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Professor Alberto Lodispoto
British Homoeopathic Journal October 1995, Vol. 84, pp. 247-8
Professor Alberto Lodispoto Professor Dr Alberto Lodispoto died on 13 February 1995 in Rome, Italy. After taking his university degree in medicine in Rome, Professor Lodispoto specialized in orthopaedics, tropical diseases and malariology and in gastroenterology, and then became Libero Docente in History of Medicine. He also took qualifications in h o m o e o p a t h y in England (Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital), Germany (Robert Bosch Krankenhaus, Stuttgart) and France (Centre Hom6opathique de France, Paris). Professor Lodispoto was a founder m e m b e r o f the World Federation o f Life Sciences (Melbourne, Australia). As a writer, Professor Lodispoto is the author of more than 100 publications. In Italy, he was considered one of the leading homoeopathic physicians. DENISE LODISPOTO Dr Jean Hindmarch Dr Jean Hindmarch was born on 16 April 1902; she died on 4 January 1995. She qualified as a doctor at Glasgow University in 1924. She started her career in the mining village of Gartcosh, Lanarkshire as an assistant general practitioner. In 1926 her parents gave her s to set up in practice and buy her brass nameplate. Her practice was in Bellshill a few miles away. She b e c a m e i n c r e a s i n g l y interested in h o m o e o p a t h y which she had been brought up on by her parents and became known in the villages around as Dr Jean with the twinkling eyes who made you better with her wee white pills. During an epidemic of diphtheria she treated many families with homoeopathy. One morning while she made her return visit to two families living in one of the villages, as she approached the tenement building where they stayed she noticed a group of weeping women huddled round the end of the close. As she drove nearer, they rushed towards her crying, 'Oh Dr Jean, my wean is deid', she climbed up the stairs not knowing if it was one of her patients who had died. It was a 247
great relief to discover that the four children she had t r e a t e d h o m o e o p a t h i c a l l y had survived but three out o f five in the close who had been treated allopathically had died during the night. It proved to her once more the true power of 'the wee white pills', as the children loved to call them. Throughout the months of that first year in her practice, she became increasingly aware just how often homoeopathy helped when no other treatment was available. This made her even more determined to find out more about homoeopathy. She contacted Dr John Paterson, Consultant at the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital. He encouraged her to come to the hospital and, in time, said she should travel to London and sit the exam to become a homoeopathic doctor. She travelled down to London in 1940. With her on the train, also going to sit his exam, was a well-known G l a s g o w h o m o e o p a t h i c doctor called Dr Harold Emslie. They both passed their exam, returning to Glasgow to practise. Dr Hindmarch was offered a post on the s t a f f o f the C h i l d r e n ' s H o m o e o p a t h i c Hospital in Mount Vernon, Glasgow, where she started the first homoeopathic outpatient clinic. It was not long before word spread about this new form of medicine. The waiting room became unique. She saw over 100 patients most days. They brought their flasks, cold drinks for the children and even their knitting, talking to each other often for hours and never complaining because they knew just how busy the doctor was. In fact, it became very therapeutic in many ways, as they came in apprehensive, not knowing just how homoeopathy would treat them but they were told stories of cures and improvements under homoeopathy. This encouraged them and turned their frown to smiles. I first met Dr Hindmarch in 1969 while working at the Children's Homoeopathic Hospital as a staff nurse. I had had the conventional training at the G l a s g o w Royal Infirmary and it was not long before her amazing case studies intrigued and eventually converted me.
Professor Alberto Lodispoto Professor Dr Alberto Lodispoto died on 13 February 1995 in Rome, Italy. After taking his university degree in medicine in Rome, Professor Lodispoto specialized in orthopaedics, tropical diseases and malariology and in gastroenterology, and then became Libero Docente in History of Medicine. He also took qualifications in h o m o e o p a t h y in England (Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital), Germany (Robert Bosch Krankenhaus, Stuttgart) and France (Centre Hom6opathique de France, Paris). Professor Lodispoto was a founder m e m b e r o f the World Federation o f Life Sciences (Melbourne, Australia). As a writer, Professor Lodispoto is the author of more than 100 publications. In Italy, he was considered one of the leading homoeopathic physicians. DENISE LODISPOTO Dr Jean Hindmarch Dr Jean Hindmarch was born on 16 April 1902; she died on 4 January 1995. She qualified as a doctor at Glasgow University in 1924. She started her career in the mining village of Gartcosh, Lanarkshire as an assistant general practitioner. In 1926 her parents gave her s to set up in practice and buy her brass nameplate. Her practice was in Bellshill a few miles away. She b e c a m e i n c r e a s i n g l y interested in h o m o e o p a t h y which she had been brought up on by her parents and became known in the villages around as Dr Jean with the twinkling eyes who made you better with her wee white pills. During an epidemic of diphtheria she treated many families with homoeopathy. One morning while she made her return visit to two families living in one of the villages, as she approached the tenement building where they stayed she noticed a group of weeping women huddled round the end of the close. As she drove nearer, they rushed towards her crying, 'Oh Dr Jean, my wean is deid', she climbed up the stairs not knowing if it was one of her patients who had died. It was a 247
great relief to discover that the four children she had t r e a t e d h o m o e o p a t h i c a l l y had survived but three out o f five in the close who had been treated allopathically had died during the night. It proved to her once more the true power of 'the wee white pills', as the children loved to call them. Throughout the months of that first year in her practice, she became increasingly aware just how often homoeopathy helped when no other treatment was available. This made her even more determined to find out more about homoeopathy. She contacted Dr John Paterson, Consultant at the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital. He encouraged her to come to the hospital and, in time, said she should travel to London and sit the exam to become a homoeopathic doctor. She travelled down to London in 1940. With her on the train, also going to sit his exam, was a well-known G l a s g o w h o m o e o p a t h i c doctor called Dr Harold Emslie. They both passed their exam, returning to Glasgow to practise. Dr Hindmarch was offered a post on the s t a f f o f the C h i l d r e n ' s H o m o e o p a t h i c Hospital in Mount Vernon, Glasgow, where she started the first homoeopathic outpatient clinic. It was not long before word spread about this new form of medicine. The waiting room became unique. She saw over 100 patients most days. They brought their flasks, cold drinks for the children and even their knitting, talking to each other often for hours and never complaining because they knew just how busy the doctor was. In fact, it became very therapeutic in many ways, as they came in apprehensive, not knowing just how homoeopathy would treat them but they were told stories of cures and improvements under homoeopathy. This encouraged them and turned their frown to smiles. I first met Dr Hindmarch in 1969 while working at the Children's Homoeopathic Hospital as a staff nurse. I had had the conventional training at the G l a s g o w Royal Infirmary and it was not long before her amazing case studies intrigued and eventually converted me.