Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . he army, andvery shortly after I entered I began familiarizing myselfwith drugs and chemicals^ and with such other duties asmight fall to the lot of a hospital attache. Indeed, Istudied so hard that sometimes things became confusedin my mind. A condition not always any too safe to 128 Muskets and Medicine. work under, as my experience with our C(X)k, as narratedin another chapter, will show.^ We had a few medical books, among which I recallTarerias Materia Medica, Mendenhalls Vade Me-cum, a work on chemistry; Parishes Pharmacy, andGrays .Ana
Muskets and medicine; or, Army life in the sixties . he army, andvery shortly after I entered I began familiarizing myselfwith drugs and chemicals^ and with such other duties asmight fall to the lot of a hospital attache. Indeed, Istudied so hard that sometimes things became confusedin my mind. A condition not always any too safe to 128 Muskets and Medicine. work under, as my experience with our C(X)k, as narratedin another chapter, will show.^ We had a few medical books, among which I recallTarerias Materia Medica, Mendenhalls Vade Me-cum, a work on chemistry; Parishes Pharmacy, andGrays .Anatomy, then a new work just out. Theillustrations in Gray were a very great improvement onall that had gone before, and consequently this worktook, and long held, a high place among medical publica-tions. But few as were the books and many as were thehandicaps, I, then and there, began the study of medi-cine, and, on the w^hole, I never before or since passedany happier days, and I really worked and studied withno little enthusiasm. See Chapter Charles B. Johnson, age 21. Hospital Steward,130th IlHnois Infantry Volunteers. TO MY COMRADES WHO WORE THE BLUE, AND TO OTHER FRIENDS, SOME OF WHOM WORE THE GRAY, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED. CHAPTER XIII. Equipment, Work, and Some Attaches ofOur Regimental Hospital. A mighty arsenal to subdue disease,Of various names, whereof I mention these:Lancets and bougies, great and little and senna, snakeroot, thoroughwort— —Oliver Wendell Holmes. In the field the Regimental Hospital department wasallowed two small tents for the officers, medicines, etc.;another small tent for the kitchen department and sup-plies, and a larger one for the sick. This last, known asthe hospital tent, was about fourteen feet square and wascapable of containing eight cots with as many patients. In the field we almost never had sheets and white pil-low cases, but made use of army blankets that were madeof the coarsest, roughest fiber imaginable. In
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