1. Constantine J Hering was a physician who was an early pioneer of homeopathy in the United States.
16 Facts About Constantine Hering
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Constantine Hering had been engaged to write a book confuting homeopathy, but upon reading Samuel Hahnemann's works and investigating homeopathy's clinical claims for himself he became convinced of its efficacy, sought out the author, and became his personal friend.
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Later, Constantine Hering was treated for a dissecting wound with the homeopathic remedy Arsenicum album and the finger was saved, further provoking his interest.
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Constantine Hering was for a time instructor in mathematics and natural science in Blochmann's Institute, Dresden.
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Constantine Hering settled there for a number of years and commenced practice before emigrating to Pennsylvania in January 1833.
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Constantine Hering was one of the pioneers of homeopathy in the United States of America and helped to disseminate homeopathy there.
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Constantine Hering founded a homeopathic school, the first of its kind in any country.
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Constantine Hering devoted much study to cures for the bites of venomous serpents and for hydrophobia, and developed many of Hahnemann's theories.
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Constantine Hering introduced a number of homeopathic remedies to the materia medica, including Lachesis, Psorinum and Glonoinum.
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Constantine Hering's father was the German composer Carl Gottlieb Hering.
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Hermann Constantine Hering was a practitioner, teacher, and lecturer of Christian Science.
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Constantine Hering served a term of president of the church and as the appointed First Reader of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, and later of the Christian Science church in Concord, NH.
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Also Carl Constantine Hering was one of his sons.
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Constantine Hering made discoveries on electromagnetic force and wrote a book about his father.
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Constantine Hering was the author of a number of important homeopathic works, including the 10-volume Guiding Symptoms, which he did not live to complete.
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Constantine Hering published many books in both German and English, including:.