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He was the author of a number of important homeopathic works, including the 10-volume Guiding Symptoms, which he did not live to complete. He was joint editor of the Medical Correspondent (Allentown, 1835–1836), of the Miscellanies of Homeopathy (Philadelphia, 1839), of the North American Homœopathic Quarterly (New York, 1851–1852), and of the Homœopathic News (1854), and founded and edited the American Journal of Homœopathic Materia Medica. He published many books in both German and English, including:
Rise and Progress of Homoeopathy (Philadelphia, 1834)
The homoeopathist (1835-1838)
Condensed Materia Medica (1837)
Effects of Snake Poison (1837) / Wirkungen des Schlangengiftes. Blumer, Allentaun [Pa.] 1837
Guiding Symptoms and Analytical Therapeutics
Domestic Physician (1851)
American Drug Provings (vol. i., Leipsic, 1853)…

The products of Dr. Herings pen, principally in the form of essays, are scattered among numerous medical journals covering a period of over fifty years.

The titles of these essays and the places where they may be found I have quoted, with the help of Mrs. Hering, after Dr. Herings demise in 1880, so that all who wish to peruse what he has written, may do so by consulting the volumes in the Library of Hahnemann college.

His later literary efforts were concentrated upon his larger medical works. An indexed review of these writings and larger works follows. They are complete in themselves so far as they have appeared, and are available to students and interested readers. They are links which, connected, form the chain of scientific research in which is summed up the experience of Herings life.

In earlier years, when cares were not so thick, nor duties so pressing, he wrote verse and light prose, fairy tales, satires and novelettes. A satirical vein runs through all of these writings, playful in the lighter products of his pen, but extremely biting and severe when in polemics, he felt called upon to defend the cause.

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Calvin B Knerr
Calvin Knerr was born December 27, 1847 and grew up with a father who was a lay homeopath and an uncle who knew Hering at the Allentown Academy. He attended The Allentown College Institute and graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1869.He then entered the office of Dr. Constantine Hering as his assistant. The diary he kept while living in Hering's house became The Life of Hering, published in 1940.
In 1878 and 1879 he published 2 editions of his book, Sunstroke and Its Homeopathic Treatment.
Upon Hering's death in 1880 Knerr became responsible for the completion of the 10-volume Guiding Symptoms.
Dr. Knerr wrote 2-volume Repertory to the Guiding Symptoms,