Joseph Hippolyt Pulte

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

He then moved to Cincinnati, where, in 1844, he co-founded the American Institute of Homeopathy in New York City.

Pulte was accused of plagiarism by J. W. Metcalf in The North American Journal of Homeopathy, in 1851.

[1] According to Metcalf, Pulte's book Homeopathic Domestic Physician published in 1850 was a copy and paste job from the works of Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland and others with parallel columns of text being almost identical.

Metcalf also accused Pulte of plagiarizing entire sections of Constantine Hering's Domestic Physician (1835), Joseph Laurie's Domestic Medicine, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr's Manual, Erastus Edgerton Marcy's Theory and Practice (1850) and Calvin Cutter's Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene (1850).