Help ! :(

[Darling]

i need help with a topic im doing and its apothecaries during the civil war. nothing pops up to help me on my search engine so i need help :(

[Skibop!!]

a-what?

[A Boy Like Troy]

Well you didn't provide enough information.

[Darling]

a-what?

 

apothecaries during the civil war era :(

[Ogre Shrek]

Googled "apothecaries during the civil war" and got the following pdf article:

 

https://www.google.com.sg/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDEQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpharmacy.wisc.edu%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fprivate%2Famerican-institute-history-pharmacy%2FAC10.pdf&ei=Jf6vUf7ACISIrAf8_4DICA&usg=AFQjCNGTKwOVM3vptxYwO8z_P-PjauaFBQ&bvm=bv.47534661,d.bmk

[Darling]

Well you didn't provide enough information.

 

what i need help with is finding out how apothecaries influenced the civil war and if they didnt influence the civil war then basically what apothecaries were like during the civil war and i can find nothing ):

[A Boy Like Troy]

what i need help with is finding out how apothecaries influenced the civil war and if they didnt influence the civil war then basically what apothecaries were like during the civil war and i can find nothing ):

Virginia Penny's Employments of Women, 1863, is always a good place to start for this kind of thing.

You can start here http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;q1=apothecar%2A;q2=drug%2A;op2=or ;op3=and;rgn=works;cite1=penny;cite1restrict=autho r;idno=AEB1163.0001.001;didno=AEB1163.0001.001;vie w=image;seq=0139

and read forward, or also use the "Search this text" function.

 

Note carefully though, the difference between things she proposes could be done but apparently weren't, and things that were done. It appears that walking into a drugstore and finding a woman filling a prescription would be almost unknown.

 

"I was told that no drug broker and no retail druggist employs women." One druggist explained, "drug stores kept by ladies, or where they are employed to dispense, would not be patronized by physicians. He said, if any trouble should occur, from want of knowledge or skill in putting up medicines, and the case was brought into court, the man that employed female dispensers would be punished. Many persons, he says, come to druggists for medical and surgical advice, that could not, and would not think of consulting a lady, even if she were competent to give advice."

 

Echoing the same sentiments, "A druggist of New York writes: 'There is but one college of pharmacy in the city of New York, where instruction would be given equally to ladies, if they desired it; athough, as yet, none have ever presented themselves. Ladies have never been employed, to my knowledge, as druggists' clerks in this city, or elsewhere in the United States... In one instance, it was attempted in Philadephia a few years since, by a leading druggist, with a view of economy, I believe; and although he professed to have engaged the ladies merely as saleswomen in the fancy goods department, they nevertheless were allowed to dispense medicines. It so happened that one of these made a mistake, in giving the wrong medicine, which resulted in the death of the patient, a lady of wealth and wide acquaintance, and the consequence was the ruin and destruction fo the whole business of the druggist.' "

 

Ironically, "A lady physician writes: 'I do not know whether women are anywhere employed as druggists' clerks... I am not aware of any druggist here who would take a pupil, but I have no doubt one could be found.' "

 

But stepping into a manufactory and finding women helping make and package patent or wholesale medicines would not be uncommon. Penny gives several examples on p. 117, with descriptions of their work and typical wages.

 

Of course, that's all in reference to commercial civilian life. I don't know how far women strayed into the apothecary end of the work at military hospitals, though based on the above, I'm guessing there was strong prejudice against it.

 

And there's also the backwoods informal midwife/"doctor" who operated outside of the medical establishment and served as an "apothecary" in the sense that she knew what local plants to dose folks with through a combination of folklore and medical tradition, and found and mixed them herself.

 

Hank Trent

[email protected]

 

[Darling]

Googled "apothecaries during the civil war" and got the following pdf article:

 

https://www.google.com.sg/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDEQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpharmacy.wisc.edu%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fprivate%2Famerican-institute-history-pharmacy%2FAC10.pdf&ei=Jf6vUf7ACISIrAf8_4DICA&usg=AFQjCNGTKwOVM3vptxYwO8z_P-PjauaFBQ&bvm=bv.47534661,d.bmk

 

doesnt work on my lap top :(

[Darling]

 

what i need help with is finding out how apothecaries influenced the civil war and if they didnt influence the civil war then basically what apothecaries were like during the civil war and i can find nothing ):

Virginia Penny's Employments of Women, 1863, is always a good place to start for this kind of thing.

You can start here http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;q1=apothecar%2A;q2=drug%2A;op2=or ;op3=and;rgn=works;cite1=penny;cite1restrict=autho r;idno=AEB1163.0001.001;didno=AEB1163.0001.001;vie w=image;seq=0139

and read forward, or also use the "Search this text" function.

 

Note carefully though, the difference between things she proposes could be done but apparently weren't, and things that were done. It appears that walking into a drugstore and finding a woman filling a prescription would be almost unknown.

 

"I was told that no drug broker and no retail druggist employs women." One druggist explained, "drug stores kept by ladies, or where they are employed to dispense, would not be patronized by physicians. He said, if any trouble should occur, from want of knowledge or skill in putting up medicines, and the case was brought into court, the man that employed female dispensers would be punished. Many persons, he says, come to druggists for medical and surgical advice, that could not, and would not think of consulting a lady, even if she were competent to give advice."

 

Echoing the same sentiments, "A druggist of New York writes: 'There is but one college of pharmacy in the city of New York, where instruction would be given equally to ladies, if they desired it; athough, as yet, none have ever presented themselves. Ladies have never been employed, to my knowledge, as druggists' clerks in this city, or elsewhere in the United States... In one instance, it was attempted in Philadephia a few years since, by a leading druggist, with a view of economy, I believe; and although he professed to have engaged the ladies merely as saleswomen in the fancy goods department, they nevertheless were allowed to dispense medicines. It so happened that one of these made a mistake, in giving the wrong medicine, which resulted in the death of the patient, a lady of wealth and wide acquaintance, and the consequence was the ruin and destruction fo the whole business of the druggist.' "

 

Ironically, "A lady physician writes: 'I do not know whether women are anywhere employed as druggists' clerks... I am not aware of any druggist here who would take a pupil, but I have no doubt one could be found.' "

 

But stepping into a manufactory and finding women helping make and package patent or wholesale medicines would not be uncommon. Penny gives several examples on p. 117, with descriptions of their work and typical wages.

 

Of course, that's all in reference to commercial civilian life. I don't know how far women strayed into the apothecary end of the work at military hospitals, though based on the above, I'm guessing there was strong prejudice against it.

 

And there's also the backwoods informal midwife/"doctor" who operated outside of the medical establishment and served as an "apothecary" in the sense that she knew what local plants to dose folks with through a combination of folklore and medical tradition, and found and mixed them herself.

 

Hank Trent

[email protected]

 

 

 

thanks :D im going to try researching more about how apothecaries affected the civil war 

[A Boy Like Troy]

thanks :D im going to try researching more about how apothecaries affected the civil war 

 

Lol I'm not sure if I even helped you lol. It's just something that seemed like it dealth with apothecaries and civil war

[Darling]

Lol I'm not sure if I even helped you lol. It's just something that seemed like it dealth with apothecaries and civil war

 

i know i saw that article/forum post XD but at least you tried and that deserves a thanks. im rephrasing my words like "pharmacies in the civil war"

[Ogre Shrek]

doesnt work on my lap top :(

Your laptop is not pdf-enabled?

 

Here's the starting and concluding paragraphs of the article:

 

Preparing and Dispensing Prescriptions during the Civil War Era

by Guy R. Hasegawa

 

INTEREST in the Civil War era seems unending. For most students of American history, the period’s political and military aspects take center stage, while the more mundane facets of life are overlooked. How, for example, was everyday pharmacy practiced? A thorough answer to this question would occupy much more space than is available here, so this article goes no further than the basics of dispensing simple oral medications in American pharmacies. Although pharmacy has changed tremendously since the mid-1800s, some of the challenges that pharmacists faced then still exist today.

 

Conclusion

Compared with their modern counterparts, dispensing pharmacists of the Civil War era were more concerned with obtaining drugs of adequate quality, dealing with confusing units of weight, and spontaneously compounding relatively complex formulations. Pharmacists of the period kept patients in the dark about the nature of their prescriptions. Like today’s pharmacists, however, those of the mid-1800s handled illegible and irrational prescriptions and had to draw on a considerable store of drug knowledge to ensure that patients received the most useful form of prescribed medicine.

Quite an interesting article, 7 pages with lots of illustrations and references. Worth a read.

[Darling]

Your laptop is not pdf-enabled?

 

Here's the starting and concluding paragraphs of the article:

 

 

Quite an interesting article, 7 pages with lots of illustrations and references. Worth a read.

 

no sadly it isnt D: but i just read an article by dr hasegawa, thank you ! ill try to look again