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RG1.B10.F16 - Document
This folder contains a copy of the pension application of Eliab Egglestone W27749 describing his service during the Revolutioanry War and his time at Valley Forge and the hospital at Yellow Springs with small pox 1777-1778.
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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.F25 - Magazine article
These articles detail the smallpox dilemma of the 18th Century, early innoculation and vaccination, and descriptions of break outs of the disease.
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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.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.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.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.F31 - Manuscript
This manuscript on smallpox inoculations of the Continental Army at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War was written by Albigence Waldo at the end of his copy of Samuel Sharpe's "A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery, with a Description and Representation of the Instruemnts Used in Performing Them, London, 1769. He describes the inoculation stating that the success was remarkable and few died. He also describes inoculating Indian soldier...
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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.F11 - Excerpts
This folder contains excerpts from the book "Private Yankee Doodle" (author unknown at this time). This Connecticut soldier was ill and assigned to a company in Downingtown. The narrative gives the best description of the daily life of one soldier during the Revolutionary War. It includes tales of plundering for food and beverage.
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RG1.B4.F5 - Excerpts
This folder contains various excerpts regarding the Revolutionary War Encampment at Yellow Springs. It includes correspondence from General George Washington, entries in the Orderly Book at Valley Forge, General Weedon's Orderly Book entries, General Muhlenberg's Orderly Book, and parts of The War of the Revolution by Christopher Ward.
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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.F14 - Biography
This folder contains biographical information on Revolutionary War physician Dr. Bodo Otto. It includes photographs of him and his second wife, images of German sites where Dr. Otto lived, worked and attended medical school, obituaries of family members, certification of surgical skills, correspondence and a general overview of Dr. Otto's career.
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RG1.B6.F17 - Genealogy
This notebook is the genealogy of the Otto family. Ancestor Dr. Bodo Otto was a well-respected physician and surgeon during the Revolutionary War and managed the hospital at Yellow Springs. Living in Philadelphia and New Jersey, he retired in Reading, PA.
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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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RG2.B1.F37 - Journal article
This is a photocopy of an article that appeared in "Philadelphia Medicine" published semimonthly by the Philadelphia County Medical Society. The history of Yellow Springs is given with a segment on the Yellow Springs Spa. The treatment at the spa is described in the words of John Knight who visited the spa in 1847.
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RG2.B2.F12 - Booklet
This booklet was written to preserve the story of West Pikeland for its citizens. It details the West Pikeland community focusing on the village of Yellow Springs (Chester Springs). The Revolutionary War Hospital is described and the Yellow Springs Spa is described as well. The churches, farms, mills, mines, and taverns are listed. The railroad lines, roadways, trees, Underground Railroad, and hunting and fishing are discussed. A view of ev...
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