Adolph Graf zur Lippé-Weissenfeld


- On the cutting edge of extinction : how the quest for modernity led to the erosion of identity in american homeopathy from 1865-Craig Repasz (Craig Repasz)

Adolph Von Lippe,
Lippé was a central personality in the schism within homeopathy. Born in 1812, the son of a Prussian count, he was forced into practicing law by his family, although his true love was medicine. On coming to America in 1839, he studied homeopathy under Hering, and received a degree from the Homeopathic College at Allentown in 1841. Later he was one of the founders of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He filled the chair of materia medica at the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania until the controversy and split of the college from 1867 to 1868. He then went into private practice. He was well-known as an opinionated member of the old guard of homeopathy. According to one obituary in 1888: "Having a very positive conviction on some questions upon which there have always been diversity of opinion among us, Dr. Lippé was not always patient of contradiction, and especially in later years often manifested a dogmatism that repelled rather conciliated."xlvii
 W. R Childs, MD, a necrologist and colleague, would also offer insight into Lippé's character. "His intense dogmatism rested upon a basis of profound conviction," he wrote, "and was probably, in part at least to early educational influences. It must not be forgotten that his first years of practice were spent amid the turmoils of clashing medical schools and systems, at a time when his opponents were making desperate attempts to throttle the infant system that he loved-a time which exacted from all the homeopathic physicians of that day a determined struggle for professional life. Such experiences are calculated to make men intolerant of opposition, either real or fancied."xlviii
 Lippé had become a figurehead for conservative homeopaths to rally behind. On January 5, 1880, four homeopathic physicians gathered in Philadelphia to organize a new society for the advancement of Pure Homeopathy. By unanimous approval of those present they decided on a name. "At the suggestion of Dr. C.C.  Smith," the proceeds stated, "it was decided to call the new society " The Lippé Club of Philadelphia . In honor of Dr. Adolph Lippé. Who is distinguished as having always been a Pure Hahnemannian."xlix
 The club was closed membership. In order to join one must have unanimous consent of the active membership. A new member had to sign a declaration of principles, which was substantially the same as pledging allegiance to Hahnemann's Organon. The doctors proceeded to elect Lippé as an active member.
 The proceeds showed that the meetings were devoted to discussing cases using the pure Hahnemannian approach. The proceeds showed language that slights the liberal homeopaths calling them "mongrels" and "pathological people" and accused them of being ignorant of true homeopathy. The proceeds are full of testimonials of great success in curing very high fevers.  1
 By March 1880, there was a membership of seven. They extended honorary membership to 22 doctors over the next four years. Of the original members neither they nor their sons and widows contributed to the Hahnemann monument in the closing years of the 19th century. Only five of the honorary members contributed to the monument. These members and honorary members would become the nucleus that formed the International Hahnemannian Association formed in 1881 during an AIH convention to protest the violations against pure homeopathy that the institute was sanctioning.

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