1942–2019
Biography · Medicine
Anderson Ruffin Abbott
1837–1913
Canada
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Biography
Abbott earned his medical licence in Toronto in 1861 and served as a contract surgeon for the Union Army during the American Civil War, later corresponding with Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
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