Calomel | Medical Terms - American Civil War Forums
Ohio. Apr 23, 2013. #1. Calomel was a mercury based compound used extensively by both Union and Confederate doctors to treat a wide variety of medical conditions. It came in two main forms. "Blue pills" contained a mixture of mercury, rose water, licorice, powered rose, honey, and sugar. "Blue mass" was a lump of mercurous chloride, from which ...
Medicine in Limestone County,Alabama | Medical Care
Jan 10, 2016. #1. Frank Monroe Hudson,1852-1944,in his "Memories of Frank Monroe Hudson " described medicine used by his family in Limestone County,Alabama. I assume he used the same medicine during the Civil War. MEDICINES Most medicines raised in vegetable garden. Sage-Used to make sage tea for fevers,also to season meat.
Price Controls | Civil War Potpourri
Nov 12, 2016. Feb 16, 2021. #1. For a brief time the provost marshal for Richmond imposed price controls. Was any consideration given to imposing price controls across the confederacy to end speculation on food stuffs and cord wood . There was food available but it was unaffordable for increasing numbers of people.
Maggots and Rats: Nature's Surgeons During the Civil War
2017年1月25日 · After several ineffectual attempts to extirpate these pests, I succeeded perfectly by sprinkling calomel freely over the wounded surfaces. When the sloughs separated, clean granulating surfaces were presented, and by using balsam of copaiba, as a dressing, smearing the bandages with this oleo-resin, I could keep the wounds free of maggots.
Bayonet Wounds ln The Civil War. | Medical Care
2012年6月3日 · An ice bladder was applied to the head, and purgatives, with purgative enemata, were administered. On the 12th, the patient had some little appetite. The pulse was 44 and feeble. There had been no alvine evacuations, notwithstanding repeated doses of calomel and rhubarb, Epsom salt, podophyllin, with terebinthinate enemata.