Civil War pharmacy
Subtitle: a history of drugs, drug supply and provision, and therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy
By: Michael A. Flannery.
Series: Pharmaceutical heritage
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Products Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Pharmacy -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Medicine, Military -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Pharmacy -- history -- United States; History of Medicine, 19th Cent. -- United States; Military Medicine -- history -- United States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care
Description: The first comprehensive examination of pharmaceutical practice and drug provision during the Civil War. The author examines the drugs that were used, who provided and prepared them, and how they were supplied--by both the Union and the Confederacy--during the Civil War. In addition, six appendixes cover items ranging from that era's Standard Supply Table to a Materia Medica for the South to common prescriptions and basic syrups.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: Civil War pharmacy and medicine : comparisons and contexts; title: The state of pharmacy in America, 1861; title: Angels of mercy : women and Civil War pharmacy; title: The principals : medical purveyors and hospital stewards; title: The supplies : drug distribution and manufacturing; title: The medicines : a military materia medica and therapeutics; title: The remedies of choice : calomel and quinine; title: Administration; title: Fighting more with less; title: The materia medica.; title: Fighting more with less: an appraisal; title: The materia medica; title: Prescribing and dispensing in camp, hospital, and home; title: Wartime shortages take their toll.