Medical Care
Samuel North written to Cynthia, 1862
This excerpt has been used with the permission of "The Valley of the Shadow"
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/cwletters.html
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| " My dutys in the hospital are to give out the medicine the Surgeon prescribed. The sick call is at eight oclock in the morning when all the sick in the companies come up to the hospital with their sore toes, sore shins, sore heads, bad colds, rheumatisms about 30 or 40 every morning come to get medicine & it takes the Dr. about 2 or 3 hours examining their ailments & prescribing the medicine for them which I have to put up for each one. Some are sick in their tent. The doctor visits & prescribes for them so they are coming in all through the day for medicine & some of us have to be on hand to give it out. We have 10 patients in our hospital who have to have their medicine & my duty is to see that they get it at the right times & to see that the nurses do their duty keeping the hospital & patients clean & properly warmed & also to see that the patients each one gets his proper diet so one of us have to overlook the cooks to get what is suitable for the patients cooked. [ One poor soldier will probably] So you see I am kept very close in the hospital. This afternoon the other hospital steward Dr. Casey & myself rode out for a couple hours. We visited some of the forts handy. Fort Lincoln is in sight only 1/4 of a mile from our camp."
Samuel North written to Cynthia, 1862
This excerpt has been used with the permission of "The Valley of the Shadow" http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/cwletters.html
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