Constantine Hering

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Constantine Hering (January 1 1800 – July 23 1880), born in Oschatz, Saxony was an early pioneer of homeopathy in the United States. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig where his conversion to homeopathy occurred. Later, he was treated for a dissecting wound with the homeopathic remedy Arsenic and the finger was saved, further provoking his interest. He began corresponding with Hahnemann in 1824. Following his graduation from the University of Würzburg in 1826 he received a commission from the King of Saxony to travel to Surinam on a natural history expedition. He settled there for a number of years and commenced practice before emigrating to Pennsylvania in 1833. He was one of the pioneers of homeopathy in the United States of America and helped to disseminate homeopathy there. He was the author of a number of important homeopathic works, including the 10 volume Guiding Symptoms, which he did not live to complete. He introduced a number of homeopathic remedies to the materia medica, including Lachesis, Psorinum and Glonoine.^[1]

References

1. ^ Winston, Julian, The faces of homeopathy (Tawa, New Zealand: Great Auk Publishing, 1999), 30-34.

Winston, Julian. The Faces of Homeopathy. Tawa: Great Auk Publishing, 1999.