Scales
3 doz. Bolus knives
3 doz. Pot Spathulae
2 doz. Marble Mortars, of one pint, & Pestles
2 doz. Setts Measures, from 1/2 ounce to 1 [pint?]
6 doz. Earthen Vessels (deep) with handles--of different
sizes, from 2 quarts to 2 galls, for boiling Decoctions, or
2 doz. copper Do. of one gallon--for that purpose.
6 doz. Delft Ware Tiles, for mixing Boluses &c. on.
While Dr. Brown was completing his report on medical supplies, he was
also concluding his compilation of an emergency military hospital
formulary which has become known as the _Lititz Pharmacopoeia_, so
named because Brown was making Lititz his headquarters at the time.
The preface is dated "Lititz, March 12, 1778." The actual title
(translated from Latin) reads: "Formulary of simple and yet
efficacious remedies for the use of the military hospital, belonging
to the army of the Federated States of America. Especially adapted to
our poverty and straitened circumstances, caused by the ferocious
inhumanity of the enemy, and the cruel war unexpectedly brought upon
our fatherland." This formulary was published by Styner & Cist of
Philadelphia in 1778, which means that it was not actually printed
until sometime after June 18, when the British evacuated Philadelphia.
In the preface Brown explained that there were two types of formulas
contained in the _Lititz Pharmacopoeia_; one was the "medicaments
which must be prepared and compounded in a general laboratory; the
others are to be mixed, as needed, in our hospital dispensaries."
The main store of drugs was housed at Manheim until late March, when
Shippen ordered Apothecary Cutting to pack the medical stores there
and proceed on to Yellow Springs.[133] Cutting wrote Potts on March 30
that
... the articles that we have in store are now ready to put on
board the waggons excepting the want of cases to contain them....
Paper, Twine, Square Snuff Bottles & Corks are so essentially
necessary to take with us, to fit up the Regimental Chests that I
wish your order to buy them at Lancaster immediately. I never heard
what place in the vicinity of Camp has been chosen for our
temporary Medicine Shop, nor what quantities the Regimental
Surgeons are to be supply'd when we get there....[134]
On April 16 Cutting[135] wrote that the
... dispensing store is open'd here [at Yellow Springs] and we have
begun to supply the Regiments in Camp.... Dr. Cochr
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