John Westmoreland

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The first dean of Atlanta Medical College (later Emory School of Medicine), John Westmoreland pioneered research in yellow fever, cofounded the Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, and helped found Atlanta's first medical society, the Brotherhood of Physicians, responsible for establishing a local medical code of ethics.

Courtesy of Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.