Theories were not terribly advanced from those of ancient times. The Long Shot: The Secret History of 1776 is available from Amazon as an ebook or paperback. What was medical technology like during the Revolutionary War? A number of the treatments and techniques stayed with me all these years, and I incorporated them into my book. I won a history of medicine prize and got to go to London one summer to study medicine of the American Revolution, as seen from the British viewpoint.
The two interests converged when I was in medical school. Oh, I suppose my interest in history - I grew up in Philadelphia, the center of early American history - and then along came my interest in medicine when I was an undergraduate. Which came first, your interest in history or your interest in medicine?
George Washington is shot in the chest, sustaining a potentially fatal wound early in the Revolutionary War. The book is set in an alternate reality in which Gen.
Gibbs talked with me about his affinity for this era of American history and his new self-published novel, The Long Shot: The Secret History of 1776. He has read extensively on the Revolutionary War, researched its grisly medical technology and collected maps from the period. If Ronald Gibbs, MD, could step into an alternate timeline, he would trade his research and teaching in obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford Medicine to become a historian specializing in 18 th century American history.
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