The life and letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann / by Thomas Lindsley Bradford.

  • Bradford, Thomas Lindsley, 1847-1918.
Date:
1895
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Credit: The life and letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann / by Thomas Lindsley Bradford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Leipsic was not so extensive as lie desired, and his thoughts turned towards the great medical school at Vienna; and in the spring of 1777 he departed for that place. It must have been soon after his arrival that he was robbed, or in some manner de- frauded of his savings, so that for nine months he was compelled to live on the small sum of sixty-eight florins. In one quarter of Vienna, known as the Eeopoldstadt, there was a very extensive hospital conducted by the Brothers of Charity, and in this Hahnemann received instruction under the guidance of the celebrated doctor, Von Quarin. Freiherr Von Quarin was body physician to Maria Theresa and the Emperor Joseph, he filled six times the post of rector of the University of Vienna.* In fact, Von Quarin was so impressed by the ability of his student that he made him his especial protege, taking him to visit private patients, a thing he had never before done. Throughout his life Hahnemann spoke of Dr. Von Quarin with great friendship, and credited to his influence the fact that he had been able to gratify his ambition and become a physician. At Vienna he did no translating, but devoted himself entirely to acquiring the principles of medicine, and to his studies in the hospital. But his little hoard at last gave out, and he was reluctantly compelled to tell his benefactor of his inability to continue his studies. As he so quaintly expresses it: “ My last crumbs of comfort were just about to vanish.” Nine months of the de- lightful student-life had exhausted all his means. Then Von Quarin came to his aid and secured for him the position of lamily physician and librarian to the Baron von Bruckenthal, who was the Governor of Siebenburgen and who lived in the •city of Hermanstadt. CHAPTER VI. LIFE AT HERMANSTADT—GRADUATION AT ERLANGEN—RETURN TO SAXONY—DESSAU. * It must have been about the close of the year 1777 that Hahne- mann went to Hermanstadt. Here he was far away from every- thing that could distract his mind from study. He passed the greater portion of his time in the valuable library of his patron. *Ameke, p. 5S.