biography
| name: |
Hering, Constantine
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| male
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| lived:
| (1800–80)
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| biography:
| Homeopathic physician, born in Oschatz, Saxony, Germany. He studied medicine in Leipzig, Germany, under Dr Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, a theory based on the principle that minute doses of a substance that produces disease symptoms in a healthy person will cure a person sick with the same symptoms. He went to the USA in 1831, settled in Philadelphia (1833), and organized the first school of homeopathy in the USA at Allentown, PA (1835). In 1848 he co-founded the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, which later merged (1867) with the newly founded Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He set forth the basics of homeopathy in English with his work, Guiding Symptoms (10 vols, 1878–91). |
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