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Benjamin Franklin Bache ( 1801 - 1881 ), a great-grandson of the Revolutionary War statesman and author Benjamin Franklin , was a surgeon in the United States Navy before and during the Civil War .

Bache graduated from Princeton University in 1819 and from the medical department of the University Of Pennsylvania in 1823 . He became a Surgeon in the Navy in 1828 , and established a laboratory which supplied the Navy's medical department.

During the Civil War , the laboratory was maintained at his expense. It provided supplies to the Union army.


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