EEGULATIONS MEDICAL DEPARTMENT MILITARY FORCES x\ORTH CAROLINA. riBLisHEn nv CHAS. E. JOHNSON, M. D., SURGEON GENERAL OF N. C. V RALEIGH : STUOTHi.K * ^I.VRCOM BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 1 8G1 (7>/A ^37 DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Treasure %oom KEGULATIONS MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 1. The Surgeon General, under the authority of the Gorernor, and the Military Laws of the State, is charged with the adminis- trative details of the Jledical ])e{)artmcnt, the governiuent of hos- pitals, the regulation of the duties of Surgeons and Assistant Sur- geons, and the assignment of Surgeons or Assistant Surgeons, where needed, for local or detached service. He will issue orders and instructions relating to their professional duties, and all communi- cations from them, which rcfiuire his action, will be made directly ti) him. 2. The medical supplies ro(|uired by Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons will be obtained by a requisition on the Surgeon General, a duplicate of the requisition of the Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon being furnished to be filed. 3. When a medical officer transfers medical supplies to another, or to a different post, he will take a receipt for the Bame. 4. Medical officers will account for all medical supplies that come into their possession. 5. The .senior medical officer of a hospital will distribute the patients, according to convenience and the nature of their com- plaints, into wards or divisions, under the particular charge of the Assistant Surgeons, and will visit them himself each day, as fre- quently as the sick or wounded may require, accompanied by the Assistant, Hospital Steward and Nurse. 6. His prescriptions of medicine and diet arc daily to bo written down in a register, with the name of the patient and number of the bed; and the Assistant or Steward, in his absence, will see that the directions are carried out. 4 MEDICAL REOULATIOXS. 7. He will, if ill charge of a hospital or post, with the approval of the ommandiiig fifBeer, appointa steward, cooks and nurses, who will be uiulcr his orders. 8. lie will enforce the proper hospital regulations to promote health and prevent contagion, hy ventilated and not crowded rooms, scrupuliius cleanliness, changes of bed, linen, &c. 9. At the Surgeon's call the sick in each corapan\- will be con- ducted to the hospital by the First Sergeant, who will hand to the Surgeon in his company book a list of all the sick, on which list the Surgeon shall state who are to remain or go into hospital ; who arc to return to quarters as sick or convalescent; what duties the con- valescents in quarters are capable of, or any other information in regard to the sick of the company which he may have to communi- cate to the commander, and report to him. (Form 1.) 10. Soldiers in hospital, patients or attendants, except stewards, shall be mustered on the rolls of the hospital department. 11. When a patient is transferred from one hospital to another, the medical officer shall send with him an account of his case and the treatment. (Form 4.) 12. The regulations for the service of hospitals apply as far as practicable to the service in the field. 13. The senior medical officer of each hospital, post, regiment or detachment, will keep the following records: a register of patients (Form 2;) a prescription and diet book (Form 3;) a case book; copies of his reiiuisitions; monthly returns of sick and wounded; an order and letter book, in which will be transcribed all orders and letters relating to his duties. 14. Ordinarily, hospital attendants are allowed as follows: to a general hospital, one steward, o'ne nurse to ten patients, and (me cook to thirty; to a post or garri.son of one company, one steward, one nurse, one cook and for every two companies more, one nurse. lo. Medical officers, in giving certificates of disability, are to take particular care in all cases which have been under their charge, and especially in epilepsy, convulsions, chronic rheumatism, gout, dcranaeineiil of ihc urinary orjians. (iplitlialiiiia. iiliers. or any ob- scure disi'ascs. 16 As .soon as companies are organizeil and ofl'ered for service, the Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon will examine the members and vaccinate them, if necessary. MEDICAL UE(U'I,ATIOSS. 5 17. Every medical officer will report to the Surgeon General the date when he arrives at a station, or when he leaves it. and his orders in the ca.sc. 18. Surgeons will make to the Surgeon General a monthly return (Form 7) of the medical officers of the Command, and a consoli- dated monthly report of the sick and wounded from the several reports made to them ; giving the disease, name, regiment and com- pany, discharges and deaths. (Form 5.) ALso a return of medi- cines, instruments, hospital stores, furniture, &c. (Form G.) It). If it be at any time necessary to employ a private physician, the commanding officer may do it liy written contract, reporting a duplicate to the Surgeon General. 20. Assi.stant Surgeons will obey the orders of their Senior Sur- geon; see that subordinate officers do their duty, and aid in en- forcing the regulations of the hospital. 21. The Steward will take charge of all hospital stores, instru- ments, furniture of every description, a.. d supplies for the sick; keep a roster of nurses and attendants ; and make out returns Air rations, according to the number in hospital; receive and distribute rations, and submit his book to the Surgeon, monthly, for examina- tion, or oftcner if required, lie will issue the stores to nurses and cooks, and enter the amount delivered in his hook. He will fee re- sponsible for furniture, bedding, cooking utensils, &c., and keep the store-room neat and clean. (Form G.) 22. In the management of hospitals and posts, cleanliness, order, regularity in meals, attention to cooking, and special care of the sick and wounded, are particularly enjoined upon the medical officers. 23. In pa.ssing a recruit, the medical officer is to examine him stripped; to see that he has free use of all his limbs ; that his chest isam])le; that his hearing, vision, and s]iccch are perfect; and that he is nut suHorlng from any disorder or infirmity that may unfit him for militarv service. MEDICAL RElilL.VTIOXS. giitctiouji to glnniJ ^urgcon.'j. (FROM A PAMPHLET ON THE HOSPITAL BRIGADE.) BY G. J. GUTnUIE, Surjrcon General to the British forces in the Crimean War. 1. Water being of the utmost importance to wounded men. care should be taken when before the enemy, not only that the barrels attached to the conveyance-carts are properly filled with good water, but that skins for holding water, or such other means as are com- monly used in the country fur carrying it, should be procured and duly filled. 2. Bandages or rollers, applied on the field of battle are. in gen- eral, so many things wasted, as they become dirty and stiff, and are usually cut away and destroyed, without having been really u.seful; they are therefore not forthcoming when reijuired, and would be of no use. 3. Simple gun-shot wounds require nothing more, for the first two or three days, than the application of a piece of wet or oiled linen, fastened on with a strip of sticking-plaster, or, if possible, kept constantly wet and cold with water. When cold disagrees, warm water should be substituted. 4. Wounds made by swords, sabres, or other sharp-cutting instru- ments, are to be treated principally by position. Thus, a cut down to the bone, across the thick part of the arm, immediately below the shoulder is to be treated by raising the arm to or above a right angle with the body, in which po.sition it is to be retained, however in- convenient it may be. Ligatures may be inserted, but through the skin only. If the throat he cut acmss in front, any great vessels should bo tied, and the oozing stopped by a sponge. .Xfter a few MEDICAL KEUULATIOX:*. ( hours, when the oozing is arrested, the spon-ic should be removed, and the head brought down towards the chest, and retained in that position without ligatures ; if this is done too soon the sufferer way possibly be suffocated by the infiltration ot blood into the areolar tissue of the parts adjacent. 5. If the cavity of the chest is opened into by a sword or lanee, it is of the utmost importance that the wound in the skin should be effectively closed, and this can only be done by sewing it up as a tailor or a lady would sew up a seam, skin only being included; a compress of lint .should be applied over the stitches, fastened on by sticking plaster. The patient is then to be placed on the wounded side, that the lung may fall down, if it can, upon, or apply itself to the wounded part, and adhere to it, by which happy and hoped-for accident life will, in all probability, be preserved. If the lung should be seen protruding in the wound, it should not be returned beyond the level of the ribs, but be covered over by the external parts. 6. It is advisable to encourage previously the discharge of blood from the cavity of the chest, if any have fallen into it; but if the bleeding from within should continue, so as to place the life of the sufferer in danger, the external wound should be closed, and events awaited. 7. When it is doubtful whether the bleeding proceeds from the cavity of the chest, or from tl^ intercostal artery (a surgical bug- bear,) an incision through the skin and the external intercostal muscle will expose the artery close to the edge of the rib having the internal intercostal muscle behind it. 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