"Did the British unleash biological warfare against Washington’s troops?" David Jones featured in The Harvard Gazette

David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, is featured in the Harvard Gazette article "Did the British unleash biological warfare against Washington’s troops?" to highlight his co-authored article in the New England Journal of Medicine that examines the role of physicians, medicine, disease during the Revolutionary War. The feature is a part of the Gazette's series to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Emphasizing the role of physicians in containing the spread of smallpox in the Continental Army, Professor Jones says "In the Revolution, physicians were relatively more prominent than they have been in subsequent moments of American history."

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