Constantine Hering

Constantine Hering ( born January 1, 1800 Oschatz, Electorate of Saxony, † July 23, 1880 in Philadelphia, United States) was a German - American doctor. He was one of thirteen children of his parents, Carl Gottlieb Hering and Christiane Friderike and is considered the founder of homeopathy in America.

Career

He began his medical studies in Leipzig, 1826, he received his doctorate in Würzburg with the work De Medicina Futura ( The medicine of the future). Herring received as a student commissioned to write a treatise on the "wrong track " of homeopathy. After he had dealt with the matter for two years, he finally became enthusiastic advocates of the healing method. After graduating, he began to travel, joined an expedition to South America and stayed from 1827 to 1833 in Suriname on. He was physician to the governor, oversaw a hospital and a leper colony and led drug tests, most famously including the examination of the venom of the snake Lachesis muta ( after the goddess Lachesis; published in Stapf 's Archive ). After a short stay in the home he traveled in 1833 to the United States to Philadelphia and continued intermittently there. He was involved in the founding of the American Institute of Homoeopathy (1844 ), of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania (1848 ) and the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia ( 1867).

Herring is attributed to the introduction of snake venoms and the concept of " nosode " in the materia medica. He is also responsible for many other innovations in the field of homeopathy, such as the observation of disease or healing gradients ( Hering Hering 's law rule or called ), the Einglasmethode, exponentiation with water, the dilution ratio of 1:10, testing new chemical compounds (eg Glonoinum ).

Constantine Hering is the father of Rudolph Hering, founder of the modern environmental technology. Three of his more famous siblings are Carl Eduard Hering, Ewald Hering Pseud. Ewald and Julius Robert Herring.

Hering's rule

The Hering's rule is a criterion for assessing the course of treatment, according to which in homeopathic treatment, the symptoms of chronic disease from " top to bottom " and " inside out ", ie of " more vital to less vital organs ," to improve. The Hering's rule is counted in addition to the law of similars to the most important homeopathic theories. By some homeopaths such as George Vithoulkas or James Tyler Kent, it is also called " Hering 's Law ".

Publications

  • The Homoeopathist or Domestic Physician, Allentown 1835
  • Effects of the snake venom / to medical Gebrauche comparative compiled by Constantine Hering. Blumer, Allentaun (Pa. ) 1837 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Materia Medica with a pathological index, New York 1873
  • Analytical Therapeutics, New York 1875
  • Condensed Materia Medica, New York 1877
  • The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica, 1879 - 1891
  • Homeopathic practitioner ISBN 3-933581-09-5
  • Constantine Hering 's Homeopathic practitioner: for the best homeopathic works and experiences are processed with an instruction to life and order and report Refund and a drug prover. - 17th Edition; revised and enriched. From man, Stuttgart 1893 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Collected medical writings in three volumes. Edited by K.-H. Gypser. Göttingen 1988
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