Dr. John Jones

John Jones (1729 – June 23, 1791) was an 18th-century physician who wrote the book Plain, Concise, Practical Remarks on the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures.

Jones was born in Jamaica, Queens County, New York. He graduated from Reims University in 1751 with a degree in medicine. Among others Jones studied medicine under Percival Pott. Jones served as a surgeon in the French and Indian War. After the war he wrote his guide on wound treatment and served as a professor of medicine at King's College, which is today Columbia University.

In his book, first published in 1775, Jones recommended such actions as removing bullets as soon as possible and cleaning wounds.

In 1777, Jones was appointed to the New York State Senate but resigned in February 1778, due to ill health. In 1780, he removed to Philadelphia and became the physician of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.

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http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20083557.pdf The Early Welsh Quakers and Their Emigration to Pennsylvania p.411

It is an interesting fact which I have noted elsewhere, that

for twenty-five years the only physicians of Philadelphia

and its vicinity were Welshmen. It is also a fact of which

as Welshmen we are proud, that the physician of George

Washington, Dr. John Jones, was the great-grandson of

Dr. Thomas Wynne, who was himself the physician of Wil

liam Penn ; so that the Founder of our State and " the

Father of his country" owed their lives, humanly speaking,

to the care and skill of Welsh physicians. Had this skill

and care failed the one amid the pestilence on " The Wel

come" or the other in the perils of the Revolution, who can