Civil War pharmacy: a history of drugs, drug supply and provision, and therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy

Abstract

* Foreword * Acknowledgments * Part I: Setting the Stage--Civilian Aspects of Pharmacy During the Civil War * Chapter 1. Civil War Pharmacy and Medicine: Comparisons and Contexts * Historiography of Civil War Pharmacy * American Pharmacy and Medicine at Midcentury * Pharmacy and Medicine in the Civil War: An Overview * Role of Disease * Chapter 2. State of Pharmacy in America, 1861 * Education * Manufacturing * Community Practice * Southern Medicine and Pharmacy * Summary * Chapter 3. Angels of Mercy: Women and Civil War Pharmacy * Woman's Role: Call to Plain Positive * United States Sanitary Commission * Women in the South * Women and Civil War Pharmacy: An Appraisal * Part II: Pharmacy in the Union * Chapter 4. Principals: Medical Purveyors and Hospital Stewards * Official Duties and Responsibilities of Medical Purveyors * Official Duties and Responsibilities of Hospital Stewards * Rank and Status of Medical Purveyors and Hospital Stewards * Chapter 5. Supplies: Drug Distribution and Manufacturing * Drug Acquisition and Supply: Organizational and Operational Aspects * Free Enterprise Joins the War: Civilian Suppliers * Laboratories * Chapter 6. Medicines: A Military Materia Medica and Therapeutics * Ailments * Substances * Prescribing and Dispensing in Camp and Hospital * Unit and Patient Case Studies * Chapter 7. Remedies of Choice: Calomel and Quinine * Mastodon Unharnessed * Quinine: Always and Everywhere * Quinine Market * Summary * Part III: Pharmacy in the Confederacy * Chapter 8. Administration * Civilian Aspects of Confederate Pharmacy Administration * Medical Purveyors and Hospital Stewards * Administrative Aspects of Supply and Drug Provision * Chapter 9. Fighting More with Less * Disease in the Confederacy * Blockade * Supply Table * Laboratories * Fighting More with Less: An Appraisal * Chapter 10. Materia Medica * Prescribing and Dispensing in Camp, Hospital, and Home * Wartime Shortages Take Their Toll * Medicines of the South: An Appraisal * Epilogue. The Consciousness of Duty Faithfully Performed: An Appraisal of Civil War Pharmacy * Impact of the War * Conclusion * Appendix A. Union and Confederate Standard Supply Tables * Appendix B. Circular No. 6 * Appendix C. How to Read and Fill a Civil War Prescription * A Glossary of Latin Phrases and Approximate Measures * Excerpt from Hospital Steward's Manual, 1862 * Appendix D. Circular No. 3 * Appendix E. A Materia Medica for the South: A Selected List of Medicinal Substances from Porcher's Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests * Appendix F. Some Common Prescriptions of the Civil War Period Including the Basic Syrups with Monographs on the Principal Substances: Alcohol, Cinchona, Hydrargyrum (Mercury), Opium, and Quinine * Common Prescriptions * Basic Syrups * Alcohol * Hydrargyrum (Mercury) * Cinchona * Opium * Quinine and Its Salts * Notes * Bibliographical Essay * Index * Reference Notes Included