(Note: In 1856 Edward
Robinson Squibb founded a pharmaceutical company in Brooklyn, New York,
dedicated to the production of consistently pure medicines. In 1895 Squibb
passed most of the responsibility for managing the firm to his sons, Charles and
Edward. The company became known as E.R. Squibb & Sons. So, any Squibb
products used in the Civil War will NOT have '& Sons' on the label.)
U. S. Army Hospital Department pannier label by Squibb
In a Civil War Squibb pannier
various anesthetics were labeled:
Chloroform was labeled:
CHLOROFORMUM PURIFICATUM. (chloroform) and packaged in twelve fluid ounces
Ether was labeled:
SPIRITUS AETHERIS COMPOSITUS. (compound spirits of ether) packaged in four
fluid ounces) or as SPIRITUS FRUMENTI. (spirits
of nitric ether) Twenty-four fluid ounces
Morphine was labeled:
LIQUOR MORPHIAE SULPHATIS. (morphine sulphate solution) Sixteen grains to
the fluid ounce, four fluid ounces)
Opium was labeled: PILLS OF CAMPHOR AND
OPIUM. Twenty dozen; PILULAE OPII. (opium pills) Sixty dozen; PULVIS IPECAC:
ET OPII. (powder of ipecac and opium) In five gram pills, thirty dozen;
TINCTURA OPII. (tincture of opium; laudanum) Six fluid ounces
