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2009 MEETINGS November 22 1:30pm at the Congregational Church in Toulon (note time & place of meeting). The Congregational Church is located at 218 North Henderson in Toulon, IL.Coming to Toulon on Illinois 78, turn east on Illinois 17 to Henderson St. and North on Henderson two blocks to the church. CIVIL WAR MEDICINE AND TREATMENT A most unusual program will be presented for the Henry and Stark Counties Genealogical Societies at the First Congregational Church, Toulon, on Sunday, Nov. 22, beginning at 1:30 pm. Dr. Julius P. Bonello, M.D., F.A.C.S. will speak on “Civil War Medicine.” Bonello has served as Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Ill, Peoria for the past six years. He received his BA from the College of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, and then went on for his MD and post-graduate studies at the U. of Minnesota Medical School and Graduate School. “Civil War Medicine” is one of a number of areas he has researched thoroughly and given as presentations at Bradley U, Carle Clinic, Urbana, and at meetings in Peoria, Las Vegas, Orlando, and Chicago. He also has published articles on “Civil War Medicine” in The Surgical Technologist, in 2000 and in The Peoria Medical Journal, 2004. He has taken college students on several trips to Gettysburg, and has traveled to several battleground areas of the Civil War for research. Bonello has Civil War surgical equipment he will be showing along with his presentation. Anyone interested in the history and/or genealogy of the Civil War will find this program fascinating. Guests are welcome, and refreshments will be served. LAST MEETING FOR 2009 DECEMBER......NO MEETING