Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
EEGER,
FERDINAND, M. D., of New York city, was born there on November 3d,
1846. He is the son of a German physician who embraced homœopathy
before coming to this country, and grandson of one of the physicians to
the King of Wurtemburg. He commenced his medical studies at an early
age, being intended by his father to follow him in his profession, but
owing to that parent’s death the plan was temporarily abandoned.
Subsequently he obtained the means to complete his training, graduated,
and began practice in New York, where he now enjoys a large and wealthy
patronage.In 1868, he founded the
Northeastern Homœopathic Medical and Surgical Dispensary in New York,
and in the following year the Hahnemann Hospital. For the latter
institution a noble building is in course of erection, promising to be
the finest homœopathic hospital in the world, and a model of scientific
hospital construction. In 1871, the Hahnemann Hospital Clinical School
was established by the distinguished faculty of which he is a member.In 1870, he was elected
Honorary Member of the Society of Homœopathic Physicians of St.
Petersburg, Russia ; and in 1872, of the Homœopathic Medical
Society of Paris, France. He is a member of the New York County
Homœopathic Society, and one of its Censors for 1873. For several years
he has been a delegate to the New York State Homœopathic Society ;
a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy, and of the American
Institute of Science, Arts, etc., of New York city.He is well known as a
writer, translator and editor. The annual reports of the Northeastern
Dispensary and of the Hahnemann Hospital have been prepared by him, as
also, in conjunction with Professor F. W. Hunt, vol. I of the
“Hahnemann Hospital Reports.” His writings and translations
are chiefly to be found in the following homœopathic periodicals :
the North American
Journal, the Sun,
the American
Observer, the New
York State Society’s Transactions,
also in the Eclectic
Magazine. His
passion for music and singing has led to his special attention to
diseases of the throat and lungs, and to the translation of Professor
Ferdinand Sieber’s “Art of Singing,” which labor has been
highly spoken of by acknowledged critics. In the same connection, it may
be mentioned, that he is an amateur artist of some ability and a
discriminating patron of art.During the reform
excitement in New York, in 1871, he occupied a prominent position, being
appointed, among other offices, as member of the celebrated Committee of
One Hundred. He has also paid much attention to political and social
economy, and is an especially warm advocate of cooperation. He has
labored very assiduously for the diffusion of co-operative principles,
and has presided over many mass meetings organized to advance their
adoption. He has been Vice-President of the Third Union Co-operative
Land and Building Association, and now holds a similar position in the
Co-operative Manufacturing and Land Improvement Company of Potter
county, Pa., the business office of which is in New York.He claims to have
lately invented certain useful and important improvements of Tobold’s
laryngoscopic apparatus, and other laryngeal instruments.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave