“A sick force can’t fight.” — Dr. Dale Smith, Uniformed Services University Historian.
During the American Revolution, military medicine was already doing more than treating the wounded, it was keeping the Continental Army in the fight.
In the second episode of the Military Medicine 250 video podcast, Peter J. Graves, from Military Health System Strategic Communication and Public Affairs, sits down with Dr. Dale Smith, military medical historian from the Uniformed Services University. Smith discusses George Washington’s decision to inoculate the Continental Army against smallpox at Valley Forge, the creation of the Army’s hospital department, and the doctors who advanced medical knowledge including Benjamin Rush, John Warren and William Shippen. Their efforts established lessons about prevention, leadership and caring for troops that continue to resonate 250 years later.
| Date Taken: | 08.27.2026 |
| Date Posted: | 08.27.2026 11:29 |
| Category: | Video Productions |
| Video ID: | 1020861 |
| VIRIN: | 260827-O-TR188-6162 |
| Filename: | DOD_111930479 |
| Length: | 00:09:52 |
| Location: | US |
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