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Dr. Joseph Romig

The Dog-Team Doctor

Helen Hegener
Feb 3, 2021
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From the Jan-Feb, 2021 issue of Alaskan History Magazine:

Joseph Herman Romig, M.D., Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, wearing a buckskin costume like those worn by medicine men of interior Alaska. Pluming the cap are feathers of the raven, thought by the Eskimos to be the great creative spirit of the human race. The picture, from his book, was…

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