Dr. Hoffendahl (1841) removed to
Boston, Dr. Bruchhausen went to Hudson, N. Y., and prosecuted his studies under Dr. George W. Cook, later of Brooklyn, now deceased.

Thence he betook himself to New York city with a view of attending lectures in one of the allopathic
institutions, and matriculated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons ; but a fit of sickness, and the slim prospect of one so heterodox
obtaining a diploma from the Regulars, prevented him from completing the course, to enjoy for a while a purer air in Providence, R. I., and the
advantage of preparing himself privately for practice with Dr. Parlin.

Conversant, besides Latin and Greek, with French, German and English, he improved also all
opportunities for familiarising himself with homopathic literature. He wrote a "Popular Essay on Homopathy andAllopathy," which was
published in

Hull's Homopathic Examiner, vol. ii. Nos. 5 and 6, and afterwards circulated as a pamphlet. In 1842, he engaged in the translation of "Hufeland's Enchiridion
Medicum," which he finished in August of that year. About that time learning that there was an opening for a homopathic physician in Chenango,
one of the then more secluded counties of the State (now traversed by two railroads), he repaired to Greene and embarked upon the hard life of a country
practitioner, which tries both body and mind. As a pioneer of the new doctrine he had in addition much prejudice and opposition to combat with, but
bravely fought his way, gradually winning for himself and the system the favor of the people. The following May, 1843, he located in the village of
Oxford,