Pioneer physicians came into the wilderness that was to become Ohio in the 1780s to serve in the campaigns of Generals Josiah Harmar, Arthur St. Clair, and Anthony Wayne in their struggle against hostile Indians. Their philosophy of service was expressed by Doctor Joseph Strong at Fort St. Clair on August 22, 1793: “May the glowing virtues of each heart kindle a vestal flame in the soul, which shall shine like the light of peace on the haggard faces of distress and illuminate the mysteries of human existence.” In 1794 General Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers, and a year later the Treaty of Greene Ville brought peace to the frontier. In the Indian Wars, physicians served as commissioned officers—surgeons and surgeons’ mates—in the Army of the United States or with the Kentucky Volunteers, and their skill and devotion greatly aided Wayne’s campaign of 1793–1794. Doctor Richard Allison, a veteran of the American Revolution, was the senior surgeon in that campaign as well as in the earlier campaigns under Harmar and St. Clair.