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Absurd Prejudice: A. Snowden Piggot and the Confederate Medical Laboratory at Lincolnton
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21675
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Aaron Snowden Piggot was a skilled doctor, anatomist, physiologist, and chemist who worked with the Confederacy as director of a medical laboratory in Lincolnton, North Carolina during the Civil War. As director, Piggot produced opiates and sulfuric acid which was crucial to the creation of many medicines and saved the lives of countless Confederate soldiers.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 3, July 2004,
p313-334 , il, por, f
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