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SPECIMEN SOLDIERS

Medical Specimens Of Three 154th New York Infantry Soldiers Tell A Grim Story.

The U.S. Army Medical Museum was established in Washington, D.C., in 1862, during the tenure of Surgeon General William A. Hammond. The institution was conceived as a research facility. Writes medical historian Dr. Ira M. Ratkow, "Military personnel were instructed to obtain specimens from injured and diseased soldiers so that research could be conducted at the museum and surgical problems of wartime." The museum's first curator was John Brinton, former medical director of the Army of the Tennessee and a first cousin of General George B. McClellan. Brinton himself traveled to battlefields to gather specimens, ...

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