W. Richardson to Stephen F Austin, 01-21-1836
Summary: Order for medical supplies
Will please purchase for the medical and surgical department of Texas, the following additional supply of medicines, etc
4 Cases amputating (instruments), 4 trephening do
4 do Pocket do
12 Gum elastic catheters
1/2 lb Beeswax
16lbs Arrow root
6 do ground flax Seed
12 do, Simple cerate
16 rolls adhesive plaster
6 bed pans (metalic)
12 Epsom salts,
10. Rhubarb,
10. Calomel,
12. Bottles Quinine
1 lb Opium
4 lbs Laudanum
4 do Paregoric
1 Tar Emet
2 lbs Ipecac,
6 Lunar Caustics
4 lbs Castile Soap
1 red precip.
1/2 do corrosive sublimate
2 bottles Cal. Magnesia,
6 Bowel Syringes
12. Bottles Caster Oil
6 Lint
6 Small wedgewood mortars and pestles
6 Files and spatulas
4 lbs Gum Arabic,
Materials for six large tents, for the Sick, with blankets, for bedding, etc
W. Richardson Surg. Gen. of the Army of Texas
List of medicines purchased in N. Orleants