After my colleague had left me at St. Pauli, I met a soldier of my battalion, a good-hearted Black Forester, who stopped me and asked: “Do you know, sir, what has happened to the Surgeon- General?” I answered in the negative, and was told that the had fallen from his horse. This news did not excite me very much because the soldier told it so quietly, and the incident did not surprise me as military surgeons are usually bad horsemen and the long peace had lessened their skill in riding if they ever possessed any. Griesselich, as I learned later, had forgotten how to ride and only bought a horse shortly before we left for Holstein. Therefore, I enquired very calmly if the Surgeon- General had been hurt. “He must have been,” replied the soldier, “because the horse bolted with him on to the rampart of the city gate, having shied the stirrup and has been dragged along some distance.” “Good God!” I exclaimed. “where is he?” “I have helped to carry him into the Guard-house at the City gate. He was unconscious and bleeding from the ears.”
The soldier conducted me to the City Gate. The unfortunate man was lying there. A few hours before he had been talking to me with his usual freshness, well and happy, and now he was lying on the cough, pale and unconscious, a dying man, with his skull fractured, the first and only sacrifice of this inglorious campaign!
The Staff-Surgeon of the free city of Hamburg arrived immediately after me, if I remember well his name was Fleischmann. He assisted me faithfully, and we conveyed the unfortunate man to the nearest hospital which had been erected by the Freemasons. The commander of our Brigade and his staff arrived soon after. I received orders to watch at Griesselich’s bedside until the next day. He never regained consciousness. He died on August 31st.
DR. GRIESSELICH’S WRITINGS.
Sketches from the Diary of an Itinerant Homoeopath, 1832.
Small Fresco Paintings from the (Arkaden) Archives of Medical Science. Vol. I and II, 1834 and 1835.
Polemic Writings; Homoeopathy in the Shadow of Common Sense (1834, against Dr. Harlin, of Wurtemberg).
The “Sachsenspiegel” (code of the Saxons) (1835 against Dr. Sachs of Konigsberg); the “Sachsenspiegel,” Part II (1835, against Dr. Stieglitz, physician-in-ordinary in Hannover, and others); Hahnemann and Eisenmann (1836 against Eisenmann).
Complete Collection of the Proceedings of the Chamber of Baden and Darmstadt Concerning Homoeopathy, 1834.
Critical Repertory of Homoeopathic Journalism 1835 and 1836; amalgamated with the “Hygea.” Berlin Lectures on Faith and Superstition in Medical Science, 4 numbers, 1838 and 1839; the book appeared in 1840 in a slightly altered complete edition as “Democritus medicus.” Instructions on Health or a Comprehensive Representation or Specific Art of Healing, Complied on the Lines of the History of Its Development, 1848.
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WRITINGS OF G.H.G. JAHR.
The Spirit and Meaning of the Hahnemannian Doctrine of Healing and its Psora Theory.
Manual of the Most Important Indications for the Correct Choice of Homoeopathic Remedies, etc. (by Schaub in Dusseldorf): Called “The middle Jahr”- see Biography.
A detailed Index of Symptoms of Homoeopathic Materia Medica: “The great Jahr.”
Clinical Observations: “The little Jahr.”
Guide to the Practice of Homoeopathy.
The Doctrines and Fundamental Laws of the Complete Theoretical and Practical Homoeopathic Science of Healing.
General and Specific Therapy of the Insane. (Vol. III of Homoeopathic Therapy by Dr. Bahr.) Venereal Diseases.
Rational Doctrine of Health for Every Man.
A Homoeopathic Pharmacopeia, in Collaboration with the Brothers Catellan, in French.
Homoeopathic Treatment of Cholera.
Treatment of Skin Diseases and External Injuries.
Homoeopathic Treatment of the Diseases of Women.
Treatise on Diseases of the Digestive System, etc.
Practical Advice for Beginners in Homoeopathy, Summary of Forty Years’ Practice.
Direction for the Choice of Homoeopathic Remedies.
Substance or Power? or: The Immaterial Condition of Nature.
Dr. Aegidi who in due worse became completely reconciled to Jahr, wrote in 1857 to Dr. Gisevius concerning Jahr’s writings: The reading of Jahr’s work will give you pleasure. He is a homoeopath of the old, sound kind, once my assistant in Dusseldorf and a dear friend A genuine pearl, a work that homoeopathic physicians should not be without, a classical work has just been published by my old friend Dr. Jahr of Paris. It is “The doctrines and fundamental laws of the complete theoretical and practical science of healing.” A work which is in the spirit of true Hahnemannian investigation and was certainly compiled with the aid of the important literary legacy of Hahnemann, which has been accessible to the author in Paris. (In this instance Aegidi was very much deceived, because Madame Melanie Hahnemann guarded the literary legacy of her husband with Jealous care-R.H.) All that has been communicated in this work corresponds with my own ideas. The publication of this work is a great event and will be epoch-making. You certainly will procure it and red it with greatest interest. When I received the book I began to read it immediately and could not leave it until I had reached the end. Then I could not rest until I had written to Jahr and expressed my satisfaction with this distinguished work and told him to my various points of view and divergent ideas. Yet, I presume that an idle criticism will be going to win its spurs, that is from such people who consider Hahnemannian research as something antiquated because now more than ever before a disintegrating spirit is active against homoeopathy, and its star Similia Similibus is in danger of being entirely extinguished.
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Successful Treatment of Erysipelas in the Newly-born. (Struve ‘s Triumph of the Healing Art, Vol. III, Article 19, 1802.) Poisoning by Opiates, on the First Day of Life. Cured, (Ditto, Art. 32.) Elucidation of the Essay in the “Reichsanzeiger” (No. 30, 1804): Something on the Relieving of Difficult Labour, by H.Z. Boenninghausen. “Reichsanzeiger,” 1804, No. 129.
Remarks to Mr. Anna’s Statements Concerning Prof. Froriep’s Phantom of Papier Mache-In “Siebold’s Lucina,” 1806, Vol. III.
Observations on a Hydatidosus with Post-mortem findings; “Loder’s Journal of Surgery, ” 1806, Vol. IV.
Material for a Material Medica-incomplete, 1825.
Numerous Essays in “Stapf’s Archives”-Vol. IV, VI, VII, among them: “Aphoristic Reflections Originated by a Comparison of the Allopathic Procedure with the Homoeopathic one at the Bedside.” Journal of the Homoeopathic Art of Healing for Physicians and Laymen, 1830-1836, published by Schweikert.
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TRINK’S PRINCIPAL WORKS.
De primariis guibusdam medicamentorum viribus recte aestimandis dijudicandisque impedimentis ac difficultatibus. Lipsiae, 1824. Reclam.
Homoeopathy, An Open Letter to Hufeland, Dresden, 1830. Arnold.
Hahnemann’s Services to Medical Science. A lecture. Leipsic, 1843 Schumann.
In Collaboration with C.G.Chr. Hartlaub.
Systematic Representation of the Anti-psoric Remedies. 3 volumes. Dresden and Leipsic, 1829-1830.
Materia Medica Pura. 3 volumes. Leipsic, 1828-1831. Brockhaus.
Annals of the Homoeopathic Clinic. 4 volumes. Leipsic, 1830 1833. Fleischer.
In Collaboration with Noack:
Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica. Vol. I, 1843: Vol. II and Repertory, later revised by Clot. Muller. Leipsic, 1847: Vol. III, 1848. Weigel.
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DR. JOH. JOS. ROTH OF MUNICH WITH HAHNEMANN IN PARIS.
In the legacy of Professor Buchner of Munich, a number of notes by Dr. Roth were found. He visited Hahnemann during a journey to Paris. He writes about his first visit, on August 9th, 1836.
To-day at two o’clock in the afternoon I called upon my highly esteemed Master. On the ground floor of the house which is situation in a very quiet street behind the Luxembourg, was a porter; on the first flight of stairs in a small ante-chamber was a servant in livery, who announced me. I entered a large ante- chamber, and soon after Madame Hahnemann appeared, and she greeted me in a friendly manner and asked me to enter the patients’ room, where I found four patients. I returned to the ante-chamber and waited until one patient had been seen, which took approximately a quarter of an hour. After that Madame Hahnemann conducted me to Hahnemann’s study and I greeted the venerable man, who was very pleased to see me. I told him of my vicissitudes, of my law-suit and its happy ending, of which he knew nothing. I said to him that I owed it to pure homoeopathy, which pleased him very much. He agreed with me that homoeopathy was not much good in Baden, because these gentlemen took things too easily and thought that only young physicians could be successful in homoeopathy since the old ones found in too difficult to tear themselves away from their humdrum routine. Hahnemann looked very well; his wife is very loneliness. He thought that my practice was too large, and that it was almost impossible to accomplish so much. On the desk were several books, various Materia Medica and quarto volumes. He did not think much to the Parisian homoeopaths. They took things too lightly.
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