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• School: Physicians & Surgeons
• Class Year: 1883
• War: World War I
• Date of Death: December 2, 1918

Major Joseph Bidleman Bissell, U.S. Army Medical Corps and Chief Surgeon at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, died at home in  New York City of blood poisoning over Thanksgiving, 1918, three weeks after the Armistice In addition to a long career in surgery, Major Bissell was active in the use of radium in medicine, having established a sanitarium in New York in the use of radium for the treatment of cancer. In 1914, when war broke out in Europe, Dr Bissell joined the Medical Reserve Corps, and worked with wounded soldiers in England, as well as behind the front lines in France. When the United States entered the War in 1917. Dr. Bissell entered full army service and was made a major in the American Army. After training, in the summer of 1918, he was appointed Chief Surgeon at Fort McHenry Baltimore.

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