List of Drugs Carried in
a Civil War Medical Wagon
The
following list of drugs would have been carried in a Civil War
medical wagon per the Medical Department regulations and Appendix A
of the Supply list.
List of Drugs
carried in a Civil War Medical Wagon
See the
1861 Revised Army Supply Table list of drugs for
field and hospital, which is in Latin, as are the
labels for the various containers.
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acetate lead
alcohol
alcoholic extract of
belladonna
alum
aromatic spirit of
ammonia
aromatic sulphuric
acid
bicarbonate potassa
bicarbonate soda
blistering cerate
blue mass
calomel
camphor
carbonate ammonia
castor oil
cerate of cantharides
chlorate of potassa
chlorate potassa
chlorinated solution
of soda
citrate iron and
quinia
citrine ointment
collodion
compound cathartic
pills
compound extract of
colocynth
copaiba
creosote
croton oil
Dover's powder
extract of belladonna
fluid extract
cinchona (aromatic)
fluid extract ginger
fluid extract ipecac
fluid extract of
aconite root
fluid extract of
cinchona, aromatic
fluid extract of
colchicum seed
fluid extract of
ginger
fluid extract of
ipecac
fluid extract seneka
Fowler's solution,
fused nitrate silver
glycerin
ground cayenne pepper
Hoffman's anodyne
iodide of iron
iodide of potassium
iodide polassium
ipecac
laudanum
mercurial ointment,
mercury with chalk
morphia
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nitrate of silver
(crystals)
nutmegs
oil of turpentine
olive oil
paregoric
permanganate of
potassa
pills of camphor
pills of compound
extract of colocynth
pills of opium
pills of sulphate of
quinia
powdered compound
extract colcoynth.
powdered gum Arabic
powdered ipecac
powdered opium
powdered Rochelle
salt
powdered squill
powdered subsulphate
iron
powdered tartaric
acid
pure chloroform
pure glycerin
purified chloroform
resin cerate
Rochelle salt, 16 oz.
simple cerate
solution chloride
zinc
solution of ammonia
solution of chloride
of zinc
solution of
chlorinate of soda
solution of
persulphate of iron.
spirit of nitrous
ether
strong alcohol
stronger ether (for
anaesthesia)
stronger ether
subnitrate bismuth
sulphate cinchona
sulphate magnesia
sulphate of copper
sulphate of morphia
sulphate of quinine
sulphate zinc
sweet spirit of nitre
syrup of squill
tannic acid
tartar emetic
tincture chloride of
iron
tincture of opium
whiskey
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(Note:
In 1856 Edward Robinson Squibb founded a pharmaceutical company in
Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to the production of consistently pure
medicines. In 1895 Squibb passed most of the responsibility for
managing the firm to his sons, Charles and Edward. The company
became known as E.R. Squibb & Sons. So, any Squibb products used in
the Civil War will NOT have '& Sons' on the label.)
U. S. Army
Hospital Department pannier label by Squibb
In a
Civil War Squibb pannier various anesthetics were labeled:
Chloroform was labeled:
CHLOROFORMUM PURIFICATUM. (chloroform) and packaged in twelve fluid
ounces
Ether was labeled:
SPIRITUS AETHERIS COMPOSITUS. (compound spirits of ether) packaged
in four fluid ounces) or as SPIRITUS FRUMENTI. (spirits of nitric
ether) Twenty-four fluid ounces
Morphine was labeled:
LIQUOR MORPHIAE SULPHATIS. (morphine sulphate solution) Sixteen
grains to the fluid ounce, four fluid ounces)
Opium was labeled: PILLS
OF CAMPHOR AND OPIUM. Twenty dozen; PILULAE OPII. (opium pills)
Sixty dozen; PULVIS IPECAC: ET OPII. (powder of ipecac and opium) In
five gram pills, thirty dozen; TINCTURA OPII. (tincture of opium;
laudanum) Six fluid ounces
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