Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
HRMAN,
EARNEST J., M. D., of Evansville, Ind., was born in Wurtemburg,
Germany, October 29th, 1819. He received in his youth such advantages as
were afforded by the common schools of Germany. In 1823, at the age of
fourteen, he came to the United States with his parents, who located in
York, York county, Pa. His father, by profession a physician, soon
established a good practice.He for over thirty
years followed the old school system both in Germany and in this
country, but was finally persuaded of the great truths of homœopathy,
and induced to adopt them. From that time he was a zealous disciple of
the new school of medicine, and until his death practiced homœopathy
with marked success.Having passed through a
course of study which finished his literary and classical education, he
determined to embrace the profession of medicine, and at the age of
twenty commenced a careful course of reading under the instruction of
his father, which lasted five years.In 1844, he removed to
Liverpool, York county, Pa., and followed a successful practice of some
years’ standing. In 1851, he attended a full course of lectures at the
Medical College of Pennsylvania, and then removed to Rietzville, York
county, Pa. ; thence, in 1852, to Evansville, Ind., where he has
since remained. He was the first homœopathic practitioner of Liverpool,
Rietzville and Evansville. His success at Evansville was of gradual but
sure growth. He was subjected to strong opposition, which required time
to overcome ; but faithful attention to his duties and in his
treatment of disease enabled him eventually to obtain wide recognition
of homœopathy and to build up a good practice.He has held the
position of Physician and Surgeon for the County Marine Hospital, and is
now Physician and Surgeon of the Orphan Asylum of Evansville, Ind.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave