Emotions and Battlefield Medicine in the American Revolutionary War
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This essay examines the expression of emotional states by frontline medics in the American Revolutionary War to understand how doctors felt about their role as caregivers during the Canada Campaign of 1775–76 and the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition of 1779. The first section queries how surgeons managed the emotional strain of caring for wounded and sick soldiers during the Invasion of Quebec. The journals of two doctors who expressed resentment and grief towards the officer corps during the invasion, Samuel Fisk Merrick and Lewis Beebe, are considered. In the second section, the essay focuses on the role that expressions of enthusiasm, particularly what scholars term settler colonial optimism, played in during a total war. Here another pair of doctors, Jabez Campfield and Ebenezer Elmer, afford insight into the hope surrounding land-grabbing felt by medics during the army’s genocidal campaign in western New York and Pennsylvania.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it