Examine a previously unexplored aspect of Civil War military
medicine! Here is the first comprehensive examination of
pharmaceutical practice and drug provision during the Civil War.
While numerous books have recounted the history of medicine in the
Civil War, little has been said about the drugs that were used, the
people who provided and prepared them, and how they were supplied.
This is the first book to provide detailed discussion of the role
of pharmacy. Among the topics covered in this essential volume are
the duties of medical purveyors, the role of the hospital steward,
and the nature and state of medical substances commonly used in the
1860s. This last subject would become a matter of considerable
controversy and ultimately cost William Hammond, the brilliant and
innovative Surgeon General, his career in the Union Army. This
richly detailed book shows why the South found drug provision
especially difficult and describes the valiant efforts of
Confederate sympathizers to run the Union blockade in order to
smuggle in their precious cargoes. You'll also learn about the
scurrilous privateers who were out to make a personal fortune at
the expense of both the Union and the Confederacy. In addition,
Civil War Pharmacy illuminates the systematic effort of
pharmacists, physicians, and botanists to derive from Southern
plants adequate substitutes for foreign substances that were
difficult, if not impossible, to obtain in the Confederacy. In this
painstakingly researched yet highly readable book, Michael A.
Flannery, co-author of the critically acclaimed America's
Botanico-Medical Movements: Vox Populi, examines all these topics
and more. In addition, he assesses the relative successes and
failures of the pharmaceutical aspect of health care at the
timesuccesses and failures that affected every man in army camps
and in the field. Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug
Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and
Confederacy includes photographs, helpful tables and figures, and
six appendices that make hard-to-find information easy to access
and understand. You'll find: the Standard Supply Table of
Indigenous Remedies (1863) Circular No. 6 from the Surgeon
General's Office (May 4, 1863), calling for the removal of calomel
and tartar emetic from the Supply Table instructions on reading and
filling a 19th century prescriptionwith a glossary of Latin phrases
and approximate measures, an excerpt from The Hospital Steward's
Manual, and more! a circular from the Confederate Medical
Purveyor's Office a Materia Medica for the South: A list of
medicinal substances from Porcher's Resources of the Southern
Fields and Forests common prescriptions of the Civil War period as
well as basic syrups of the era with monographs on their principal
substances: alcohol, cinchona, hydrargyrum (mercury), opium, and
quinine Packed with more information than can be listed here and,
just as importantly, presented in a reader-friendly manner, this is
a book that no one interested in Civil War historyor pharmacy
historyshould be without!
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