Talk:Mélanie Lipinska

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The sources I plan to use are and (Belles18 (talk) 04:26, 17 September 2016 (UTC))

Peer Review
I think it's really interesting that Lipinska is not only an experienced scientist herself but also a historian on the topic. I will be really interested once you add more information from the available resources in the library. Bbrugg (talk) 22:01, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Criticisms
Much in this article turned out to be incorrect. This appears to be partially the fault of the student editor who wrote it (stuff about California & living most of her life in France appears to have been an invention/misreading of the editor), but worse, the American sources from 1902 and 1922 are terrible nonsense, and the book by Marilyn Ogilvie and Joy Harvey appears to be mostly wrong as well: She was not blind, was not French, did not study in Polish hospitals (first off, there was no Poland at the time, and second she only went to school in Warsaw), did not win the Prix Victor Hugo (it was the Prix Comte Léopold Hugo), etc...

I found two more sources: In 1930 Lipinska republished her thesis as a book and this well-referenced biography from the Polish government. She also published a book on medicine in Egypt (1929), two about thermal bathhouses in Poland (1929, 1931), one about re-educating the blind (1931), and lastly, in 1932, something in Polish about medicinal degrees I think (nauk lekarskich). Her other books were all in French. She appears have been a 'speculative psycho-therapist', later specialising in ophthalmology (well, treating people with sight problems with psycho-therapy). She was one of a number of European woman doctors at the time. After Warsaw, where she got some kind of Russian diploma, she moved to Stockholm, then Zurich, to study the 'Thur-Brandta method'; then Paris, then Brussels, then Luxeuil-les-Bains, then Warsaw again (?), then Belgium again, then Paris again. She worked in Joséphine Joteyko's laboratory briefly in Brussels in 1903, and was either also a vegetarian or studied it there, as well as self-hypnotism (metodą autosugestii). If I understand it correctly she had a psycho-therapy clinic in Belgium for a time starting in 1905, and possibly removed to Poland after independence/the Great War. As far as I can tell she lived in France for stints: from 1900 (or perhaps a few years before) to 1903, briefly in 1904, and some time again in or after 1909 (as some kind of ophthalmological assistant at the main/old hospital). In 1909 she began producing Polish propaganda. She visited the White House with the French ambassador and Albert Thomas (fide the picture in the 1930 book, in which Thomas wrote the foreword) when she visited the USA in 1922 (per the otherwise untrustworthy single sentence clause in JAMA). She was at the medical congress in Bologna in 1928 and some other congress in Cairo in 1931, and another in New York, where she met with Dr. Batesa, who had treated Helen Keller, at his clinic. She died in Katowice on 27 June 1933 and is buried in Gliwice. I don't think she ever married or had children. The Polish source says she won 500 (I think) from the French prize, and that she won two (also the Prix Montoyoux).

I'm translating this mostly from the Polish source, can't really read Polish well at all (just taught myself a bit a few weeks ago!), and don't use auto-translate stuff, so it would be better if someone else wrote this article. I will, however, delete the obviously wrong stuff, and make this article a stub. Don't trust my translation above (!!!), but also don't trust anything published in English. Leo Breman (talk) 23:44, 30 July 2020 (UTC)