Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and ConfederacyExamine 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 time—successes 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:
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Contents
Civil War Pharmacy and Medicine Comparisons and Contexts | xv |
American Pharmacy and Medicine at Midcentury | 4 |
An Overview | 13 |
The Role of Disease | 18 |
The State of Pharmacy in America 1861 | 21 |
Community Practice | 29 |
Southern Medicine and Pharmacy | 37 |
Summary | 43 |
Medical Purveyors and Hospital Stewards | 169 |
Administrative Aspects of Supply and Drug Provision | 175 |
Fighting More with Less | 183 |
The Blockade | 188 |
The Supply Table | 198 |
The Laboratories | 200 |
An Appraisal | 204 |
The Materia Medica | 207 |
Angels of Mercy Women and Civil War Pharmacy | 45 |
The United States Sanitary Commission | 49 |
Women in the South | 58 |
An Appraisal | 66 |
The Principals Medical Purveyors and Hospital Stewards | 73 |
Rank and Status of Medical Purveyors and Hospital Stewards | 82 |
The Supplies Drug Distribution and Manufacturing | 87 |
Civilian Suppliers | 94 |
The Laboratories | 105 |
The Medicines A Military Materia Medica and Therapeutics | 111 |
The Substances | 114 |
Prescribing and dispensing in Camp and Hospital | 120 |
Unit and Patient Case Studies | 131 |
The Remedies of Choice Calomel and Quinine | 139 |
The Mastodon Unharnessed | 140 |
Always and Everywhere | 152 |
The Quinine Market | 159 |
Summary | 164 |
Administration | 167 |
Wartime Shortages Take Their Toll | 216 |
An Appraisal | 220 |
The Consciousness of Duty Faithfully Performed An Appraisal of Civil War Pharmacy | 227 |
Conclusion | 232 |
Union and Confederate Standard Supply Tables | 235 |
Circular No 6 | 253 |
How to Read and Fill a Civil War Prescription | 255 |
Circular No 3 | 269 |
A Materia Medica for the South A Selected List of Medicinal Substances from Porchers Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests | 273 |
Some Common Prescriptions of the Civil War Period Including the Basic Syrups with Monographs on the Principal Substances Alcohol Cinchona Hy... | 277 |
Alcohol | 283 |
Cinchona | 285 |
Opium | 286 |
Quinine and Its Salts | 287 |
Notes | 291 |
Bibliographical Essay | 335 |
Index | 345 |
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