Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy Contributor(s): Flannery, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0789015021 ISBN-13: 9780789015020 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2004 Annotation: Here is the first comprehensive examination of pharmaceutical practice and drug provision during the Civil War. In this painstakingly researched yet highly readable book, Michael A. Flannery, co-author of the critically acclaimed America's Botanico-Medical Movements: Vox Populi, examines the drugs that were used, who provided and prepared them, and how they were supplied--by both the Union and the Confederacy--during the Civil War. Appendices cover items from that era's Standard Supply Table to a Materia Medica for the South to common prescriptions and basic syrups. This is a book that no one with an interest in Civil War history or pharmacy history should be without! To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Medical | History - Medical | Pharmacy |
Dewey: 973.775 |
LCCN: 2003014893 |
Series: Pharmaceutical Heritage |
Physical Information: 1.03" H x 6.24" W x 8.36" (1.24 lbs) 374 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
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Publisher Description: 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. This richly detailed book shows why the South found drug provision especially difficult and describes the valiant efforts of Confederate sympathizers to run the Union blockade in order to smuggle in their precious cargoes. You'll also learn about the scurrilous privateers who were out to make a personal fortune at the expense of both the Union and the Confederacy. In addition, Civil War Pharmacy illuminates the systematic effort of pharmacists, physicians, and botanists to derive from Southern plants adequate substitutes for foreign substances that were difficult, if not impossible, to obtain in the Confederacy. In this painstakingly researched yet highly readable book, Michael A. Flannery, co-author of the critically acclaimed America's Botanico-Medical Movements: Vox Populi, examines all these topics and more. In addition, he assesses the relative successes and failures of the pharmaceutical aspect of health care at the timesuccesses and failures that affected every man in army camps and in the field. Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy includes photographs, helpful tables and figures, and six appendices that make hard-to-find information easy to access and understand. You'll find:
Packed with more information than can be listed here and, just as importantly, presented in a reader-friendly manner, this is a book that no one interested in Civil War historyor pharmacy historyshould be without! |