Tag Archives: Surgeon General

African American contract doctors in the military

May 28, 2020

Edward McSweegan Kingston, Rhode Island, United States   African American Soldiers in Cuba, 1898, Wikipedia In the spring of 1898, the United States rushed into a war with Spain but lacked adequate troops, training, weapons, transport, supplies, food, landing craft, and medical personnel. One deficit that could be corrected before the shooting started was the […]

Hammond, Lincoln, and the emergence of American neurology

April 17, 2019

Jack Riggs Morgantown, West Virginia, United States   Surgeon General William A. Hammond. Public domain. All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts. – William Shakespeare   Shakespeare’s words describe the extraordinary life of […]