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 ofMedicine, 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.