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Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914)

American neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) examining a Civil War veteran at the Infirmary for Nervous Diseases of the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital. (Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Public domain.)

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