Historical Indulgences

ca. 1864, [U.S. Army surgeon, Dr. S. Baird Wolf, about to amputate an arm]

via Respiratory Diseases: a Photographic History 1845-1870, The Pioneer Era, Stanley B. M.D. Burns

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