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Medical Kit:
Medical kit used by Dr. Samuel Mudd at the time he administered aid to Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Though Mudd protested is innocence, he was sentenced to life in prison and sent to the Dry Tortugas Islands in Florida. In 1867, there was an outbreak of yellow fever at the prison. When the prison doctor died, Mudd took over the position, halting the spread of the disease.
In 1869. President Johnson pardoned Mudd, Edman Spangler, and Samuel Arnold. |