Surgeon-General's Office biographical sketches of U.S. Naval medical officers 1933

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Surgeon-General's Office biographical sketches of U.S. Naval medical officers 1933

http://oculus.nlm.nih.gov/naval162

Sketches requested of U.S. naval medical officers by the Surgeon General of the Army in 1933.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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