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or  beds  to  be  supplied,  and  whether  for  general  hospitals,  permanent  posts, 
or  field  service.  If  for  permanent  posts,  the  amount  of  hospital  accom- 
modations must  be  stated,  so  that  if  less  than  one  hundred  beds,  the 
allowance  of  bedding,  hospital  clothing,  furniture  and  appliances,  may  be 
correspondingly  reduced. 
Requisitions  to  replenish  medical  and  hospital  supplies  will  always  be 
made  in  detail,  according  to  form  8,  and  for  those  articles  only  that  are 
really  deficient  in  quantity.  If  the  supplies  are  to  be  obtained  from  the 
principal  purveying  depots,  these  requisitions  will  be  made  quarterly ;  if 
from  department  or  field  depots,  they  will  be  made  at  such  times  and  for 
such  periods  as  the  Medical  Director  may  prescribe.  Special  requisitions 
are  not  intended  to  take  the  place  of  the  regular  quarterly  requisition. 
They  are  only  permissible  in  cases  of  emergency;  and  the  face  of  the  re- 
quisition must  state  the  circumstances  which  constitute  the  emergency, 
rendering  such  special  requisition  necessary." 
Department  and  Field  depots  receive  their  medical  supplies 
put  up  in  packages,  thereby  greatly  facilitating  their  operations, 
and  making  it  but  the  work  of  a  few  hours  to  fit  out  a  whole  divi- 
sion, or  to  start  a  hospital  of  a  thousand  beds.  The  system  of 
accountability  is  rigid  and  thorough,  the  Surgeon  General  being 
daily  informed  of  every  issue  of  whatever  kind;  and  all  officers 
receiving  medical  supplies  being  required  to  account  for  each  and 
every  article  received. 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  Feb.,  1865. 
ON  PULV.  JACOBI  VERUS. 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Jan.  30th,  1865. 
Prof.  Procter: 
Dear  Sir, — Inclosed  I  send  you  an  ancient  piece  of  pharma- 
ceutical literature,  to  which  I  have  added  the  translation.  I 
thought  from  the  celebrity  this  powder  has,  that  the  original 
formula  might  not  be  uninteresting  to  your  readers.  Dr.  James 
undoubtedly  intended  the  old  formula  more  for  fevers  than  a 
simple  diaphoretic — malignant  fevers  at  that  time  greatly  pre- 
vailing. But  I  believe  that  he  must  have  subsequently  abandoned 
the  latter  part  of  the  preparation.  The  quantities  used,  and  the 
proper  way  to  make  it,  James  undoubtedly  kept  a  secret  in  his 
family — the  grandson  being  the  present  maker — as  no  prepara- 
tion like  it  has  ever  been  made  that  has  shown  the  uniform 
effect  it  does,  besides  leaving  no  irritation  on  the  bowels,  which 
all  other  antimonial  powders  do,  especially  on  patients  residing 
in  hot  climates. 
