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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.01557
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0046] September 17822 
Title Doctor's Report on Charles McCormick
Date 1 September 1782
Author Townsend, David (1753-1829)  
Document Type Military document
Content Description Report saying "The bearer Charles McCormick of Col. Hazen's Regt. now in Provost has the venereal disease which daily increases in malignity, and will continue to grow worse upon him while he remains in his present situation, where he cannot have the necessary remedies administered for his complaints." Signed by a Dr. [probably David] Townsend, Hospital Surgeon.
Subjects Revolutionary War  Military History  Continental Army  West Point (US Military Academy)  Health and Medical  Disease  Sexuality  Hospital  Drugs  
People McCormick, Charles (fl. 1782)  Townsend, David (1753-1829)  Hazen, Moses (1733-1803)  
Place written West Point, New York
Theme The American Revolution; Health & Medicine
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859