American Civil War Surgical Antiques Research and Identification Civil War Era Surgical Sets, Surgeon's Images Civil War Surgeon Education & Medical Textbooks Established 1995    .     Dr. Michael Echols Collection As seen in:  Warman's Civil War Collectibles, Antique Week, Northeast Antiques, and various TV programs, Antiques & Collecting publications

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. 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 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 (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