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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flannery, Michael A., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pharmaceutical Products Press, [2004]
Series:Pharmaceutical heritage.
Subjects:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Medical care.
Pharmacy > United States > History > 19th century.
Medicine, Military > United States > History > 19th century.
Pharmacy > history > United States.
History, 19th Century > United States.
Military Medicine > history > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Civil War pharmacy and medicine : comparisons and contexts
  • The state of pharmacy in America, 1861
  • Angels of mercy : women and Civil War pharmacy
  • The principals : medical purveyors and hospital stewards
  • The supplies : drug distribution and manufacturing
  • The medicines : a military materia medica and therapeutics
  • The remedies of choice : calomel and quinine
  • Administration
  • Fighting more with less
  • The materia medica.
  • Fighting more with less: an appraisal
  • The materia medica
  • Prescribing and dispensing in camp, hospital, and home
  • Wartime shortages take their toll.