Bonsall, Spencer

Thirty-two Letters of Spencer Bonsall to his wife Ellen, May 6 through June 22, 1862, and December 4 through March 26, 1863, Reynolds Historical Library, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham. 

Letter from Spencer Bonsall to Ellen Bonsall, February 6, 1862. For a more complete account of Bonsall and his letters, see Michael A. Flannery, The Life of a Hospital Steward The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall, Pharmacy in History 42 (2000) 87-98. 

NY Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2001). As part of the centennial anniversary of the Civil War, the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy featured a symposium titled Pharmacy Looks Back at the Civil War Years. Participants included George Winston Smith, Ernst Steib, J. Hampton Hoch, and Norman Franke, and three of the four papers were published in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 1(12) (1961) 763-774. More recently see a brief but informative and well-referenced article by Guy Hasegawa, Pharmacy in the American Civil War, American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy 57 (2001) 475-489. This has since been reprinted as part of a special Civil War issue of Pharmacy in History 42 (2000) that also contains Michael A. Flarmery, The Life of a Hospital Steward The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall (87-97) and Maurice Albin, The Use of Anesthetics During the Civil War, 1861-1865 (99-114). 

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