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New York Hospital and Civil War: U.S. Sanitary Commission Members
on April 5, 2013

New York hospital had four doctors who served with the U. S. Sanitary Commission, a civilian organization that was concerned with the health of the soldiers. The volunteers worked as medical inspectors...
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New York Hospital and Civil War: U.S. Sanitary Commission
on March 22, 2013

Four doctors from New York Hospital were members of the U.S. Sanitary Commission: William Van Buren, Cornelius Agnew, James McLane, and A. Brayton Ball. Valentine Mott was a consultant for the war department...
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New York Hospital and Civil War: Civil War Casualties and Civil War Medicine
on March 1, 2013

Approximately 750,000 Americans whether Union or Confederate died in the Civil War. About 250,000 died of battle wounds. About 500,000 died of infectious diseases such as dysentery/intestinal diseases, malaria...
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Dr. David B. Levine to present Heberden Society Lecture January 23, 4:30pm
on January 8, 2013

David B. Levine, M.D. Emeritus Professor, Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery Weill Cornell Medical College Director, Alumni Association and Archives Hospital for Special Surgery will present the winter 2013...
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Civil War Exhibits
on January 4, 2013

Two exhibits on the Civil War will be on displayed in the Medical College Library until the end of January. The first exhibit is an traveling display called Life and Limb: the Toll of the American Civil War....
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