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Pioneers
of homeopathy
by Dr Thomas
Lindsey Bradford
Presented by Dr Robert SérorAdolph
Ferdinand Haynel (?-1877)
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Dr.
ADOLPH FERDINAND HAYNEL. (? – 1877)
Hartmann
says : (N. W. Jour. Hom., Vol. IV., p. 210.
Med. Couns., Vol. XI)
Hahnemann
took two
of his pupils to Coethen, Drs. Haynel and Mossdorf.Haynel
led the life
of a true nomad, was at Berlin at the first invasion of the
cholera, then at Merseberg for the purpose of assisting Dr. Rummel, where I saw him again ; finally he visited me
in 1830, in Leipsic, where he provided himself with a large stock of
Homoeopathic medicines with the intention of going to North America ; since which time I have not heard
from him.Hering
says : (Hom. Times, (N. Y.), Vol. v., p.
216)
Dr. A. J.
Haynel died at Dresden, August 23, 1877,
aet. 81. He was an inmate of Hahnemann’s family for more than ten years, and proved a number of
remedies for him.About the year
1835 he came to America and resided first at Reading, Pa., then at Philadelphia. In 1845 he lived in New York, and still later in Baltimore, from whence he returned to Europe several years ago.
Hering
thus speaks
of Haynel in another place :One of the oldest of
Hahnemann’s pupils and indeed the first who was
a member of his family – the only student living of the first Leipsic period of Hahnemann’s career – Dr. A. F. Haynel
– even now (1868) hale and hearty and actively
furthering our cause mentioned in a conversation with Dr. P. P. Wells that he had given Spongia in heart disease, etc.Dr.
Gray, in an address before the New York
Hom. Med. Society, said that Haynel
established Homoeopathy on a firm basis in Baltimore as early as 1838.Dr.
Raue says :
I knew
Haynel having often met him at Dr. Hering’s. He had been an inmate of Hahnemann’s family and he had been engaged to Caroline, Hahnemann’s daughter but for some reason the affair was broken off,
and that is likely the reason why Haynel
left Hahnemann.While in
Philadelphia he was very ill with typhoid fever
and Hering treated him ; he was at death’s
door when Dr. Hering was induced to give him just one
drop of red wine on the tongue, and this was the turning point in the
sickness and he commenced to get better.
Dr Constantin Hering (Portrait)
Hering
was greatly
pleased. When the cholera appeared in 1851
Haynel was in Baltimore and was quite successful with a
certain remedy. He sent a box of powders containing this remedy to Hering, but did not tell him its name. Hering wrote asking the name, but Haynel refused it.What is the name ? I will not tell. This caused a coolness between them
that continued for some time.It was not long after this when
Haynel
went to live with his sister at Dresden.Then, no doubt remembering
Hering’s
kindness, he repented of his refusal to tell the name of the cholera
remedy and wrote to Hering and revealed the secret.The remedy was
Bryonia.
Haynel’s
sister’s
son went to Baltimore while he lived there, and he sought
to start him in practice ; but the young man was just from the
universities of Germany and he preferred to practice
according to his own belief.Haynel
was a quiet,
reserved man, corpulent and with a smooth shaven face.WRITINGS.
Analecta ad historiam circuitus sanguinis. Jenae : Schreberi et soc.
1820.
This biography is extracted from the book of Doctor Thomas Lindsley
Bradford (1847 – 1918) : ” The Pioneers of Homeopathy” 678 pages,
Boericke Tafel (Philadelphia, 1897).
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