Audience

The primary audience for the updated historic marker is medical historians and those interested in the history of American federal medical positions and pioneers of American standardized care. Secondary audiences for the updated historic marker include explorers of The Washington Papers and researchers of revolutionary war veterans and physicians.

Medical historians are a primary audience for the updated historic marker because said marker serves to improve understanding via an introduction of context and establishment of topic. Many may locate the unupdated marker and fail to acquire the inherent resource, that it failed to provide, simply due to the fact that the marker lacks aggregative properties in its goal to be concise. Given this, a wider scope of audience may be reached, especially medical historians, if the marker is expanded upon. The "Lititz Pharmacopeia" is a collection of medical procedures and formulas for commonly faced medical challenges introduced at a time when medicine was an imprecise business. In the context of medical history, certain people such as Dr. William Brown may be known as pioneers in various topics, and a further comprehension of the settings of the past may greatly advance the understandings of historians today.

Explorers of the Washington Papers may be a potential secondary audience to this updated marker given the fact that researchers of George Washington, beyond their interest in George Washington as a person, may also be interested in George Washington's affairs. The George Washington Papers include a number of letters exchanged between George Washington and Dr. William Brown, opening the possibility for various historians to explore such intricate manners in their affairs. Next, researchers of revolutionary war veterans and physicians may be a secondary audience to this updated marker because the marker's information is indirectly related to the research topic at hand. Although Dr. William Brown served as an American Revolutionary War, as a physician, he is not known for extraordinary acts of valor, despite the possibility for there being such examples. In this is the value of history; despite the fact that this marker may be updated for nuanced reasons, William Brown may have a past yet to be rediscovered in contemporary explorations.

By Ivan Zabello