Sources

Becker, Ann M. “Smallpox in Washington’s Army: Strategic Implications of the Disease during the American Revolutionary War.” The Journal of Military History 68, no. 2 (2004): 381-430. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3397473.

Blanco, Richard L. “AMERICAN ARMY HOSPITALS IN PENNSYLVANIA DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 48, no. 4 (1981): 347-68. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27772777.

Brandt, Susan. “”Getting into a Little Business”: Margaret Hill Morris and Women’s Medical Entrepreneurship during the American Revolution.” Early American Studies 13, no. 4 (Fall, 2015): 774-807. http://prx.library.gatech.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/1726468443?accountid=11107.

Cox, Jim. “That Quacking Sound in Colonial America.” CW Journal, Spring 2004. https://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Spring04/quackery.cfm#top

Dicey, William. An Abstract of A treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman’s pectoral drops: publish’d by vertue of the King’s Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great-Britain : and sold by William Dicey, and Benjamin Okell, the patentee, at their wholesale warehouse, against the South Door of Bow Church, in Bow Church yard, London. 1739. 2172024R. U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Collections. Bethesda, Maryland.

Jones, Gordon W. “Medicine in Virginia in Revolutionary Times.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 31, no. 3 (1976): 250-70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24623027.

Lang, Frances. “Witches, Midwives, Nurses.” Off Our Backs 3, no. 3 (1972): 27. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25771631.

Robinson, Martha K. “Medicine (Colonial Era).” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Rutgers University, 2016. https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/medicine-colonial-era/.

Sarnecky, Mary T. A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Strozier, Charles B. “MEDICINE: Benjamin Rush, Revolutionary Doctor.” The American Scholar 64, no. 3 (1995): 415-21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41212350.

Wilson, Joan Hoff, and Elizabeth F Defeis. “Role of American Women: An Historical Overview.” India International Centre Quarterly 5, no. 3 (1978): 163-73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23001287.

Title: Maternity

Artist: Benjamin West (American, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738–1820 London)

Date: 1784

Culture: American

Medium: Red chalk on thin off-white laid paper, mounted on off-white laid paper

Dimensions: 14 5/16 x 11 9/16 in. (36.4 x 29.4 cm)

Classification: Drawings

Credit Line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 2002

Accession Number: 2002.1

Design a site like this with WordPress.com
Get started