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PHOTOTHÈQUE
HOMÉOPATHIQUE
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Dr Henry
BAETHIG (1850-1906)
Photo collection Sylvain Cazalet.
HENRY BAETHIG, M. D.
Dr. Baethig was born in
Nuremburg, Germany, in 1850, coming to Buffalo when he was quite a lad. His
father was a well-known physician, one of the earliest disciples of
Hahnemann who practiced in Buffalo. Dr. Baethig was educated in the public
schools of that city and later attended Hahnemann Medical College of
Philadelphia, from which institution he received his degree in 1870. He at
once entered upon the practice of his profession in Buffalo, where his death
occurred July 14th, 1906.
The esteem in which he was
held is best told in the following minute adopted at a joint meeting of the
Erie County Homeopathic Medical Society, the Clinical Club, and the staff of
the Buffalo Homeopathic Hospital :
The Nestor of our
profession has passed on to his reward.
Henry Baethig was one to
whom everyone, young and old, professional and otherwise, delighted to go
for wise counsel, for friendly advice and for practical suggestions in time
of difficulty or danger, and having gone to him for that purpose, no one
ever came away without benefit and relief. Always kindly and courteous in
manner, with never an expression of impatience at any demand made upon his
time or his strength, he was ever ready with just the right suggestion of
what was newest and best in any department of medical lore. For it was a
source of wonder to his associates in medicine how, in spite of the
constantly increasing exactions of a very large clientele, he found
opportunity to keep himself informed and in touch with every new departure
or advancement for the detection of diseased conditions and the relief or
eradication of the same from the human economy. And yet he was no mere
wanderer in the field of medicine, ever looking for something new and
different for the cure of disease, since none were more ready than he to
hold fast to that which had proven of value in his many years of experience
and practice.
A careful, conservative
diagnostician, an exact and intelligent prescriber, a thoughtful and
far-seeing observer of the progress and probable outcome of pathological
conditions with which he came in contact, he was indeed a tower of strength
in his profession.
Add to this a genial
temperament, a most lovable disposition, a heart big enough to recognize all
that was noble and good in those about him, and too big to be affected by
the petty weaknesses and littlenesses of poor, frail human nature, and
little wonder is it that no man in the profession will be more sorely missed
than he, both among his professional associates and the public at large. We
have lost a friend and a brother ; his patients have lost a most valued
helper and counselor ; his family has lost a loving husband and a
tender father, while he has gained the reward that ever awaits a life of
conscientious, self-sacrificing devotion to duty.
“There is no
death ; what seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death.”
Dr. Baethig joined the
Institute in 1874.
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