Pharmacy and Medicine in the Revolutionary War – Flashcards
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medicine and pharmacy gradually migrated into separate specialties but
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still no legal separation
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first hospital
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Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia (1751)
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first medical college
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College of Philadelphia (1765)
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did not differentiate between surgeons and apothecaries at first. reorganized: apothecaries restricted to pharmaceutical tasks
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Army Medical Department
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establishes a laboratory and storehouse at Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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Medical Department
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first attempt at uniform, obligatory military formulary. drugs had to be simple, cheap, readily available, substitutions were suggested
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Lititz Pharmacopoeia (1778)
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compiled for use of French troops in North America
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Coste's Compendium (1780)
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drawn from French Codex, no indigenous North American drugs included
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Coste's Compendium
