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Hempel, Charles Julius

physician, author, was born Sept. 5, 1811, in Prussia.

He was a physician of Grand Rapids , Mich., who came to America from Prussia in 1835. He was the author of Christendom and Civilization; System of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; The Science of Homœopathy; Homœopathic Theory and Practice in Surgical Diseases (with J.

Beakley); True Organization of the New Church; and Life of Christ (in German).

He died Sept. 25, 1879, in Grand Rapids, Mich.

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