French Military Hospitals in Rhode Island
byLouis-Dominique Éthis de Corny (1736–1790),Commissioner of War, came to America aboard the French warship Hermione along with Maj. Gen. Marie Jean Paul Joseph du Motier…
eighteenth-century medicine
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George Washington and the First Mandatory Immunization
byThe debate over mandatory vaccination for Covid-19 has led to many articles referring to how George Washington handled a similar issue, this one involving…
A Moonlighting British Army Surgeon
byDuring the American War of Independence, the British Army officer corps routinely relegated its surgeons and physicians to a secondary status among its ranks….
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Starting from Scratch: Combating “the Itch”
byAlthough it may not have been fatal, scabies brought more patients to British Army hospitals during the Seven Years’ War than any other condition,…
Lessons from an Outbreak: Smallpox in the Hudson Highlands, 1781
byOn January 20, 1781, near New Windsor in the Hudson Highlands of New York, Dr. Samuel Adams wrote a brief entry in the diary…
This Week on Dispatches: Brian Patrick O’Malley on Philadelphia’s Yellow Fever Epidemic
byOn this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Brian Patrick O’Malley on the social and medical response to the Yellow Fever epidemic that ravaged…
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The Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1793: Nine Observations and Lessons
by“I often thought that the situation of a people in a bombarded city, was not much worse, and on some accounts not so bad;…