Medicine supply Confederate

I first time. Union and Confederate medicines, supply, and therapeutics are brought together under one cover. Thoroughly researched and superbly written with an outstanding selection of appendixes, Flannery s book is a significant contribution to the history of the Civil War. The author has written a fine piece of scholarship. This book will hold its shelf fife for decades to come."... 

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... 

See, for example, Frank R. Freemon, Microbes and Minnie Balls An Annotated Bibliography of Civil War Medicine (Rutherford, NJ Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993). Freeman claims that Porcher s Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests contains nothing of modern medical importance (p. 112). Similarly, see Norman Franke, Medico-Pharmaceutical Conditions and Drug Supply in the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865, (Unpublished PhD dissertation. 

Only a few titles directly covering Civil War pharmacy are available. Most important of these are Norman Franke, The Medico-Pharmaceutical Conditions and Drug Supply in the Confederate States of America 1861-1865 (Unpublished PhD dissertation. University of Wisconsin, 1956) and George Winston Smith, Medicines for the Union Army The United States Army Laboratories During the Civil War (1962 reprinted, Binghamton,... 

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