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Yesterday I received my copy of _Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy_, by Michael A. Flannery. New York: Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2004. 0-7890-1502-1 (paperback). Very nice!
Here's the detailed table of contents, to whet your appetite:
Part I: Setting the Stage--Civilian Aspects of Pharmacy During the Civil War
Chapter 1. Civil War Pharmacy and Medicine: Comparisons and Contexts
--The Historiography of Civil War Pharmacy
--American Pharmacy and Medicine at Midcentury
--Pharmacy and Medicine in the Civil War: An Overview
--The Role of Disease
Chapter 2. The State of Pharmacy in America, 1861
--Education
--Manufacturing
--Community Practice
--Southern Medicine and Pharmacy
--Summary
Chapter 3. Angels of Mercy: Women and Civil War Pharmacy
--The Woman's Role: "A Call to Plain Positive Duty"
--The United States Sanitary Commission
--Women in the South
--Women and Civil War Pharmacy: An Appraisal
Part II: Pharmacy in the Union
Chapter 4. The Principals: Medical Purveyors
--Official Duties and Responsibilities of Medical Purveyors
--Official Duties and Responsibilities of Hospital Stewards
--Rank and Status of Medical Purveyors and Hospital Stewards
Chapter 5. The Supplies: Drug Distribution and Manufacturing
--Drug Acquisition and Supply: Organizational and Operational Aspects
--Free Enterprise Joins the War: Civilian Suppliers
--The Laboratories
Chapter 6. The Medicines: A Military Materia Medica and Therapeutics
--The Ailments
--The Substances
--Prescribing and Dispensing in Camp and Hospital
--Unit and Patient Case Studies
Chapter 7. The Remedies of Choice: Calomel and Quinine
--The Mastodon Unharnessed
--Quinine: "Always and Everywhere"
--The Quinine Market
--Summary
Part III: Pharmacy in the Confederacy
Chapter 8. Administration
--Civilian Aspects of Confederate Pharmacy Administration
--Medical Purveyors and Hospital Stewards
--Administrative Aspects of Supply and Drug Provision
Chapter 9. Fighting More with Less
--Disease in the Confederacy
--The Blockade
--The Supply Table
--The Laboratories
--Fighting More with Less: An Appraisal
Chapter 10. The Materia Medica
--Prescribing and Dispensing in Camp, Hospital and Home
--Wartime Shortages Take Their Toll
--The Medicines of the South: An Appraisal
Epilogue: "The Consciousness of Duty Faithfully Performed": An Appraisal of Civil War Pharmacy
--The Impact of the War
--Conclusion
Appendix A. Union and Confederate Standard Supply Tables
Appendix B. Circular No. 6
Appendix C. How to Read and Fill a Civil War Prescription
--A Glossary of Latin Phrases and Approximate Measures
--Excerpt from _The Hospital Steward's Manual_, 1862
Appendix D. Circular No. 3
Appendix E. A Materia Medica for the South: A Selected List of Medicinal Substances from Porcher's _Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests_
Appendix F. Some Common Prescriptions of the Civil War Period Including the Basic Syrups with Monographs on the Principal Substances: Alcohol, Cinchona, Hydrargyrum (Mercury), Opium, and Quinine
--Common Prescriptions
--Basic Syrups
--Alcohol
--Hydrargyrum (Mercury)
--Cinchona
--Opium
--Quinine and Its Salts
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index
I'd say this is a "must have" for anyone pursuing a medical-related impression.
Vicki Betts
vbetts@gower.net
Here's the detailed table of contents, to whet your appetite:
Part I: Setting the Stage--Civilian Aspects of Pharmacy During the Civil War
Chapter 1. Civil War Pharmacy and Medicine: Comparisons and Contexts
--The Historiography of Civil War Pharmacy
--American Pharmacy and Medicine at Midcentury
--Pharmacy and Medicine in the Civil War: An Overview
--The Role of Disease
Chapter 2. The State of Pharmacy in America, 1861
--Education
--Manufacturing
--Community Practice
--Southern Medicine and Pharmacy
--Summary
Chapter 3. Angels of Mercy: Women and Civil War Pharmacy
--The Woman's Role: "A Call to Plain Positive Duty"
--The United States Sanitary Commission
--Women in the South
--Women and Civil War Pharmacy: An Appraisal
Part II: Pharmacy in the Union
Chapter 4. The Principals: Medical Purveyors
--Official Duties and Responsibilities of Medical Purveyors
--Official Duties and Responsibilities of Hospital Stewards
--Rank and Status of Medical Purveyors and Hospital Stewards
Chapter 5. The Supplies: Drug Distribution and Manufacturing
--Drug Acquisition and Supply: Organizational and Operational Aspects
--Free Enterprise Joins the War: Civilian Suppliers
--The Laboratories
Chapter 6. The Medicines: A Military Materia Medica and Therapeutics
--The Ailments
--The Substances
--Prescribing and Dispensing in Camp and Hospital
--Unit and Patient Case Studies
Chapter 7. The Remedies of Choice: Calomel and Quinine
--The Mastodon Unharnessed
--Quinine: "Always and Everywhere"
--The Quinine Market
--Summary
Part III: Pharmacy in the Confederacy
Chapter 8. Administration
--Civilian Aspects of Confederate Pharmacy Administration
--Medical Purveyors and Hospital Stewards
--Administrative Aspects of Supply and Drug Provision
Chapter 9. Fighting More with Less
--Disease in the Confederacy
--The Blockade
--The Supply Table
--The Laboratories
--Fighting More with Less: An Appraisal
Chapter 10. The Materia Medica
--Prescribing and Dispensing in Camp, Hospital and Home
--Wartime Shortages Take Their Toll
--The Medicines of the South: An Appraisal
Epilogue: "The Consciousness of Duty Faithfully Performed": An Appraisal of Civil War Pharmacy
--The Impact of the War
--Conclusion
Appendix A. Union and Confederate Standard Supply Tables
Appendix B. Circular No. 6
Appendix C. How to Read and Fill a Civil War Prescription
--A Glossary of Latin Phrases and Approximate Measures
--Excerpt from _The Hospital Steward's Manual_, 1862
Appendix D. Circular No. 3
Appendix E. A Materia Medica for the South: A Selected List of Medicinal Substances from Porcher's _Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests_
Appendix F. Some Common Prescriptions of the Civil War Period Including the Basic Syrups with Monographs on the Principal Substances: Alcohol, Cinchona, Hydrargyrum (Mercury), Opium, and Quinine
--Common Prescriptions
--Basic Syrups
--Alcohol
--Hydrargyrum (Mercury)
--Cinchona
--Opium
--Quinine and Its Salts
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index
I'd say this is a "must have" for anyone pursuing a medical-related impression.
Vicki Betts
vbetts@gower.net
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