APPENDIX A
SOME INFLUENTIAL DOCTORS IN THE CONTINENTAL
HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT, 1775 TO 1783
Name |
Highest Responsibility |
Education/Experience |
Benjamin Church |
Director General |
Studied medicine in London |
John Morgan |
Director General |
M.D. from Edinburgh, further medical studies
in England and Europe, surgeon in French and Indian War |
William Shippen, Jr. |
Director General |
M.D. from Edinburgh, further medical studies
in England |
John Cochran |
Director General |
Apprentice-trained in England, surgeon's mate
in French and Indian War |
Benjamin Rush |
Physician General |
M.D. from Edinburgh |
Malachi Treat |
Physician General, Chief Hospital Physician |
Professor of Medicine at King's College |
Ammi R. Cutter |
Physician General |
Served with British at Louisburg and in Indian
frontier wars with rangers |
William Brown |
Physician General |
M.D. from Edinburgh |
Walter Jones |
Physician General |
M.D. from Edinburgh |
Charles McKnight |
Surgeon General, Chief Hospital Physician |
Private student of William Shippen, Jr. |
Philip Turner |
Surgeon General |
Assistant surgeon to provincial regiment under
General Amherst at Ticonderoga |
Jonathan Potts |
Deputy Director General |
Studied medicine at Edinburgh, M.D. from Philadelphia |
Samuel Stringer |
Director of Hospital in North |
Served in British Army |
James Craik |
Chief Physician and Surgeon General of the
Army |
Trained at Edinburgh, served in French and
Indian War |
Peter Dott Fayssoux |
Chief Physician and Surgeon General of Southern
Department |
Medical education at Edinburgh |
Hugh Williamson |
Surgeon to the North Carolina militia |
Medical education at Edinburgh and London,
M.D. from Utrecht |
Bodo Otto |
In charge of Yellow Springs hospital |
Medical education in Europe |
James Tilton |
In charge of various hospitals, including
that at Trenton |
Graduate of Philadelphia |
SOURCES: Gordon, Aesculapius,
pp. 42, 47, 95, 127, 216, 304, 369, 374, 417, 476; Major, History of
Medicine, 2: 718, 721-22; Butterfield, Letters of Rush, 1: 108n,
163n, 177n; Sydney H. Carney Jr., "Some Medical Men in the Revolution,"
Magazine of History 21 (1915): 185; Duncan: Medical Men,
p. 84; Brown, Medical Department, pp. 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 60.
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