Richard Burr: Poster Child for Wartime Embalmers

Richard Burr: Poster Child for Wartime Embalmers

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

All Bones Considered #065 - Part 4 

Richard Burr was a Civil War surgeon who found there was more money in "treating" the dead and became an embalmer. Photographer Matthew Brady immortalized him with a battlefield photo.

 

This is section 4 of All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #065 - Fathers and Mothers of American Medicine, Part 4.  You can find plenty of other stories about American medical pioneers in earlier episodes.  

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