Smith, George Winston

George Winston Smith, Medicines for the Union Army The United States Army Laboratories During the Civil Whr(1962 reprint, Binghamton, NY Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2001). 

George Winston Smith, Medicines for the Union Army (1962 reprinted. New York Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2001), p. 39 see also Joseph Howland Bill s official report to Surgeon General Hammond reprinted in George Winston Smith, ed., The Squibb Laboratory in 1863, Journal of the History of Medicine Allied Sciences 13 (1958) 382-394. 

George Winston Smith calls Maisch s work in the Squibb plant, the most valuable preparation that Maisch could possibly have received for his position in the government laboratory see his Medicines for the Union Army, p. 73. 

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are Norman Franke, The Medico-Pharmaceutical Conditions and Drug Supply in the Confederate States of America 1861-1865 (Unpublished PhD dissertation.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,... 

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). 

Winston Smith, the main character in George Orwell s apocalyptic novel 1984, perceived while reading the secret Brotherhood s book that the best books are those that tell you what you know already. If you are encountering the field of molecular organic materials for the first time and do not want to contradict Orwell, you are invited to read the book you are holding in your hands more than once. If you are an expert in the field I hope you will discover new and perhaps unexpected issues. 

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