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| Keywords: Mower Hospital 1863.jpg Mower U S A General Hospital Chestnut Hill Philadelphia color lithograph by James Queen In the foreground a train with two passenger cars stands at the depot for the reception of patients Behind is the hospital consisting of a central compound from which radiate forty-seven wards and other buildings the whole enclosed by a picket fence There is a key to the identification of the buildings which housed 4 000 patients This hospital designed by John McArthur was bounded by Abington and Springfield avenues and fronted by the Chestnut Hill track of the Reading Railroad opposite the present Wyndmoor Station The largest hospital in the Philadelphia area it was opened on January 17 1863 P S Duval Son< Philadelphia ca 1863 James Queen PD-Old Hospitals in Philadelphia American Civil War medicine Pennsylvania in the American Civil War History of Philadelphia | ||||
