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Pioneers
of homeopathy
by Dr Thomas
Lindsey Bradford
Presented by Dr Robert Séror
William
Hering (1803-?)
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- Dr. HERING, WILLIAM. (1803- ?)
The following obituary notice of this
English pioneer of Homoeopathy appeared in the British Journal.
Dr.
Hering, who died on the 10 th of October
last, at Reigate, after repeated attacks of an apoplectic character, was
one of the older race of homoeopathic practitioners.
He was born in
1803, and took out his license to
practice from the Apothecaries’
Company, in 1826.
Early in his career he became a convert to
Hahnemann’s doctrines, and continued steadily to practice
homoeopathically until the end of his professional life.
Failing health compelled him to withdraw himself from the active
duties of practice a few years ago, and he vainly sought renewed vigor
in several of the most renowned
German
baths.
Though a careful and successful practitioner, Dr.
Hering added little to the development of our art. A
few practical papers scattered among our periodical literature are all
that he has done in this way.
But his death has created a more profound sorrow among his
colleagues, and among an immense circle of friends, than that of many a
more conspicuous apostle of the cause his popularity was greatly owing
to his inexhaustible humor, his kindness of disposition, and his
affectionate nature.
These qualities sewed to gain him the friendship of many beyond the
mere circle of patients and colleagues.
Indeed, he enjoyed the intimacy of many of the most distinguished men
of his time –
D’Orsay, E. Landseer, Theodore Hook,
the Chalons, Etty – and, indeed, almost all those conspicuous in art were
among his friends and acquaintances.
His social qualities recommended him to the tables of wits its and
patrons of wit of the last generation, and no one could better entertain
a company, or ” keep the table in a roar,” than our departed
colleague.
But the mere possession of a ready wit and uncommon powers of mimicry
world not alone have sufficed to render him so beloved as he was by all
who knew him.
His heart was as warm as his wit was sprightly, and he was singularly
free from the meaner passions of envy and spite too often found in
alliance with a turn for jesting. While broadly humorous, there was
never anything ill natured about his stories.
Of
German descent, he abounded in the German quality of Gemüthlichkeit or playful good humor.
He has left void in our little world it will be hard to fill. (
Brit. Jour. Hom., vol 35, p. 93.)
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