United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 4045 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... regimental surgeons are not sufficient in number to attend properly to the sick and wounded that can not be removed to the hospitals, the director, or, in his absence, the nearest chief hospital physician, be empowered and required, upon request of the chief physician and surgeon of the Army, to send from the hospitals under his care, to the assistance of such sick and wounded, as many surgeons as can possibly be spared from the necessary business of the hospitals. That the director, or, in his absence, two of the chief hospital physicians, shall make out and deliver, from time to time, to the purveyor, proper estimates of hospital stores, medicines, instruments, dressings, and such other articles as may be judged necessary for the use of the hospitals; also direct the apothecary or his assistant to prepare and deliver medicines, instruments, dressings, and other articles in his possession to the hospitals and surgeons of the Army and Navy as he or they may judge necessary. That the director authorize and instruct the purveyor and apothecary to supply, for the use of the regimental surgeons, such medicines and refreshments as may be proper for the relief of the sick and wounded before their removal to a general hospital, and to be dispensed under the care and at the direction of the chief physician of the Army. That the director, or, in his absence, the chief hospital physicians, respectively, be empowered occasionally to employ second mates when the number of the sick shall increase so as to make it necessary, and to discharge them as soon as the circumstances of the sick will admit. That the director, or, in his absence, the chief hospital physicians, respectively, shall appoint a ward master for each hospital to receive the spare...