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Rush, Dr. Benjamin |
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RG1.B11.F7 - Report
This is an account of the Philadelphia Campaign 1977-1778 illustrated with a collection of maps of the area highlighting the battles and marches. (Maps not in folder.)
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RG1.B2.F21 - Booklet
In celebration of the 200th year as a nation, this booklet tells how physicians have sacrificed their personal lives and fortunes to make our democrary work. It endorses the concept of the physician's obligation as a citizen to participate in the elective process.
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RG1.B2.F22 - Magazine article
An outline of medicine in Pennsyvlania from the time of the Indians who were the first medical practioners through the Revolutionary War, the first hospitals in Philadelphia, diseases, physicians, surgical procedures, the Civil War, and researchers.
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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.F1 - Magazine article
Description of the hospital department and medical conditions prior to and during the Revolutionary War. It mentions the Yellow Springs Hospital.
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RG1.B3.F11 - Excerpts
This is an excerpt from a study on aspects of the American Revolution conducted at Drew University and Syracuse University, NY, with emphasis on the medical administrators
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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.F17 - Journal article
This article details those physicians, surgeons and mates who were with the Continental Army at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War. It also details the medical conditions at the encampment. Lists of physicians from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina are included. The list from PA is incomplete. The total article is incomplete.
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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.F28 - Newspaper clippings
One piece details medicine at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War and the other details Colonial medicine with an emphasis on Revolutionary War medicine
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RG1.B3.F9 - Booklet
Bulletin of the Chester County Historical Society chronicling the exercises of the dedication of a marker on the site of the old Revolutionary Hospital at Chester Springs on October 7, 1916. There are photographs and a history of the site from its founding.
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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.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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RG1.B7.F8 - Excerpts
This is an excerpt from a book on woman of Valley Forge written by Nancy Loane. The chapter is entitled "Camp Nurses, Medicine and Hospitals."
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RG1.B9.F1 - Research materials
This folder includes information collected by Jeanne DuFour who was one of the original members of Historic Yellow Springs in 1974 and possibly a member of the Yellow Springs Association before. Included are: advertisements for stagecoaches to the Yellow Springs, copies of letters mentioning coming to Yellow Springs, clippings, maps and extensive bibliographies especially of the Revolutionary War era. Also are: reports and excerpts on the Rev...
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RG1.B9.F8 - Journal article
This folder has an article on The College of Physicians of Philadelphia founded to advance the science of medicine in 1787. A plaster cast of the Siamese Twins Chang and Eng is housed here.
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RG2.B1.F23 - Excerpts
This excerpt is taken from the original and describes the Yellow Springs Spa. It details special visitors, the descriptions of the various springs, and how people were tranported here. He uses quotes from the PORT FOLIO and other publications.
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