Adolph Lippe
(1812-1888)
Adolf zur Lippe (1812 - 1888) was a German homeopathic physician who studied and worked in the United States. He was successful in the treatment of epidemics, and became a professor in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. He was famous in homeopathy for his reports of clinical cases and his homeopathic philosophy.
Adolph Graf zur Lippe-Weissenfield was born May 11, 1812 near Goerlitz, in Prussia, and died on January 23, 1888 in Pennsylvania. Dr. Lippe was educated in Berlin and came to the United States in 1838. He first settled in Reading (Berks County), PA and set up practice.
To
further his knowledge, in the fall of 1838 Lippe registered in the first and
only homeopathic medical college in the world, the North American Academy of
the Homeopathic Healing Art in Allentown, Pennsylvania, also known as the
Allentown Academy.
On
August 28, 1841 Lippe passed his final examination in front of Drs.
Wesselhoeft, Detwiller, Freitag and Romig and graduated with a Doctorate in
Homœopathic Medicine. Lippe said that "the possession of an Allentown
diploma is an honor to its holder, as it was only obtained by worthy
applicants. Many who tried to pass were rejected as incapable." The
Allentown Academy closed soon after this and Lippe was their last graduate.
After
this rigorous training, Lippe moved from Reading to Pottsville, PA in 1841
where he practiced with success and growing ability until 1844 when called to a
larger field in Carlisle, PA. J. C Guernsey, the son of H. N. Guernsey, wrote
in his rendering of the history of homeopathy in Pennsylvania that "by Dr.
Lippe's labors in Carlisle and the neighboring counties where homeopathy was
unknown, he opened a large field for our school."
Throughout
this time, Dr. Lippe made a name for himself with his treatment of various
epidemics common in the Cumberland Valley. Then in 1850 Lippe moved permanently
to Philadelphia and took two gentlemen from Carlisle with him to pursue the
study of homeopathy.
Dr.
Lippe held the position of chair of Materia Medica at the Homeopathic Medical
College of Pennsylvania from 1864-1869. He helped launch several of the best
homeopathic journals ever to be published, including the Organon, the
Hahnemannian Monthly, and the Homeopathic Physician. His unswerving commitment
to pure homeopathy was unparalleled, even in his day!
Considered
by many to be one of the most clinically successful homeopathic physicians in
our great legacy, Dr. Lippe's multitudinous publications provide a blueprint
for homeopathic practice. From his suggestions on how to study Materia Medica
to his exposition of Hahnemannian homeopathy, Dr. Lippe gives us
incontrovertible evidence of a highly successful homeopathic method.
Selected
writings of Adolph Lippe are now available in a new, soon-to-be-published
book, The Lessons in Pure Homeopathy, edited by André Saine,
ND. An excerpt from the book is presently available on this Timeline, under the
year 1848 in the article The Homeopathic Medical College
of PA.
CHOLERA.
LECTURE
DELIVERED AT THE
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL
COLLEGE
PENNSYLVANIA
BY
DR. AD. LIPPE.
December 8th, 1865.
PUBLISHED) BY THE CLASS
.
PHILADELPHIA:
COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET.
1866.
CORRESPONDENCE.
HOMCEOPATHIC
MeDICAL COLLEGE,
Pennsylvania,
Dec. 13, 1865.
Ad. Lippe, M. D.
Sir: The undersigned, a committee, appointed by Students of the Homoeopathic
Medical College
of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of procuring your lecture on " Asiatic Cholera,"
delivered on
Friday Evening, December
8th inst., respectfully solicit a copy of the same for publication.
J. B. Owens, M.D., Ohio.
.J. Hebek Smith, Massachusetts.
Chas.
Arthur, Philadelphia.
T. H. Smith, Philadelphia.
N. WiGGiN,
Maine.
1204 Walnut Street,
December 20, 1865.
Gentlemen of the Committee : —
In compliance with your polite request of the 13th inst., I enclose a copy
of my lecture on Cholera, delivered at the Homoeopathic Medical College
of Pennsylvania, on the 8th inst.
Respectfully
yours,
AD. LIPPE.
KEY
MATERIA MEDICA;
Comparative Pharmacodynamic
BY
AD. LIPPE, M. D
PREFACE.
The object of this work which I have the honour
of
laying before the
profession,
is, to facilitate the study of the Materia Medica. While engaged, as I have been for a number of years, in teaching the Materia Medica, I devised various
plans to
facilitate
the
student as much
as
possible in entering
upon thi3 important study, and finally adopted the present, as, according to my experience, the
best suited for
the
purpose.
This plan is to give only the characteristic and most prominent symptoms of each remedy, and to compare them with all other medicines already proved.
We have received the first part of a similar, but more elaborate work, published by the Hahneman Publishing Society in London, entitled : " The Hahneman Materia Medica" which we hope may be continued, as we think it will be very valuable for the Student and Practitioner. ' In the present work I shall only give what I consider most essential.
The description and analysis of the
drugs, their
history, and their preparation, I could easily have copied from larger works, but they belong to other branches of Medical Science.
By Characteristic Symptoms I understand such symptoms, as have been repeatedly produced upon the healthy, and cured in the sick, by each respective drug ; and such symptoms especially, as assist to distinguish it from all, or most other drugs, endeavoring by stating the drugs analogous
to a given symptom, to compare the one with all other drugs, as regards their similarities and differences.
The more frequently a symptom has been produced and cured, the more it increases its relative value to the student of the Materia Medica ; and while these symptoms may often determine the choice of a remedy in a given case, Pathology must determine the relative value of the various symptoms presenting to us the disease to be treated. While, for instance, grinding of the teeth in Encephalitis is a very important symptom, it is much less so in disturbances of the
abdominal organs, and would not occupy the same rank when selecting a remedy. In classifying the drug symptoms, I first give the generalities, stating the kind of pains peculiar to the drug ; the organs on which it acts ; the concomitant symptoms ; and the conditions as to time and circumstances under which the symptoms are aggravated or relieved. This is followed by the prominent effects on the different parts of the body ; in
sleep ;
and mental emotions ; in the same order as was adopted by Hahneman. In the selection of the characteristic symptoms I have not been guided by any
previous
work of that kind, such as Jahn, Possart, Boenninghausen, Altshuhl or Schneider.
The various drugs treated of in this work, will not be given in alphabetical order. I shall first give the
Polychrests, as
necessarily
the most important, and most frequently used, and therefore, claiming the attention of
the student, at
the commencement of his course. This work will serve the student likewise as a Repertory, and there will be found in it, many things that he would look for in vain in all previous works on Homoeopathy.
Being well aware
that this work—a first effort of the kind—will admit of improvement,
I shall
very gladly and thankfully receive suggestions
from any source, as to imperfections that may exist, and corrections tending to make it more useful.
AD. LIPPE.
Philadelphia, October
11,
1853.
Keynotes of The Homoeopathic
Materia Medica
Dr. Adolph VON LIPPE
TEXT BOOK
MATERIA MEDICA.
BY
AD: LIPPE M.D.
Professor of
Materia Medica at the Homoeopathic College of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA:
A. J. TAFEL,
PUBLISHER,
No. 48 NORTH
NINTH STREET,
1866.
PREFACE.
This work was originally prepared for
the use of those attending the Lectures on the Materia Medica, in the Homoeopathic
Medical College of Pennsylvania, and at their request.
It contains the characteristic and
most prominent special symptoms of the best pi-oved and most used of our Medicines.
The distinction of symptoms, as the
result of provings on the healthy (pathogenetic,) or as the result of clinical observations
on the sick (curative,) or as belonging to both these classes, has not been retained
in this work. Such distinctions belong exclusively -to the complete Materia Medica,
the study of which the present Text-book is intended to facilitate, not to supersede.
And to a more thorough and satisfactory study and knowledge of Materia Medica than
has been general of late years, it is sincerely hoped that this book may prove
both an introduction and a guide.
So great is the multiplicity of symptoms,
the result of provings, clinical corroborations and observations, with which our
growing Materia Medica is overladen, that it seems little less than an impossibility
to obtain a clear > discriminating view of each separate remedy.
The efforts previously made to overcome
this difficulty, by abridging the Materia Medica, have proved but failures. Nor
was it possible for them to have resulted otherwise, since they did not exhibit
the essentially characteristic symptoms of the different medicines. They were attempts
at mechanical sifting, weeding out, made without proper comprehension of the
subject; which disappointed those who referred to them, and led them to demand a
differently prepared and more reliable guide.
It is with the greatest reluctance
that I have yielded to the requests of my professional friends and of those whom
I have the pleasure of instructing, and endeavored to meet this demand. As only
those who have undertaken such a work can truly realize its arduous nature, so no
one can be more thoroughly conscious of its imperfections than is the author himself.
Those who have mastered the Materia
Medica, the author is well aware, may be acquainted with characteristic symptoms
unknown to him or overlooked by him; and he will thankfully receive and
acknowledge such supplementary, characteristic and especial symptoms, for incorporation
in the present work.
In presenting this Text-book to his
colleagues, the author relies as well upon the intelligence as upon the charity
of those most conversant with the subject; since while they will undoubtedly notice
many omissions and much room for improvement, they will, at the same time,
appreciate the formidable nature of the task which he has been induced to undertake.
The method and object of the work are
different from those of any before published on the Homoeopathic Materia Medica;
but its arrangement is simple, varying but little from that originally adopted by
Hahneman.
The first symptoms given are those
of the mind, followed by those of the different parts of the body, beginning
with the head,—which also includes giddiness,—and concluding with the feet. Then
come the generalities, comprising the symptoms relating to the Nervous Systems
and to the Circulation; these belonging to
Sleep, Fever and the Skin; and finally, the most prominent conditions of Aggravation
and Amelioration, from time, place and circumstance.
The usefulness of this book can only
be determined by the practical test, to which it is respectfully submitted by THE
AUTHOR.
Philadelphia, December 30th, 1865.
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