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    • Closing in on a Killer: Scientists Unlock Clues to the Spanish Influenza Virus: 1918: Influenza Sweeps America
    • Effects of Canister Shot in the Civil War: Skull of a soldier of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers
    • Hairballs: Myths and Realities behind some Medical Curiosities
    • Walt Whitman's Soldiers
    • William Holland Wilmer Ophthalmology Collection
    • Preserving the Wounding Agents of War
    • Discovery of the X-ray: A New Kind of Invisible Light: Röntgen and the Discovery
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    Last Modified: 23 Jun 2025
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