Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
INSTER,
FREDERICK, M. D., of Port Huron, Mich., was born in Bavaria,
Germany, on April 3rd, 1831. His parents, when he was six years old,
emigrated to the United States, and have lived most of the time in
Detroit. He received a sound English education in the common schools of
the city, and having manifested a taste for the study of medicine, was,
in 1850, placed for the purpose under the supervision of John Ellis, M.
D., author of “Unavoidable Causes of Disease,” and
“Family Homœopathy,” now residing in New York city, and of S.
B. Thayer, M. D. After remaining in those physicians’ offices for some
while and making considerable progress in his studies, he entered the
College of Medicine and Surgery in the University of Michigan, in the
autumn of 1853. The following winter he attended a full course of
lectures in the Homœopathic College of Cleveland, and graduated from
that institution, in the spring of 1855.Soon after graduating,
Dr. Finster formed a co-partnership with Dr. E. H. Drake, of Detroit,
Mich., for the term of two years, at the expiration of which he removed
to Port Huron, his present place of abode. He was the first homœopathic
physician in the place, and he had to struggle very hard for a number of
years against the life time prejudices of the residents in introducing
the new system. He persevered courageously, however, giving his
opponents no excuse for fault finding by ever so slight a remissness in
his duty, and finally through his success in treatment overcame all
opposition, and has built up a practice second to that of no other
physician in the city.His skill is now
questioned by none, not even by his rivals of the old school, while he
possesses in large measure those other qualities of patience,
gentleness, genial manners, and cheerfulness that go so far to make the
true family physician.Dr. Finster has taken
some part in public affairs, but only in the line of his profession.
Thus, for instance, he has held the office of City Physician, and during
his occupation of that position was chosen president of the Board of
Health. The duties of these offices he discharged in a singularly able
and satisfactory manner.Dr. Finster was
married, in 1858, to Lydia A. Kimball.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave