Medicines for the Union Army : The United States Army Laboratories During the Civil War

ISBN-13: 9780789009463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 214 str.

George Winston Smith

Opis

Brings to light the groundbreaking achievements of those working to preserve life during the Civil War. Explains the medical purveying system of the time and its problems, and documents the birth, growth, and achievements of the government's pharmaceutical laboratories at Astoria, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Describes the processes by

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Contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. The Medical Purveying System and Its Problems
• Chapter 2. The Beginnings of the Laboratories
• Chapter 3. Obstacles and Achievements at the Astoria Laboratory
• Chapter 4. Operations at the Philadelphia Laboratory
• Chapter 5. The Balance Sheet
• Appendix A: Materia Medica and Preparations on the U.S. Army Supply Table During the Civil War, Together with Constituent Drugs and Chemicals
• Appendix B: Contents of Autenrieth Medicine Wagon
• Appendix C: Contents of U.S. Army Medicine Pannier (Squibb)
• Notes
• Index

O autorze

Worthen, Dennis B; Higby, Greg