HOMEOPATHY : SOME CASE STUDIES FROM RENOWNED DR. LIPPE

Hello everyone! Myself Dr Devendra Pal Singh

It's been a quiet long since I've written in our group.

Recently my friend,  Dr Gaurang Gaikwad, made an inspirational video about Dr Lippe and his phenomenal thoughts on prescribing.

So here is some of my contribution. I have collected some cases  of Dr Lippe. Enjoy all the readers. 

             

     CURED CASES OF LIPPE

H ALLEN

LYSSIN

Dr. Lippe cured an important case in which he was guided by a symptom produced only from bites, but never observed any provings. But Lippe's observation was confirmed by many other good observers. Some symptoms from bites of rabid dogs have been added: Pasteur's method of administration is very different from that employed by homeopaths, but he is working on homeopathic lines in seeking to neutralize a virus in the system by introducing a modification of the same virus. 

N M CHOUDHARY

COCCULUS

Dr. Lippe cured a case of enlargement of the liver, on the indication of the pain in the liver being aggravated after a fit of anger, on the part of the patient.

CONIUM

The peculiarity of this sweat is, that it comes on as soon as the patient sleeps or even when he closes his eyes.

Insignificant though this symptom may seem, it has helped to bring about many marvellous cures.

On this indication Dr. Lippe cured an old man of hemiplegia.

RATANHIA

Ratanhia has a peculiar toothache.

The molars feel elongated with sensation as if ice cold air rushes out of them.

It is also of great use in toothache during the early months of pregnancy.

It is so intolerable as to make our patient get out of bed and walk about.

This makes Ratanhia very similar to Magnesia carb.

Dr. Farrington mentions of how a New York doctor unable to cure such a case with Magnesia carb. called Dr. Lippe in consultation, who suggested Ratanhia, which proved effective.

J .H .CLARKE

PRUNUS.SPINOSA

Spraining pains and pains which take away the breath.

A remarkable symptom is : "Breath always seems to remain sticking in pit of stomach."

This symptom, with "pain as if sprained in left ankle," led Lippe to make a remarkable cure in this case : A young lady, 16, jumped from a carriage whilst the horse was running away and sprained her ankle.

R HUGHES

CACTUS.G

Dr. Lippe states that he has frequently cured with Cactus the pressive headache in the vertex so often met with as a result of menorrhagia.

T ALLEN

MERC.SULPH

Merc. sulf. is as important in hydrothorax as Arsenic. Has cured several cases; one was reported by Ad. Lippe.

HOYNE T

ARNICA

FEVER

Dr. Lippe says the epidemic of 1872, frequently presented the following symptoms which were cured with Arnica 4OM.

BENZOIC.ACID

Dr. Lippe reports a case of asthma with the characteristic urinary symptoms, cured by two doses of Benzoic acid, 11 m.

Also a case of asthma and gout with the same urinary complications cured with the same remedy and potency.

BISMUTH OXYZATUM

CHOLERA

- Dr. Ad. Lippe reports a case cured by Bis. 200. 

- The main characteristic indication was :

- Only water is thrown up, while other substances entering the stomach are retained.

NARSIMHAMURTY

ACONITE

Dr. Lippe : Pleurisy from sitting in the open window - stitches in the right side of the chest - crying - least motion causes great pain - breathing short and rapid - restlessness - pain increases with movement. Dr. Lippe cured it with Aconite 50 M dry on the tongue. The pain was relieved in a few hours. But it returned with all its force. Six pellets of Aconite 50 M dissolved in water acted better. Entirely relieved by the next morning.

PHOS

CHOLERA

Cold water drunk is vomited as soon as it becomes warm in the stomach. On this symptom, a case of cholera was cured with Phosphorus by Dr. Lippe. Very thirsty for cold water.

GUNVANTE

- If the symptoms for which a remedy is given are removed and a new symptom appears, withhold the hand if you wish the case to go on to recovery LIPPE.

R MURPHY

Lippe cured with "a single dose of Sulph. at new moon" a case of menorrhagia, patient had not been well since her last miscarriage.

In traumatic injuries of bone or periosteum (as from a snowball or anything else on the face), Symph. was the only remedy Lippe has seen efficient. He cured many cases after others had used Arn. and failed.

H ALLEN

"Every case of intermittent fever, can, has and must be cured, with the potentized remedies, under the law of the similars homoeopathically."-Lippe.

DEWEY

In 1867 Adolf Lippe had a case of chronic poisoning by cane sugar (in other words a super sensitiveness to this substance). He removed it completely by Saccharum officinalis. (Hahn. Mo. Oct. 1867.)

J SHERR

In all cases of strong external forces, or stronger dissimilar disease, it is prudent to eliminate the resulting symptoms or in strong incidents to terminate the proving. This is Lippe. 

STUART CLOSE

Dr. Adolph Lippe illustrated his method in this way: "In many cases," he says, "the characteristic symptoms will consist in the result obtained by deducting all the symptoms generally pertaining to the disease with which the patient suffers, from those elicited by a thorough examination of the case." In other words the characteristic symptoms are the symptoms peculiar to the individual patient, rather than the symptoms common to the disease.

He illustrated this by a case, as follows: "The patient was attacked by cholera. All the characteristic symptoms of cholera were present; but in this individual case there was (1) an unusual noise in the intestines, as if a fluid were being emptied out of a bottle. (2) The discharge came away with a gush. Of what pathological value these symptoms were we know not. Still they formed part of the totality which we must cover. Deducting from the (numerical) totality of the symptoms those common to the disease, we were in possession of the characteristic symptoms of the patient.

"We found that those two symptoms are also characteristic of JATROOHA CURCAS , and that this remedy, at the same time, has caused symptoms corresponding with the general pathological condition." Jatropha promptly cured the case

This case is a beautiful example of the kind of work for which Dr. Lippe was famous. It illustrates the necessity of being familiar with the natural history, symptomatology and diagnosis of disease. Dr. Lippe could not have decided that these two symptoms were peculiar and characteristic if he had been unfamiliar with the symptoms of cholera. Neither could he have selected these two symptoms as peculiar if he had not had the rest of the symptoms before him for comparison.

SYMPTOMATOLOGY

Dr. Lippe, discussing characteristic symptoms, wrote as follows: "When medicines are submitted to provings upon the healthy they develop a variety of symptoms in a variety of provers. Each prover has his own peculiar, characteristic individuality affected by the medicine in a peculiar manner; other differently constituted individuals experience different, yet similar, peculiar symptoms from the same medicine. There is a similarity and a difference evident upon close comparison. In like manner diseases and all other external influences affect different individualities differently, yet similarly. The physiological school and its followers accept in disease only what is general (common) to all those affected by it; in medicinal provings in the same manner they accept only that which has been experienced alike by many. In both cases they simply (sic) generalize. The homoeopathic school reverses this order. Accepting all the symptoms experienced by the differently constituted provers, they consider as peculiarly characteristic the individual symptoms of the patient; those not generally experienced by others suffering from a similar form of disease."

#"I think Dr lippe didn't got position and credit in homeopathy which he should have got as other stalwarts got.  Even he prepared the mind section of Kent repertory but didn't got any credit.

This article is in honour of Dr Adolph Lippe, A great stalwart."

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