Breeden J O
Department of History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex. 75275-0176.
South Med J. 1993 Sep;86(9):1040-8. doi: 10.1097/00007611-199309000-00014.
The Union's decision to treat medicines and medical supplies as contraband of war meant, for the Confederacy, the specter of medical shortages. The Confederate medical department significantly lessened the subsequent suffering through an energetic and resourceful program to supply its physicians' needs. Medicines and medical supplies were purchased abroad and smuggled through the Union blockade, obtained in an illicit trade with the North, captured from the enemy, and manufactured in the Confederacy. The search for home remedies, enthusiastically endorsed by Surgeon General Samuel P. Moore, was one of the most prominent features of the southern program. This paper surveys and analyzes medical shortages and Confederate medicine.
联邦将药品和医疗用品视为战争违禁品的决定，对邦联来说，意味着医疗物资短缺的可怕前景。邦联医疗部门通过一项积极且足智多谋的计划来满足其医生的需求，从而显著减轻了随后的痛苦。药品和医疗用品从国外购买，偷运穿过联邦的封锁线，通过与北方的非法贸易获得，从敌人那里缴获，并在邦联境内制造。寻找民间疗法是南方计划最显著的特点之一，这得到了军医总监塞缪尔·P·摩尔的大力支持。本文对医疗物资短缺和邦联药品进行了调查与分析。
