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.

  • Woodward, Joseph Janvier, 1833-1884.
Date:
1863 [©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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    not authorized to be obtained in any other way. Purchases for the subsiste?ice of the sick may be divided into two classes. First, purchases necessary to complete the ordinary full diet table, as adopted by the surgeon in charge for his hospital, such as milk, butter, fresh vegetables, e.g. cabbage, onions, turnips, &c, mustard, pepper, dried fruit, sour-krout, and all similar articles. Ice comes also under this head. Secondly, purchases necessary for the extra diet ordered by the surgeon in special cases, such as eggs, oysters, chickens, fresh fruit, oranges, lemons, malt liquors, &c. &c. These articles will be referred to hereafter, in connection with the question of Diet and Cooking. Purchases for the comfort of the sick may include a great variety of articles, as purchases of oil, or expenditures for gas for lighting the hospital, hospital furniture which cannot be obtained by requisition on the medical pur- veyor, as window-shades, water-coolers, &c.&c, printed blanks for passes, discharges, labels, printed rules and regulations, &c. &c. The authority for making these purchases