and true homoeopath, that it is a pleasure to work with him and accomplish much good.
Cothen, 8th, Feby, 1835.
With regard to myself, i try, and I think that at my age no one can blame me for it, to gradually withdraw myself from excessive work, and to live now a little for myself, but I find that it is difficult for me to do so;. for I am constantly besieged by patients. I wish I knew what to do in this matter. However much I endeavour to allot my superfluous work to my true colleague, I rarely succeed; all demand me. In addition there is the practice by correspondence which cannot be relegated to him.
SUPPLEMENT 124
JAHR’S CO-OPERATION.
Already on June 20th, 1830, Hahnemann wrote to Boenninghausen:
The repertory which was announced without my approval is ready, but as I have been on friendly terms with Arnold for twenty years, I cannot look for another publisher and he is not yet able to undertake the publication as he has lost several thousand thalers over the publication of a book which is supposed to be an adjunct to homoeopathy (about which he has unfortunately not consulted me).
Therefore we must exercise patience.
Then later: Cothen, 16th, Jany, 1831.
My repertory was an alphabetical record, which could only be of great service in looking up the necessary symptoms of medicine, if very complete and this perfection is not yet to be found in mine. It is therefore not to be regretted that remains unpublished but in its place I draw your attention to Ruckert’s systematic representation of all the homoeopathic medicines (so far known), which I recommend very much.
I have not yet seen a similar work or Weber’s (although it is dedicated to me and contains a preface by me). Therefore I cannot judge of it, but in any case it cannot surpass Ruckert’s work in usefulness.
Cothen, November 25th, 1833.
A dictionary of symptoms would occupy an efficient and very industrious assistant secretary, uninterruptedly for a whole year sixteen years ago I compiled for myself a dictionary of symptoms or the medicines that had then been proved, and I wrote in a large folio volume. One written now would be twice as large. Dr. Ruckert (who afterwards published his systematic representation) wrote for me, one of antipsoric remedies, when he was in kothen four years ago, after his return from Liefland, in the autumn; I kept him here for that purpose for six months, as he was unable to find employment at once.
Richard Haehl was also an editor and publisher of the homeopathic journal Allgemcine, and other homeopathic publications.
Haehl was responsible for saving many of the valuable artifacts of Samuel Hahnemann and retrieving the 6th edition of the Organon and publishing it in 1921.
Richard Haehl was the author of - Life and Work of Samuel Hahnemann