Hospital Corps Quarterly Volume 4 (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. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... body will hereafter be issued in the form of a SUPPLEMENT Contributions for the SUPPLEMENT are desired from members "of the Hospital Corps and from other sources, but the Bureau does not necessarily undertake to indorse all views and opinions expressed 1The present issue is No. 14. Nos. 1 and 2 appeared incorporated in the July and October issues, 1917, respectively, of the United States Naval Medical Bulletin. (5) THE PHARMACIST IN THE NAVY ' By P. F. DICKENS, Lieutenant, Medical Corps, United States Navy. The clouds of the World War are now lifting and each of you has been planning for the peaceful times to come and trying, as rapidly as possible, to forget the trials and restraints which have so seriously incommoded us. The struggle of readjustment to the new order of things is at hand. Each day we read or hear of the general unrest throughout the country, but history tells us that this has been the case after each great War in which our country has been involved, and we are witnesses also of the fact that the United States has stood the strain before and our stable institutions have survived and acquired a greater strength and prestige. I am sure that the same will be true this time, provided that in the general readjustment to altered conditions you pharmacists, in conjunction with other leaders in your communities, will do your duty in molding public opinion to proper standards. The almost universal misconceptions which have so long prevailed in regard to military matters in general include also the duties and career of the naval pharmacist. I know that a goodly proportion of those who listen to me to-day have had their ideas of the duties and specific functions of naval pharmacists changed by having been closely...