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Holcombe, William Henry

physician, author, poet, was born May 25, 1825, in Lynchburg, Va. He was a homœopathic physician of New Orleans, who was well known as a Swedenborgian writer, and was the author of Our Children in Heaven; Lost Truths of Chris- Southern The Other Life; tianity; Voices, a volume of verse; Scientific Basis of Homœopathy; How I Became a Homœopath; Poems; The Sexes Here and Hereafter; In Both Worlds; The End of the World; The New Tenant; Letters on Spiritual Subjects; and Condensed Thoughts About Christian Science. He died in 1894.

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