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The Value of Objective Symptoms

A discussion by Lippe and other doctors, circa 1867, of the value of objective and subjective...

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe - Renowned homeopathic physician and founding member of the International Hahnemannian Association, who worked in the United States. Born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 5-11-1812, died in Philadelphia 1-23 1888. His parents were Count Ludwig and Countess Auguste of Lippe-Weissenfeld.[1] After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837. A year later he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He was successful treating the epidemics that then prevailed in Cumberland Valley. He then settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. He was a colleague of James Tyler Kent, Henry Newell Guernsey, Carroll Dunham . Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of: Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854) and Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)

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