You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello, and thank you for joining this special edition of the American Revolution.

And we're trying something a little different today. Regular listeners of my

podcast are familiar with the long monologue format. But today that's going to

change. We have a guest speaker, Dr. Ronald S. Gibbs, who I'll be chatting with about the American

Revolution. Dr. Gibbs is a physician by trade and a medical researcher. He teaches at Stanford University in

California, but he is a Philadelphia native, having gone to Drexel University

and to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School where he also did his residency.

During medical school Dr. Gibbs received a traveling fellowship to study 18th Century Military Medicine in London.

He's also an avid collector of 18th century maps and serves as President of the California

Map Society. But we're most interested today in his

understanding of 18th century medicine and how it applied to the American Revolution. Dr. Gibbs is also the author of several books,

the one you may find most interesting,

is a novel of historical fiction called The Longshot, The Secret History of 1776.

We'll be talking more about that at the end of our discussion.

Dr. Gibbs also has his own website at Ronald S. Gibbs.com and so if you want to read more about him, you can check out his site.

One quick technical note, there will be a change in audio quality because our conversation had to be recorded over Zoom.

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