Hahnemann’s Second Marriage



I would advise you not to undertake any dissections on the bodies of allopathic patients in order to obtain pathological preparations, as these would only show the results of incorrect medical treatment. the dissection of bodies of persons who died from natural diseases without much medical treatment is the only one which can be instructive.

The students’ time should not be too much wasted by the study of anatomical details, a nd the study of botany and chemistry ought not to be carried to far. Sit mods in rebus! the opinions of Schonlein, which as I observe from you leaves are excellent, could be utilized to advantage in your Academy as you think so much of them (they are unknown to me). You need not be afraid of english competition; there is so far no English translation of the most important homoeopathic works. What works, therefore, could they show to your students?

I am sorry I have received only your first letter. Our Good God is sure to bless your great undertaking. I know that!

May you continue to enjoy good health for the sake of humanity, and may your dear family also be favoured by good fortune. I and my dear wife send you our kindest regards, and please remember me to all you co-workers.

SAMUEL HAHNEMANN.

Paris, Rue de Milan.

October 3rd, 1836.

A further letter to Hering:

Dear Friend,

How are you and your two dear boys. I hope I may receive very good news from you. I would like to know if you have become more familiar with our homoeopathic practice which of curse is very laborious.

I and my dear wife, together cure a strikingly large number of patients; she cures in the late hours of the day, may poor patients, and to my supers some of the worst blind of diseases.

I receive patients of all ranks, even the highest in our consulting room, and this chiefly in the evening, because I hold consultations from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon. We dine at five. We are besieged with patients even in he summer, when so many families go into the country. Many so- called homoeopaths have sprung up during my sojourn here (six years); but there are very few really good ones. Those are more easily found in the Provincial towns.

If I have been correctly informed., flour Academy grants diplomas to good homoeopaths. It that is so, you would confer a favour upon me if you would send one to my dear wife, Marie Melanie Hahnemann, need’ Hervilly, for she is better acquainted with homoeopathy, both theoretically and practically, that any of my followers, and I may say lives for our art.

The two little cameos will give you a fairly correct representation of my head the copper-plate engraving on the whole is a good likeness, only the artist has taken me in an unfortunate moment when I was probably vexed by the bad behaviour of the bastard homoeopaths of Germany; there is no trace in it of he kind-heartedness seen in my features.

Kind regards, SAMUEL HAHNEMANN.

March 18th, 1841

ANOTHER REMINDER OF THE REQUEST FOR THE DIPLOMA FOR MELANIE

Dear friend and colleague, As President of the Academy of Allentown I have asked you fir you for a doctor’s diploma of homoeopathy for my dear wife, and you have replied that the Academy would consider it an honour to grant it. but time is passing and I have not yet received a diploma for her. I therefore renew my request to-day and add the reasons why i must urgently insist upon it.

Before our union my wife was a renowned painter and poetess, the author of works which conferred a high rank upon her. After out marriage she showed much admiration for our system of therapeutics, and I took great pains to teach her because I could for see how helpful she could become to me, and how much she would be able to contribute for the propagation of our art. For this purpose she was forced to give up all attractions and pleasures which had previously enriched her life. Think of it! She left this paradise in order to follow me into the value of sorrows where patients are. to listen to there complaints, to bring help and with me eight against evil men and their harmful methods of treatment. She also brought this sacrifice, that she renounced all artistic fame which she had acquired by hard work-a tremendous sacrifice, which she even now, at times, regrets when looking back, in spite of other fame, and I cannot quite blame her for it.

My conscience therefore urges me to offer a substitute for all this. She has already tested 6,000 poor patients, without my help, with such courage and skill that it made her confident of success. She can now treat as well as well as I can.

This is the reason why I desire this diploma for her. Time passes quickly and I would like to procure for her this title, all the more through you, because you have done so much for homoeopathy.

I would immediately refund by a cheque the expenses connected with the diploma and also the honorarium of those active in it.

I have endeavored, during the last nine years, to perfect my :’Organon,” and the sixth edition in its new form will soon appear.

(According to a copy of a letter undated, probably of the year 1842.) SUPPLEMENT 174

HERING’S LETTER TO HAHNEMANN

In the introduction Hering points out that he has already written to Hahnemann, several times but this time it was from “necessity to seek advice and support for a very important step he wished to take.”-it was to to to London. The reasons for this Hering explains in the following words:

Philadelphia, April 10th, 1838

I have distributed in Allentown several important works; I have hand eleven pupils, four of whom have advanced so far that they now life and work as true Homoeopaths will successful practices; three more are still learning under other physicians but the remainder were prevented from continuing their study. I have at the same time been able to influence advantageously many physicians return to Philadelphia to again put in order try own financial affairs, which had become disorganized by losses. Dr. Wesselhoft takes my place and I hope that sometimes I may be able to continue to work with him, but for this I must have a little more capital. The Americans pay their physicians very badly, so that even with a large practice and most strenuous activity it is hardly possible to make one thousand thalers a year. This makes it more difficult for a homoeopath who desire to uphold homoeopathy, as many American physicians now declare themselves in favour of the system as far as it will carry them with repertoires, yet if the public wishes it at their request they will use allopathy and will call this the true middle road. On the other hand much harm is done to homoeopathy by quacks. This will happen in a similar way in other places and can be overcome by facts, that is, by cures, but what takes away a physician’s pleasure is the way in which they are in the habit of paying him. Since 1837 i have made more than 8,000 visits, and dispensed approximately 15,000 powders, for this I have barely received one thousand Rthl. Ye almost every day I enter in my book fifteen to twenty Rthl. (yet the actual income for a week is barely five Rthl., whilst for necessary expenses I need at least twenty Rthl. in cash) and i hardly dare expect to receive during the following year 2,000 Rthl., for payment of accounts due, this has decided me to make arrangements to go to London I dare not let this be known here, because it would cause too much harm to my practice. I also would like your advice on that account; the journey even depends entirely upon your support. In Eland recommendations are indispensable. I would ask you, therefore, to help me with letters of recommendation if you approve of this step. Homoeopathy does not need me here any longer. In would ask you, therefore, to help me wit letters of recommendation if you approve of this step. Homoeopathy does not need me here any longer. In Philadelphia there are fifteen, in New work seven, in Baltimore four homoeopathic physicians, in addition to that, about sixty in other places. Now it will progress by itself, especially as the majority of the homoeopaths in the in. he country belong to the better classes.

With deepest esteem, and proud to be your pupil.

CONSTANTINE HERING.

SUPPLEMENT 175

HAHNEMANN TO BOENNINGHAUSEN ON OPPOSITION IN FRANCE.

Paris, January 5th, 1838.

For many reasons I thought, in the beginning, that the beginning that the foundation of a hospital for homoeopathy would have easily been accomplished here, but I gradually acquired the conviction that this would not be the case. Before my time the so-called homoeopaths her have done so much harm to our system which has the power, replied to the Minister who made enquiries about the foundation of a homoeopathic hospital, that there was nothing in homoeopathy.

Some of the better pupils in the Provinces firmly replied to this with brochures, but the old body of medicine remained silent, and the voices of he former faded into nothings; the minister would not or couldn’t achieve anything, especially as the Kind himself is to be numbered among the staunch allopathies, a nd always carries about with him the blood-letting nozzle when in. he country, and if his personal has a sudden attack he will perform venesection himself.

Richard Haehl
Richard M Haehl 1873 - 1932 MD, a German orthodox physician from Stuttgart and Kirchheim who converted to homeopathy, travelled to America to study homeopathy at the Hahnemann College of Philadelphia, to become the biographer of Samuel Hahnemann, and the Secretary of the German Homeopathic Society, the Hahnemannia.

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