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Potts, Dr. Jonathan |
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RG1.B2.F24 - Magazine
This is a magazine EXPEDITION which contains an article on military hospitals in Colonial America. Two such were in New York and include the Mount Independence General Hospital, Ft. Edward hospital plus medical facilities on Rogers Island. Starbuck has done excavations at the sites to reveal medical equipment. He states that it is difficult to locate hospitals as they were not built for permanency and occupied for a brief period of time. He ...
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RG1.B2.F29 - Report
This is a photocopy of a research paper on the medical department of the Revolutionary War. Included is the history of the department, persons involved, diseases and cures. The Valley Forge Encampment and the Yellow Springs Hospital are discussed as well as the aftermath of the war in medical terms.
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RG1.B3.F12 - Journal article
In two journal pieces, "Medicine at Valley Forge" by William Shainline Meddleton describes medicine during the Revolutionary War with copies of correspondence between General George Washington and physicians. He describes conditions in the camps, physicans in attendance, food served, diseases, hospitals, supplies, medicines, nurses, Valley Forge today.
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RG1.B3.F15 - Magazine article
This article contains information about the Moravian village of Bethlehem, PA, and the care of the sick and injured Continental Army tended there. It further describes the hospital at Lititz and its closing with remaining patients being sent to Lancaster and Yellow Springs during the Revolutionary War..
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RG1.B3.F18 - Journal article
This article describes Dr. Jonathan Potts , an outstanding medical figure in the Revolutionary War, and his medical career. It describes his interest in smallpox innoculations. There is also a copy of Dr. Potts' signature as Purveyor General at Reading, PA.
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RG1.B3.F19 - Journal article
This article describes the Pennsylvania Campaign with battles and hospitals set up to serve. The Yellow Springs Hospital with Dr. Kennedy and Dr. Otto is prominent.
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RG1.B3.F27 - Journal article
Included are print-outs from the Library of Congress re the Revolutionary War that include: General George Washington's expenses when commander-in chief, journals of the Continental Congress that mention Yellow Springs, journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
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RG1.B3.F30 - Letter
These are copies of letters written to Dr. Jonathan Potts, Revolutionary War doctor, from Doctors J. B. Cutting, James Fallon and Samuel Kennedy at the Yellow Springs hospital. Cutting is concerned about filling the medicine chests; Fallon sends requests for supplies; Kennedy thanks Potts for past support to the hospital and requests additional supplies. Original copies are in the Jonathan Potts Papers, Vol. 4, Historical Society of Pennsylvani...
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RG1.B4.F27 - Newspaper article
This is a special commemorative section of the Daily Local News on Thursday, September 9, 1976 called the War Comes to Chester County. It covers the county of Chester, its people and the mood surrounding the Declaration of Independence. It includes taverns of the period , General Washington's battles, the sick and the Yellow Springs hospital and how people are celebrating the Bicentennial.
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RG1.B4.F6 - Biography
This folder contains various pieces of biographical information on Brigadier General Persifer Frazer (1736-1792), who served under General Anthony Wayne during the Revolutionary War. He had served as a delegate to the provincial convention and was from Thornbury, PA. He is buried in Middletown Presbyterian Church in Delaware County. Included are copies of letters he wrote to his wife Polly in the Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum.
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RG1.B5.F21 - Report
This report was prepared for a Revolutionary War program at Valley Forge National Park by ranger William Lang. Lang identifies the key personnel involved in military medicine at the time; the key hospitals established; diseases; prevention and treatment of diseases; with emphasis on the Yellow Springs "Washington Hall" Hospital activities. A map of the Continental Army hospital locations is included.
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RG1.B6.F1 - Biography
This folder contains an array of biographic information on Dr. Bodo Otto, Senior Hospital Physician and Surgeon of the Continental Hospital at the Revolutionary War hospital at Yellow Springs. His image is shown in a copy of an oil painting of him. Genealogical information in included. A copy of his reaffirmation of allegiance of the United States of America with his signature is also included.
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RG1.B6.F2 - Excerpts
This folder contains geneaological and military information on Dr. Bodo Otto, Senior Hospital Physician and Surgeon of the Continental Hospital, and his work in the Revolutionary War, including Yellow Springs. Mention of his sons who served with him at Yellow Springs are also included.
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