Военная история / Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy

Издательство: Pharmaceutical Products Press
Серия: Pharmaceutical Heritage
Автор: Michael A. Flannery
Название: Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy
Язык: английский
Год издания: 2004
Количество страниц: 364
ISBN: 0789015013
Формат: pdf (e-book)
Размер: 24 мб

Examine a previously unexplored aspect of Civil War military medicine!
Here is the first comprehensive examination of pharmaceutical practice and drug provision during the Civil War. While numerous books have recounted the history of medicine in the Civil War, little has been said about the drugs that were used, the people who provided and prepared them, and how they were supplied. This is the first book to provide detailed discussion of the role of pharmacy. Among the topics covered in this essential volume are the duties of medical purveyors, the role of the hospital steward, and the nature and state of medical substances commonly used in the 1860s. This last subject would become a matter of considerable controversy and ultimately cost William Hammond, the brilliant and innovative Surgeon General, his career in the Union Army.