Ha-Ha Bay
an inlet of Saguenay river, in Chicoutimi co., Quebec, Canada, midway between Lake St. John and the St. Lawrence river; known also as Grande Bay. It is connected with Great and Little Ha-Ha Lakes by the Ha-Ha river; the bay is about 7 miles long, 1 mile wide, and 600 feet deep.
HAHNEMANN, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH SAMUEL (hä'ne-män), the founder of HOMEOPATHY (q. v.); born in Meissen, Saxony, April 10, 1755.
He entered the University of Leipsic at the age of 20; from Leipsic he proceeded to Vienna for clinical study; he then passed two years as physician and librarian to a nobleman residing in Transylvania; after which he entered and, in 1779, graduated at the University of Erlangen. During the following 10 years he practiced medicine and held several public appointments in Dresden and elsewhere, and then settled in a small village near Leipsic. His observation and practice had convinced him, not only with vehement opposition. Apothecaries refused to dispense his prescriptions, and he was forced to give his medicine to his patients free of charge. This was an infringement of the privileges which German law had conferred on the apothecaries, and hence he was prosecuted in every town in which he attempted to settle from 1798 till 1810, when he returned to Leipsic. Two years afterward he was appointed a privat-docent of the university. At Leipsic he remained till 1821, when a successful prosecution by the apothecaries drove him from the city.
Under the protection of the Duke of Anhalt-Köthen he retired to Köthen, where he became a center of attraction to numerous invalids in all parts of the world. He became known as one of the earliest advocates of hygiene. His book entitled "The Friend of Health" (1792) proves him to have been far in advance of his time in preventive medicine.
Equally so was he in the treatment of the insane. He was also the author of several valuable papers on chemistry. He HAIFA died in Paris, July 2, 1843. A statue of eral in 1910, becoming in 1914, General him was erected in Leipsic in 1851.
HAIFA (hi'fä), a seaport of Syria; at the foot of Mount Carmel. A little distance to the N. W. a settlement of the Württemberg "Society of the Temple" was founded in 1869, who now form a flourishing agricultural colony, chiefly engaged in cultivating the vine and growing fruits. Grain is exported. Gordon Pasha paid visits to Haifa, and here Laurence Oliphant settled in 1882.