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Called the “father of homeopathy in America”, Dr. Hering was a German immigrant, who, with a few others, brought homeopathy to the United States. He helped found the short-lived Allentown Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art in 1835, which received a state charter to award medical degrees, and provided the first formal homeopathic education in the world. But the Allentown Academy did not last, so in 1848 Dr. Hering and others founded the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, later known as Hahnemann Medical College. It was the first successful homeopathic college.
Dr. Hering earned his (regular) medical degree from the University of Wurzburg in 1826 and became a staunch supporter of Samuel Hahnemann’s system of medicine, known as homeopathy. He published the nation’s first homeopathic domestic health guide, The Domestic Physician, and was a founder and first President of the American Institute of Homeopathy.