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ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY
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Figure 5.—Maj. John Hill Brinton, U.S. Volunteers, first Curator of the Army Medical Museum, 1862-1864.
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg—seeking to enlist the interest of the surgeons with the armies, to develop a "true professional interest" in the Museum as an opportunity to contribute to the "common stock of surgical knowledge" and