Joseph Hippolyt Pulte

Joseph Hippolyt Pulte

Joseph Hippolyt Pulte (born in Meschede, Westphalia, Germany, October 6, 1811 – died in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 24, 1884) was a homeopathic physician.

Biography

He was educated in the gymnasium of Soest and received his medical degree at the University of Hamburg. He followed his brother, Dr. Hermann Pulte, to the United States in 1834, and practised in Cherrytown, Pennsylvania, but became a convert to homeopathy, and took an active interest in forming the homœopathic academy in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which closed in 1840.

He then moved to Cincinnati, where, in 1844, he co-founded the American Institute of Homeopathy in New York City. In 1872, he established in the medical college that bears his name in Cicinatti, where he was professor of clinical medicine. In 1852, he was made professor of the same branch at the Homeopathic College of Cleveland, where he served as professor of obstetrics in 1853–55.

Literary efforts

• Organon der Weltgeschichte (Cincinnati, 1846; English ed., 1859)
• The Homœopathic Domestic Physician (1850)
• A Reply to Dr. Metcalf (1851)
• The Science of Medicine (Cleveland, 1852)
• The Woman's Medical Guide (Cincinnati, 1853)
• Civilization and its Heroes: an Oration (1855)

He contributed to various homeopathic journals, was an editor of the American Magazine of Homeopathy and Hydropathy in 1852–54, and of the Quarterly Homeopathic Magazine in 1854. He edited Teste's Diseases of Children, translated by Emma H. Cote (2d ed., Cincinnati, 1857).

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Pulte, Joseph Hippolyt" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

Further reading

• "Pulte, Joseph Hippolyt". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1936.
• "Pulte, Joseph Hippolyt" . Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 22. 1920. p. 799.