Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
MITH,
J. HEBER, M. D., of Melrose, Mass., was born in Bucksport, Me.,
December 5th, 1842. His father and grandfather were both clergymen of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he himself was originally in tended
for the ministry. When seven years old, his parents having moved to
Massachusetts, he commenced his education in the Charlestown city
schools, and afterwards entered the Haverhill High School, where,
however, his studies were unfortunately seriously interrupted by ill
health, and had to be continued under private tuition, with the view of
preparing him for the ministry. His health still continuing in a
delicate condition, at the age of nineteen the original plan was
abandoned, and he turned his attention to the medical profession,
entering the Homœopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, in which
institution he graduated, a valedictorian of his class, in the year
1866. On receipt of his diploma, he immediately settled in Melrose,
where he commenced the practice of medicine according to Hahnemann’s
system of treatment, and with marked success, as he soon found himself
in the enjoyment of a flourishing and profitable practice. In 1868, he
was married to Miss Mary A. Greene of the same town.He is a member of the
American Institute of Homœopathy, and one of the editors of the New
England Medical Gazette,
and for the last two years has been Chairman of the Committee on Materia
Medica of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Medical Society, and recently
accepted the position of Adjunct Professor of Materia Medica in the
Boston University Medical School.Though doubtless the
early ill health of Dr. Smith was a misfortune for the church he was
destined to enter, it cannot but be regarded as a gratifying result that
it should have been the means of inducing him to adopt the medical
profession, as a firm and faithful disciple of the doctrines of homœopathy,
and a skilful and successful practitioner of its system, must ever be a
valuable acquisition to its ranks.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave