THE REVEREND T.R. EVEREST.
Thomas R. Everest, Rector of Wickwar in Gloucestershire, was also a zealous homoeopath, and a promoter of this science in England. In the year 1851 he published a sermon which had been delivered in favour of the Hahnemann hospital of London.
He wrote to Hahnemann:
Wickwar, 1st May, 1834.
Illusions Sir,
I beg your acceptance of an unworthy performance, and I ought to apologise for so doing. Sir, I send it you merely as a testimony that you have admirers even in this country. To be an apostle of Truth is to court persecution-that however you know well enough without any necessity for my reminding you that History will preach to you the same doctrine. But at last, Sir, Light struggles through even chaos, nor will the next generation linger on in that impenetrable ignorance of medicine in which we have so long groped in vain.
It is my intention if possible to visit Kothen in the Summer. I will not, if I can help it, leave this world being able to leave to my family as their proudest boast that their father had conversed with the best Benefactor the world ever knew.
I am, Sir, With the highest admiration and respect, Your humble servant.
THOS. R. EVEREST.
Paris, 30th March, 1838.
Illustrious Sir,
The conversation I had yesterday with Madame Hahnemann an the reason she assigned for your not received any fees from me, viz., that you regarded me as one of your friends, have deeply affected me. Let me say at once, that whatever reluctance I might otherwise have felt tot give you so much labour and trouble as you take for me, is at once overcome when I learn that it is because you honour me with the title of your friend that you decline to receive remuneration.
You have for some time known the opinion I held of you I judged you by your writings alone. But you do not perhaps know how, since I have been personally acquainted with you, my respect has depended into veneration, and my esteem been kindled into the warmest attachment and affection. You will easily judge, Sir, what I feel when I am assured of your friendship.
To a mind like yours I cannot wish to pay the idle tribute of thanks and compliments. I am aware what kind of person the friend of Hahnemann ought to be-and if by your kind and persevering labour I am eventually restored to health (as I believed I shall be) I will endeavour not to disgrace the title you have given me.
I cannot conclude this short note without begging you to present to Madame Hahnemann my sincerest thanks for kindness she has showed me ever since I have had the pleasure of knowing her. My God grant you both a long life for the comfort of each other, and for the side of the world.
I remain, Sir, With the sincerest respect, Your very obedient servant.
THOS. R. EVEREST.
The Reverend Everest died on the 15th June, 1855.
SUPPLEMENT 270 CONSTANTINE HERING, THE FATHER OF HOMOEOPATHY IN AMERICA, Hahnemann to C. Hering:
Kothen, 31st December, 1824.
As you wish to take you medical examination next Spring. I would beg of you and advise you not to let the Leipsic allopaths know of our homoeopathic views; least of all that worst of all allopaths, Clarus, if you do not wish that he should annoy you terrible at your examination, or perhaps reject you altogether. But when once you have obtained your degree and have taken your place i n your future profession, then be no longer afraid of the obstacles which the Apothecaries Guild will be capable of practising the Divine science faithfully and with enthusiasm.
Dr. Aegidi of Dr. Gisevius (1857) concerning Constantine Hering. (“Berlin homoop. Zeitschriff,” 1911, vol. 30, page 219.)
I read with pleasure the American provings of medicines by C. Hering; these model provings (which in diligence and circumspection remind one of Hahnemann) I perused for relaxation. The American provings of medicines contain a great store of extremely well proved remedies, and I would like to kick myself for having purposely neglected for so long the perusal of them. From now onwards I shall not miss a single number. I have made up my mind to investigate now more fully the original sources.
INDEX OF ESSAYS AND WORKS OF HAHNEMANN
(I) TRANSLATIONS AND REVISIONS.
1777. NUGENT. Experiment of Hydrophobia. Leipsic. J.G. Muller. From the English. 150 pages.
STEDTMANN. Physiological Experiments and Observations with copper Leipsic. J.G. Muller. From the English. 134 pages.
FALCONER. Experiments with mineral Wares and Warm Baths. Leipsic, by Hilscher. From the English. 2 parts, 355 and 439 pages.
BALL. Newer Art of Healing. Leipsic, 1777 and 1780, with annotations under the name of Spohr. From the English.
1784. DEMACHY. Laboratory Chemist on the Preparation of Chemicals of for Manufacture as for Art. Leipsic, by Crusius. 2 vols. 302 a nd 396 pages. From the French, with supplements and copper plates. (2nd edition 1801)
1785. DEMACHY. Art of Distilling Liquor, Leipsic. 2 parts. From the French with additions, 332 and 284 pages.
1787. DEMACHY. The Art of the Manufacture of Vinegar. Leipsic, by Crusius. From the French, with additions, and one supplement. 276 pages.
B.V.D. SANDE, Chemist in Brussels, and Hahnemann. Signs of the Purity and Adulteration of Drugs. Dresden, by Walther. 350 pages.
1789. Translation of the Story of Abelard and Heloise. From the English. Leipsic. 638 pages.
1790. RYAN, Enquiry into the Nature and Cure of Phthisis. Leipsic, by Weygand. From the English. 164 pages.
FABBRONI, The Art of Making Wine, in Accordance with Sensible Principles. Leipsic. From the Italian, with additions. 278 pages.
ARTH. YOUNG. Annals of Agriculture. Leipsic, by Crusius. 2 vols. From the English. 290 and 313 pages.
CULLEN. A Treatise on Materia Medica. Leipsic. Schwickert. 2 vols. From the English, with annotations. 468 and 672 pages.
1791. GRIGG. Precautionary Measures for the Female Sex. Leipsic. Weygand. From the English. 285 pages.
MONRO. Materia Medica. Leipsic, by Beer. 2 vols. From the English, with annotations. 480 and 472 pages. (2nd edition. 1794.)
DE LA METHERIE. On Pure Air and Different Kinds of Air. Leipsic, by Crusius, 2 vols. 450 and 498 pages.
RIGBY. Chemical Observations on Sugar, Dresden, by C.C. Richter. From the English, with annotations. 82 pages.
1796. J.J.ROUSSEAU, on the education of infants. Handbook for Mothers. 2nd edition. 1804.
1797. TAPLIN, Equerry, or Modern Veterinary Medicine. Part I, Leipsic. 387 pages. Part 2. 1798, 304 pages.
1797. TAPLIN. Equerry, or modern Veterinary Medicine. Part I, Leipsic. 387 pages. Part 2. 1798, 304 pages.
New Edinburgh Dispensatory. Leipsic by G. Flashier, Junr., with 3 copper plates. Part 1, 583 pages, with annotations. Part 2, 1798, 628 pages.
1800. Thesaurus medicaminum. Leipsic by G. Fleischer, Junr. From the English. 412 pages, with a preface by the translator and annotations by Hahnemann, under the letter Y.
HOME. Practical Observations on the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra by Caustics. Leipsic, by G. Fleischer, Junr. From the English, with annotations. 147 pages.
(2) OWN WORKS AND ESSAYS.
1779. Dissertatio inaugur. medic. Conspectus adfectum spasmodicorum actiologicus et therapeuticus. Erlangen. 20 pages.
1782. Small Essays in Medical Observations by Krebs. Quedlingburg, 1782. pamphlet 2.
1784. Directions for Curing Old Sores and Ulcers. Leipsic, by Crusius. 192 pages.
1786. On Poisoning by Arsenic: its Treatment and Forensic Detection. Leipsic. Lebrecht Crusius. 276 pages.
1787. Prejudice against Heating with Coal, and Ways of Improving his Fuel, &-c., with two copper plates. Dresden. Walther. 72 and 39 pages. (Last translations.)
Relating to the difficulties in the preparation of Mineral Alkaline Salt by means of Potash and Kitchen Salt. Crells’s Chem. Annals II. Partz, pages 387-396.
1788. The Influence of Certain Gasses in the Fermentation of Wines. Crell’s Chem. Annals, I. Part 2, pages 141-142.
1788. On the Wine Test for Iron and Lead. Ditto. Vol. I, Part 4 pages 291-306.
Concerning Bile and Gall-Stones. Ditto. Vol. II, Part 10, pages 296-299.
An Unusually Strong Remedy for Checking Putrefaction. Ditto. Vol. II, Part 12, pages 485-846. (Translated into French by Cruet.)
1789. Instruction, for surgeons on Venereal Diseases. Leipsic, by Crusius, XIV, and 292 pages.
Unsuccessful Experiments with Some New Discoveries. Ditto. Vol. I, part 3, pages 202-207.
A letter to Crell concerning Sulphate of Baryta. Ditto. Vol. III. Part 8, pages 143-144.
Discovery of a New Constituent in Plumbago. Ditto. Vol. II, Part 10, pages 291-298.
Observations on the Astringent Properties of Plants. Contribution to the Chem. Annals, Vol. IV, Part 4, pages 419-420.
1790. A Method to Check Salivation and the Destructive Effects of Mercury. J. Fr. Blumenbachs Medic. Library Vol. III, pages 543-548.
Minor Essays on various subjects. Crell’s Annals. Vol. I, Part 3, pages 256-257.
Complete Directions for the preparation of Mercurius Solubilis. Ditto. Vol. II, Part I, pages 22-28.
1791. Insolubility of Some Metals and their Oxides Caustic Ammonia. Ditto. Vol. II, Part 8, pages 117-123.
1792. Contributions to the Wine Test. Scherf’s contributions to the Archiv. of the Medorrhinum Police. Leipsic. Vol. III.
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