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BELGIANS IN AMERICA:    Biographies of Belgian settlers  

Dr. J. C. Le Hardy was born in Belgium, October 21, 1831. His literary, classical and scientific education was received at the Brussels Athenaeum, the Brussels Universeté libre and Ecole Ponts et Chaussee, and his medical and pharmaceutical studies in the Georgia Medical College at Augusta. Ga., and the Jefferson Medical College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia. He graduated from the Jefferson College in 1855 and settled first near Rome, Ga, and afterwards in Savannah, He is a member of the Georgia Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, of Georgia. He is the author of several contributions to medical literature of which may be mentioned: "Treatment of Stricture of Uretha," "The Duality of Syphilitic Poison," 'The Aerial and Terrestrial Influences on Disease." He held the position of professor of chemistry in the Oglethorpe Medical College and bas been especially active in promoting the objects of organized medicine.

Source : Jones, Charles Colcock, : History of Savannah, Ga. : from its settlement to the close of the eighteenth century; Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1890, 676 pgs.