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RG1.B10.F15 - Research materials
This folder contains info on early medicine in our country. There is a dialogue on the history of early medicine, a list of medicines and equipment for the medicine chests during the Revolutionary War as compiled by Dr. Bodo Otto and administered by Apothecary Genral Cutting at Yellow Springs and a list of the herbal plants in the 18th Century Medicinal Herb Garden at Yellow Springs.
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RG1.B1.F30 - Reprint
This folder contains a news clipping from 1987 re the establishment of the Herb Garden at the site of the Revolutionary War hospital at Yellow Springs. It also contains a 2012 brochure printed by the Philadelphia Unit Herb Society of Ameria detailing the current Herb Garden with a plan, a list of plants with associated cures and a list of activities for the Herb Garden.
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RG1.B3.F14 - Exhibit Report
This exhibit report describes the various panels in the exhibit: the Yellow Springs Hospital; Archaeology at the Yellow Springs Hospital; Colonial Cures; Herbs and Gardens. Also included is a rhyme about John Coakley Lettaon, a Quaker physician.
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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.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.F34 - Magazine article
This folder contains a variety of materials on Colonial medicine, trees, herbs, gardens, and those involved in these areas.
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RG1.B4.F12 - Report
This folder contains information on the march of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War in the Philadelphia and Chester County areas. It includes Yellow Springs. Bibliographies, naratives and maps are included.
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RG1.B4.F26 - Document
This directory lists medicinal herbs and their use for medicinal treatment. Included is a plan of the herb garden at Historiic Yellow Springs. There are activities for children to learn more about he plants and a brief history of the medicine practiced during the Revolutionary War time.
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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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RG2.B2.F10 - Booklet
This booklet details the contributions of Philadelphia to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The medical reference (pp. 7-11) is of importance as it gives detail to the medical world in Philadelphia at that time. There was interest in botany, anatomy, natural history an surgery. Some, including Thomas Jefferson, feared medicines. Lewis Meriwether's mother was an herb doctor in Virginia and he had acquired much of her knowledge. William Clark ha...
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RG2.B2.F3 - Excerpts
This photocopy of correspondence between noted American botanist John Bartram and Dr. John Fothergill, Jr. in 1743-44, was found in the journal article "Memorials of Bartram and Marshall" by William Darlington, M.D. In Fothergill's letter to Bartram, he asks about the availability of mineral water in the "inhabited" parts of America and about the types of waters available. There is no response by Bartram so we don't know if he knew of the Yello...
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