Hufeland, Chris Toph

WILHELM, ( hoofe'land,) an eminent German physician, B. at Langensalza, Thu ring i a, 1762, who pursued his profe ion at Weimar, and became, in 1793, profe or in the university of Jena. In 1801 he was appointed physician to the king of Pru ia, in 1809 profe or of medicine in the university of Berlin, and finally director of the academy of military medicine and surgery in 1819. His celebrated work The Art of Prolonging Life was published in 1799; his Counsels to Mothers on Physical Education, in 1800; and his His tory of Health, in 1812. D. 1836. Huff, in Indiana, & flourishing township of Spencer Co.