On the Universality of the Homœopathic Law of Cure (Classic Reprint)
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Seventy-seven years have elapsed since then, and this law has been adopted in their practice by a numerous body of educated physicians in all parts of the globe.
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Pathogenetic And Clinical Repertory Of The Most Prominent Symptoms Of The Head: With Their Concomitants And Conditions
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On the Efficacy of Crotalus Horridus in Yellow Fever: Also in Malignant, Bilious, and Remittent Fevers; With an Account of Humboldt's Prophylactic ... a Serpent, at Havana, Cuba (Classic Reprint)
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The following account of the Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, during the year 1853, was written at the time of its occur rence. Some cases of Bilious Remittent Fever were added subsequently. The facts seemed to me important enough to be preserved in the archives of homoeopathy.
My almost exclusive use of crotalus in the milder cases of this otherwise formidable disease was involuntary. I pre scribed it, agam and again, because it was the only remedy which seemed most promptly to subdue the symptoms of this disease.
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Diphtheria, as It Prevailed in the United States From 1860 to 1866: Preceded by an Historical Account of Its Phenomena, Its Nature, and Homoeopathic Treatment (Classic Reprint)
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I then determined to make myself, as far as possible, familiar with the nature of Diphtheria, by examining its records from the most ancient times. For this purpose I procured-from the Library of the Pennsylvania Hospital all the works relating to the subject.
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Charles Neidhard was an American pioneer homeopathist and physician. He was one of the charter members of the American Institute of Homeopathy and for many years was very active in the work of various scientific committees.
Background
Charles Neidhard was born on April 19, 1809 in Bremen, Germany. He was the son of Friedrich Neidhard and his wife, the daughter of Professor David Christoph Seybold. He came of an old and distinguished patrician family of Ulm, in the Cathedral of which town is the Neidhard Chapel more than five hundred years old. His grandfather was a Lutheran bishop of eminence; in the Austrian branch of the family was Cardinal Nithard, who later became prime minister of Spain. His father died when Charles was six years old. His mother then married Professor Georg Friedrich List of Württemberg, a distinguished political economist.
Education
The boy's early education was obtained at the Buxweiler College, in Alsace, and at the Gymnasium at Stuttgart. Neidhard accompanied his step-father and shortly after his arrival in America began the study of medicine in the office of a physician at Reading, Pennsylvania. He took two courses in the Philadelphia Medical Institute, two years of clinical lectures at the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, and three and one-half courses at the University of Pennsylvania. Neidhard continued his studies and joined the Leipzig Medical Society in 1835 and later graduated at Jena. In 1837 Neidhard was graduated from the Allentown Homoeopathic Medical College. In 1862 he received the honorary degree of M. D. from the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago.
Career
His career at the latter institution was interrupted summarily at the end of the first year, that is in 1825, because List had incurred the displeasure of the government and was banished, whereupon he soon removed to America.
Neidhard became broken in health. Regular treatment proving unavailing he consulted Dr. William Wesselhoeft, of Bath, Pennsylvania. The result was good and Neidhard became a convert to homeopathy. In 1834 he accompanied his step-father to Leipzig, Saxony, to which city the latter had been appointed United States consul.
He returned to America in 1836 and took up the practice of homeopathy, which he continued up to the time of his death.
In 1839, associated with Dr. Constantine Hering and Dr. Walter Williamson, he organized and incorporated the Hahnemann Medical College of Pennsylvania. For the first three years of the institution's existence he held the chair of clinical medicine. He then resigned from the faculty because facilities for clinical instruction had been afforded in the hospital.
His most notable contributions to literature were Neidhard on Diptheria, as it Prevailed in the United States from 1860 to 1866 (1867), and On the Efficacy of Crotalus Horridus in Yellow Fever (1860, 1868), both of which were leading authorities of their day.
He was an associate editor of the American Journal of Homopathy in 1838 and a co-editor of the North American Journal of Homeopathy from 1862 to 1868. He was a voluminous contributor to various homeopathic medical journals. He published provings of realgar, calcarea phosphorica, cinnabaris, oxalic acid, oleum jecoris asseli, antimonium sulphuratum auratum, cannabis indica, formic acid, mephitis putorius, rhus tox. , sanguinaria, phytolacca decandra, tarentula, balsam of Peru, and calcarea arsenica.
Neidhard was ordinary and corresponding member of the medical societies of Leipzig, Paris, Munich, Brazil, and of the state societies of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He built up a large practice in Philadelphia.
He died of heart disease, suddenly, on April 17, 1895.
Achievements
His treatise on "Diphtheria in the United States" is admirable and exhaustive, and is regarded in England and America as one of the best ever published.
Neidhard was by nature a studious man and possessed strong literary tastes.
As a physician he exhibited a kind personality, was ever observant of phenomena of illness. His sole interests in life were his patients and the promotion of the organization of homeopathy as a healing art. Though an intense believer in his school of medicine, he was always tolerant of the views of others.
Connections
He had married Isabella Taylor, the daughter of Richard Taylor, an English geologist. They had five daughters.
