Medicine+on+the+Field

Doctors of the American Revoloution
 * What-** How doctors and field medics performed surgery during battles
 * When-** Over the course of the American Revolution
 * Where-** The bloody battles of the Revolution
 * Why-** Soldiers in the Army
 * How-** I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure that doctors just amputated faulty limbs.


 * --What I want to know (Research Questions)--**
 * Who-** What did it take to become a field medic?
 * What-** What tools and methods did they use for surgery? What if the soldier didnt need amputation?
 * When-** When did doctors know if the soldier needed surgery?
 * Where-** Where did the doctors take soldiers before surgery?
 * Why-** Why did the doctors facilitate such bloody methods for surgery?
 * How-** How did the doctors use the tools for surgery?

Who-** I will ask teachers, librarians, and any knowledgeable adults when gathering information.
 * --My research strategy--
 * What-** Websites run by experts on the topic of the American Revolution, as well as databases, books, and encyclopedias.
 * When-** During class and out of school, only if needed
 * Where-** The CTMS Library
 * How-** **I'**ll use my thesis statement and research questions to dig up information for my Wiki


 * Key words-** "doctor" "surgery" "early america" "amputation" "medic" "battle" "heal" "18th century doctoring methods" and other variations of these words.

Draft Doctors and Field Medics influenced the American Revolution by saving many lives and curing many wounds with the knowledge of diseases and the many tools they had at their disposal. The new era of doctoring began in 1316 with a book written by Guy de Chuliac. It was called Chuirgia Magna, which translated to Great Surgery. This told doctors how to treat sprains and fractured by using various tools. This evolved into the more secure and well shaped methods of surgery that were implemented in the American Revolution.

Some diseases were lethal, and others were possible to overcome. An example of a somewhat lethal disease is Smallpox. Some put the death rate to small pox at 25%, while some virulent strains were approaching a 40% rate. Fenn puts the overall rate of death at this time at 30%. Just recently we've learned that there was a childhood form of smallpox, like chicken pox, that wasn't as deadly, but it did produce an immunity to smallpox later in life. (Wellness Directory of Minnesota) I think that Smallpox was a disease that was feared, but not feared. Smallpox only killed roughly 30% of a time, so its pretty much like a 1/3 chance that you will die.

There were many different perspectives on methods of surgery. One very well known view was of John Browns. John Brown expounded his view that there were only two diseases, sthenic (strong) and asthenic ( weak ), and two treatments , stimulant and sedative ; his chief remedies were alcohol and opium. (Medicine in the 18th century) Jo hn Brown concluded that there are two kinds of ailments and two ways to treat them. His view was one of the many that made a change to the history of medicine.

A common, yet painful condition is a dislocated shoulder. Nowadays, a doctor will give you an anasthetic to numb the grueling pain from popping a shoulder back into place. In the 18th century, doctors just popped a patient's shoulder back into place without a sedative. An entry from Domestic Medicine (a 17th century article sent to the King of England) explains this method. The usual method of reducing dislocations of the shoulder is to seat the patient upon a low stool, and to cause an assistant to hold his body so that it may not give way to the extension, while another lays hold of the arm a little above the elbow, and gradually extends it. The operator then puts a napkin under the patient's arm, and causes it to be tied behind his own neck; by this, while a sufficient extention is made, he lifts up the head of the bone, and with his hand directs it into its proper place. (Domestic Medicine)

Doctoring is becoming more sophisticated day by day and new methods have been invented at a constant rate. Healing of wounds, diseases, dislocations and fractures have all evolved. Doctors played a key role in the American Revolution and without them, America could have lost the war, along with thousands of brave souls.

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