BIO: Julius Elmond KEMPTER, M.D., Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 141
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JULIUS ELMOND KEMPTER, M. D.

  Julius E. Kempter was born at Laupheim, near Munich, Germany, in 1868, a son 
of Ambrose Kempter who immigrated in 1871 to Baltimore, Maryland.  Dr. Kempter 
received his preliminary education at Wesley Academy, graduating A. B. in 1888, 
later studying medicine at the University of Maryland and was graduated with the 
class of 1894.

  Before engaging in active practice, Dr. Kempter spent several years studying 
in dispensaries and hospitals of Baltimore and Washington and, in 1896, went to 
Cuba during the insurrection.  Returning to Washington he was anesthetist at 
Garfield Memorial Hospital.  In 1898 he acted as locum tenens for Dr. I. S. 
Garthwaite, a class mate practicing at Webster Mills, Fulton County.  Finding 
country life congenial he began the practice of medicine at St. Thomas in 1899, 
moving in 1905 to Chambersburg where he is now actively engaged in his 
profession, and a member of the Chambersburg Hospital Staff.

  Dr. Kempter's first paper read before the Medical Society of Franklin County 
in 1899, "Ethyl Bromide As An Anesthetic in Minor Surgery" received a half 
column review in the London Lancet.  In 1903 his paper before the same society, 
"The Use of Antitoxin in Diphtheria Associated with Pregnancy" is said to be the 
first reported case of pregnancy in which antitoxin was used.

  While president of the Medical Society of Franklin County in 1915 Dr. Kempter 
prevailed upon Dr. W. L. Rodman, then President of the American Medical 
Association, to deliver an address on cancer before a Chambersburg lay audience.

  In 1926 Dr. Kempter spent nine months in Europe doing post graduate work in 
Vienna, acting as hospitant for six months in the Dr. Pirquet Pediatric Clinic.

  In 1901 Dr. Kempter married Grace Guyton, a daughter of a pioneer surgeon of 
Sioux City, Iowa, and a graduate nurse of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.  They have 
three sons, Guyton, Richard and Julius, Jr.