1775 JONES, John [American] (1729 – 1791)

Plain, concise, practical remarks, on the treatment of wounds and fractures; to which is added an appendix, on camp and military hospitals; principally designed for the use of young military surgeons in North America.

The first surgical work written by an American and printed in North America. Jones’s work was the accepted guide to surgical practice during the American Revolutionary War.

GMN 2155 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2755

1778 RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)

Directions for preserving the health of soldiers: recommended to the consideration of the officers of the Army of the United States. Published by order of the Board of War.

A reprint from the Philadelphia Packet, No. 284. The pamphlet was reprinted by the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance in Boston, 1865, for distribution to the Union soldiers.

GMN 2157 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2760

1789 –1793 RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)

Medical inquiries and observations. 2 vols.

Rush was considered the ablest American clinician of his time. He was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His many writings are distinguished for their classical st…

GMN 80 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1374

1823 THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)

A military journal during the American Revolutionary War, from 1775-1783…

The first American medical historian, Thacher gave the best contemporary account of medicine during the Revolutionary War, as well as an important history of the war in general. See No. 6710.

GMN 6584.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8495

1828 THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)

American medical biography. 2 vols.

Thacher was the first American medical historian. The above biography is a valuable source of information on the early medical history of the United States. Reprinted, New York, Da Capo Press, 1967.

GMN 6710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7814

1850 BECK, John Brodhead (1794 – 1851)

An historical sketch of the state of medicine in the American Colonies, from their first settlement to the period of the Revolution.

A pioneering historical interpretation of the development of medicine in the 13 colonies up to the American Revolution. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. This is the second, significantly expan…

GMN 10295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12486

1874 TONER, Joseph Meredith (1825 – 1896)

Contributions to the annals of medical progress and medical education in the United States before and during the War of Independence.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 6585 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8496

1930 –1933 BLANTON, Wyndham Bolling (1890 – 1960)

Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth (eighteenth, nineteenth) century. 3 vols.

GMN 6588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8498

1931 DUNCAN, Louis Casper (1869 – 1940)

Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.

Digital edition from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

GMN 9213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11394

1937 GIBSON, James Edgar; OTTO, Bodo (1711 – 1787)

Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.

Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.

GMN 8594 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10771

1949 GORDON, Maurice Bear (1916 – 2006)

Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.

GMN 6596 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8503

1968 BAYNE-JONES, Brig. Gen. Stanhope (1866 – 1970)

The evolution of preventive medicine in the United States Army, 1607–1939.

Available from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History, at this link.

GMN 7884 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10056

1973 CASH, Philip (1931 – 2005)

Medical men at the siege of Boston, April, 1775- April, 1776.

GMN 8621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10798

1978 GORDON, Maurice Bear (1916 – 2006)

Naval and maritime medicine during the American revolution.

GMN 2188.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1367

1980 CASH, Philip (1931 – 2005); ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000); CHRISTANSON, Eric H.

Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.

A well-illustrated collection of essays covering medicine in Massachusetts but also applicable in some cases to the history of medicine and surgery throughout the American colonies.

GMN 6596.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8507

1981 GILLETT, Mary Caperton (1929 – )

The [United States] Army Medical Department, 1775-1818.

GMN 2188.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1369

1998 REISS, Oscar

Medicine and the American Revolution: How diseases and their treatments affected the colonial army.

GMN 10806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13002

2006 FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790); FINGER, Stanley

Dr. Franklin's medicine

The history of medicine, and Franklin's involvements in it, within the context of his life and career.

GMN 8596 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10773