The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-24
NOTED MANS DEATH.
DR.. Frederick Humphreys Passes
Away at Monmouth Beach.

DR.. Frederick Humphreys Passes
Away at Monmouth Beach.
DR.. Frederick Humphreys, for many
years a resident of this city, says the New
York Tribune Of July 10, and the manu-
facturer Of Humphreys. Specifics, died
Sunday at Monmouth Beach, in his eigh-
ty-fifth year, after a lingering Illness.
Or. Humphreys was born in Marcellus,
N. Y, on March II, 1876 He received an
education In tho public schools and at
Auburn academy. For two years he WAS
a clerk in store in Auburn, and then, at
the age of sixteen, went South with his
brother, julius, and an uncle, TO engage
In the clock business, which he followed
for three years. In 1887 he married Miss
Cornelia Palmer, of Auburn, who died on
June 4, 1910, leaving one son. After teach
ing school at ChiIicothe, O., for three
years, he studied for the ministry Of the
Methodist church, and for five years was
an itinerant minister, serving a year sue
cessively In Worthington, o., and at Cay
uga, Cortlandville, New Hartford and
Utica. In 1845 he was ordained an elder
at Utica. In 1S43 he married Frances Ma
ria Sperry, of Ludlowville, n. Y. In 1874
he settled in Utica and united with his
father, Dr. Erastus Humphreys, IN the
practice Of medicine, The winters Of 1643
1919 and 1850 were passed at the Homeop-
athic Medical college, In. Philadelphia.
From 1S4S to 1852 DR.. Humphreys made a
careful Investigation, the results of which
he published in the Proving of the Apis
He employed his Office assistant, George
Washburn, in catching the insects alive,
and he extracted their poison from them
by inclosing them in large-mouthed bot
tie. shaking them until they were enrag-
ed, and pouring alcohol over them, thus
securing the mother tincture Of the virus.
Armed with this novel infusion he began
a series of experiments by administering
the medicine to himself his wife, his stu
dents, patrons and friends, and for two
years devoted himself to careful observa-
ton of the results.e Then, at a meeting
of the Central New York Homeopathic
Medical saciety, he presented his disooy-
cries in an address of great interest. The
tincture was distributed among the ply
sicians present, and they co-operated with
DR.. Humphreys by sending him their re-
ports of symptoms 2and cures. In 1862 he
issued the monograph above referred to,
and Is credited with having made therein
one of the important contributions to the
Materia Medica of the homeopathic
school. DR.. Constantine Herring, his in
struetor in the college Nm PHILADELPHIA.
enlarged the work by adding the recorded
results Of Bee Stings, and published the
whole as an important addition to Amer
ikanische Arzneiprufungen.
DR.. Humphreys original proving after
ward gave the profession one Of its most
valuable remedies for dropsy, diphtheria.
angina, malignant scarlet fever, kidney
diseases, ophthalmia and cerebral and
pulmonary congestion. He also brought
to the attention of his profession a prep
aration of "nux cum sale" as valuable
remedy in intermittents. Three years
later, with the aid of his medical class in
Philadelphia. he proved the "Plantago
Major" thus adding another proved rem
edy to the Materia Medica. This was the
period of the formation of public opin-