Hospital stewards Confederate

In terms of pharmacy, the backbone of supply, distribution, and compounding of medicines resided, as with the U.S. Army, with the purveying department and hospital stewards. Stewards were the foot soldiers of pharmaceutical care, compounding prescriptions and delivering medicines directly to the men under their charge. They were authorized by act of Confederate Congress on May 16, 1861, to be... 

Yet Apperson s diary record covering the entire period of the Civil War gives the historian a unique opportunity to view the conflict from the perspective of a Confederate hospital steward, and thus witness firsthand pharmaceutical conditions as they existed at least for the Army of Northern Virginia. The first thing that becomes obvious is... 

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