BACKGROUND AND BEGINNINGS
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Figure 7.—A page from the first Catalogue of the Army Medical Museum. The specimen shown is the one listed as No. 76 in the catalogue.
conoidal bullets devised by Capt. C. E. Minié of the French Army and widely adopted by both sides in the Civil War. Comparatively few American surgeons had had experience with gunshot wounds, and fewer still had so much as
