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GEORGE MILLER, an American surgeon; born in Otsego co., N. Y., June 8, 1838; was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City in 1860. He was appointed an assistant surgeon in the army in 1861; promoted captain and assistant surgeon May 28, 1866; major, Dec. 1, 1875; lieutenant-colonel Jan. 2, 1891; and brigadier-general and surgeon-general May 30, 1893. During the Civil STETSON War he served in the Army of the Potomac and in the Department of the Gulf. Afterward he served through several cholera and yellow fever epidemics, and in 1898 at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he planned the army hospital train, and had charge of the medical service of the army. He was secretary of the Havana Yellow Fever Commission in 1879; president of the American Medical Association in 1898; and the author of "Photo-Micrographs, and How to Make Them"; "Manual of Bacteriology"; "Immunity, Protective Inoculations, and Serum- Therapy"; etc. He died in 1915.

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