The hospital steward's manual : for the instruction of hospital stewards, wardmasters, and attendants, in their several duties : prepared in strict accordance with existing regulations, and the customs of service in the armies of the United States of America, and rendered authoritative by order of the Surgeon-General / by Joseph Janvier Woodward.

  • Woodward, Joseph Janvier, 1833-1884.
Date:
1862
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Credit: The hospital steward's manual : for the instruction of hospital stewards, wardmasters, and attendants, in their several duties : prepared in strict accordance with existing regulations, and the customs of service in the armies of the United States of America, and rendered authoritative by order of the Surgeon-General / by Joseph Janvier Woodward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE HOSPITAL STEWARD'S MANUAL. CHAPTER I. Hospital Stewards. SECTION I.—THE RANK OF HOSPITAL STEWARDS. The hospital steward is a non-commissioned officer ; he ranks with ordnance sergeants, and next above the first sergeant of a company.* He is therefore entitled by his rank to obedience from all enlisted men who may be in the hos- pital, whether patients, ward-masters, nurses, or employes, who must cheerfully and promptly comply with all his reasonable and lawful com- mands. In his relations to the medical officers, or to commissioned officers generally, however, he must never forget that he is an enlisted man, and owes prompt and ready obedience to the lawful commands of his military superiors. * Revised Regulations for the Army, 1861, Art. II, g 4.