The Continental Army produced hundreds of ‘Hospital Returns’ to keep track of the numbers of sick and wounded soldiers across the different army hospitals. They also kept thorough lists of physicians, surgeons, surgeons’ mates and apothecaries working in the hospitals. Very few of these staff lists include nurses; in fact, only a handful of documents recording nurses’ names have survived. This collection highlights the most detailed of these.
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'List of the Nurses in the following wards' (27 July 1777), p.97, Jonathan Potts Papers, Collection 0521. Source: Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
List of nurses treating 'Germans in the General Hospital' (p.85), item 372, Jonathan Potts Papers, Collection 0521. Source: Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
'List of soldiers and attending nurses in the Court House hospital and in the Brick House Hospital at Reading, November 17, 1777, under the care of Francis Alison, Jr.' Source: Sturgis Collection, Historical Medical Library at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.