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Medical Students and Cadaver
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Group of medical students (?) and instructor (?) posed around a cadaver. Presented by Dr. John G. Meachem III of Racine, Wis. Probably a dissection class at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Ill., from which Dr. Meachem was graduated in 1897.
1896
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