The hospital steward's manual : for the instruction of hospital stewards, wardmasters, and attendants, in their several duties; prepared in strict accordance with existing regulations and the customs of service in the armies of the United States of America, and rendered authoritative by order of the Surgeon-General.

  • Woodward, Joseph Janvier, 1833-1884.
Date:
1863 [©1862]
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Credit: The hospital steward's manual : for the instruction of hospital stewards, wardmasters, and attendants, in their several duties; prepared in strict accordance with existing regulations and the customs of service in the armies of the United States of America, and rendered authoritative by order of the Surgeon-General. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    OFFICIAL ORDERS. Surgeon-General's Office, Washington City, August 5, 1862. Surgeons J. K. Barnes and J. E. Smith, U.S. Array, are hereby appointed a Board to examine and re- port upon a work entitled The Hospital Steward's Manual, presented by Assistant Surgeon J. J. Wood- ward, U. S. Army. William A. Hammond, Surgeon-General U.S.A. Surgeon-General's Office, Washington City, August 19, 1862. The Board having critically examined the work presented by Assistant Surgeon J. J. Woodward, U.S.A., entitled The Hospital Steward's Manual, report that this work is written in strict accordance with the regulations of the army and the customs of the service; that the book supplies a deficiency which has been long feit; and respectfully recom- mend that it be adopted for the instruction of hos- pital stewards, and as an authority in all military hospitals in the United States. Joseph K. Barnes, Surgeon U.S.A. Joseph B. Smith, Surgeon U.S.A.