Curing the Continental Army's IIIs: Declaration of Independence signer, noted physician, teacher, and political writer Benjamin Rush led the reform of many medical problems in the Continental Army.(History--Greatness Of The Founders)

Wartime hospitals are rarely the epitome of cleanliness and organization. The popular TV show M.A.S.H. fairly accurately depicted a Korean War field hospital where a group of doctors never got enough sleep, never had enough supplies, and never had enough help. If conditions were like this in the early 1950s, think what they must have been like about two centuries earlier, during the American War for Independence.

 
   I have made a discovery--a sure 
   and certain method of destroying 
   Howe's whole army without 
   powder or ball or without any 
   of the common implements of 
   death. Lead them through any of 
   the villages in Lancaster county 
   where we ...