Army medical examining board records / United States Surgeon-General's Office, 1888-1892.

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Army medical examining board records / United States Surgeon-General's Office, 1888-1892.

Instructions, record of proceedings, and reports on the methods of procedure and several examining boards convened in the cities of New York and Chicago.

1 v. ; 34 cm.

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National Library of Medicine

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Born in Charleston, Massachusetts, David L. Huntington, 1834-1899, studied medicine at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the army as an Assistant Surgeon in 1862. Huntington was Acting Medical Director Army of the Tennessee during Sherman's march to the sea in 1864. A career medical officer, Lt. Colonel Huntington at times served as acting Surgeon General. He also was director of the U.S. Army Medical Museum for many years before his retirement in 1898. From the desc...