USA vs WILHELM REICH 1954-1957 provided
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Applicants for Intervention
SIMEON J. TROPP April 30, 1954
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE: SOUTHERN DIVISION
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
-v-
THE WILHEIM REICH FOUNDATION, a Maine corpor-
ation, WILHEIM REICH and ILSE-OLLENDORFF,
Defendants. Civil Action File No. 1056
ELSWORTH F. BAKER, K.M. BREMER, PHILIP GOLD,
SIDNEY HANDELMAN, MORTON HERSKOWITZ, CHARLES
I. OILER, CHESTER M. RAPHAEL, MICHAEL SILVERT,
VICTOR A. SOBEY, WILLIAM F. THORBURN, OSCAR
TROPP, SIMEON J. TROPP, EILEEN WALKENSTEIN,
JAMES A. WILLIE. and ALBERT I. DUVALL,
Applicants for Intervention.
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STATE OF NEW YORK )
COUNTY OF NEW YORK) SS:-
SIMEON J. TROPP, being duly sworn, says:
I am a physician duly
licensed to practice as such and one of the applicants for leave to intervene.
I was born in 1896 and attended the
Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School. From 1913 to 1916, I attended the
University of Valparaiso in Indiana. From 1916 to 1920, I attended the
New York University School of Engineering from where I was graduated with
a degree of Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering. From 1920 to 1921,
I continued post graduate studies in education .at Columbia University.
From 1926 to 1933, I studied at the
University of Vienna Medical School from where I was graduated in 1933
with a degree of Doctor of Medicine.
During 1932 and 1933, 1 worked at the
First Medical Clinic of the University of Vienna, and from 1934 to 1938,
I was a full resident at the First Surgical Clinic of Vienna under Prof.
Finsterer.
From 1933 to 1938, I did post graduate
work under the Medical Association of Vienna, and from 1934 to 1938, I
was in Freudian analysis with Dr. Edmund Bergler.
I was licensed to practice in New York
City in 1939, and did mostly surgery until some time in 1940, when I began
a general practice and surgery in New York City, which continued until
1949.
In 1946, I began training and studies
with Dr. Wilhelm Reich in orgonomy, and in 1949 I gave up my general and
surgical practice to take full time work with the Wilhelm Reich Foundation.
This consisted of scientific studies, reports and experiments and continued
until the Fall of 1953, when I resumed my practice in New York City.
As this Court can see, my background
in the various fields of science and medicine is varied and as a result
of my background, scientific studies and experience, I have come to the
conclusion that orgonomy is a valid science based upon valid principles
and that the use of the orgone energy accumulator in medical therapy is
a valid use.
As a matter of fact, since I have resumed
the practice of medicine in New York, I have employed these principles
in the belief that this was the best therapy for patients. The operation
of the injunction serves to curtail and handicap me in the practice of
my profession and the earning of my livelihood. It keeps from me important
and necessary scientific reports and evaluations. It prevents me from reporting
to other physicians and other scientists my discoveries.
Such a result is a direct attack upon
my rights and these rights have not been adequately represented in the
present proceeding, although the questions of law and fact in my situation
and those in the main proceeding are exactly alike.
I respectfully request this Court for a leave to intervene on the grounds set forth in more detail in the affidavit of Dr. James A. Willie.
signed ... Simeon J. Tropp M.D.
Sworn to before me this
30 day of April, 1954.
signed .. Edward Schein
Edward Schein
NOTARY PUBLIC, State of New York
No. 31-8799000
Qualified in New YorkCounty.
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