MEDICAL MEN IN THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1775-1783
BY
LOUIS C. DUNCAN
LIEUT. COLONEL, U.S. ARMY, RETIRED
MEDICAL FIELD SERVICE SCHOOL
CARLISLE BARRACKS, PENNSYLVANIA
1931
By direction of the Secretary of War the matter contained herein is published as administrative information and is required for the proper transaction of the public business.
R.U. PATTERSON
The Surgeon General
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter I Medicine and Surgery in the Colonies
Chapter II Making of the Army. The Lexington Alarm
Chapter III Siege of Boston
Chapter IV The Canada Expedition, 1775-1776
Chapter V The New York Campaign of 1776
Chapter VI New Jersey Campaign
Chapter VII Reorganization of the Army
Chapter VIII The Campaign for Philadelphia, 1777
Chapter IX Burgoyne's Campaign, 1777
Chapter X 1778 -- Monmouth
Chapter XI Medical Director Shippen
Chapter XII The War in the South
Chapter XIII Medical Director John Cochran
Chapter XIV Yorktown
Chapter XV The End
Appendix A Losses
Appendix B List of Medical Men Who Took Part in the American Revolution