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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS
FOR
THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF SEPTEMBER I8il.
Washington, May, 1819. 
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Mldical Department
.tdditions to the Regulations for  the Medical  De-

            partment  of September  1818.


    The regular supplies of medicines, hospital stores, &c. will
je purchased by the Apothecary General and  his assistants
only, agreeably to the  annual requisitions transmitted to the of-
fice of the  Surgeon General.   Whenever an extra supply is
required in consequence of  the marching of a detachment, the
arrival of a greater number of  men at a post than had been es-
timated for, the loss or miscarriage ol any article, unusual ex-
penditure from a sickly season, 8tc. a requisition will be made for
it by the attending surgeon, and countersigned by the command-
ing officer of the regiment, post, or detachment; and if it  can-
not conveniently be obtained from the Apothecary General or
his assistants, it may be purchased by the Surgeon, or an offi-
cer of the  Quartermaster's Department.  Duplicates of such
requisitions will in all cases be  immediately  forwarded  to the
Surgeon General, and the circumstances stated,  which render-
ed them necessary
     The Apothecary General, or his assistants,  will make no
issues but upon the annual requisitions and estimates received
from the Surgeon General, except in the cases above stated, in
all which the quantities issued will be according to the Standard
Supply T able.
     Hospital stores will be furnished only to the officers,  non-
commissioned officers, musicians, privates and enlisted artificers
and laborers in the service of the United States,  and medicines
only to them and their families
     Medical and hospital supplies, are not to be detained or di-
verted from their destination, except by  generals of division,
and commanding officers of departments, in cases of emergency
and absolute necessity, when a  report will be promptly made to
the Adjutant and Inspector General, that further orders  for de-
ficiency  may be given.
     All  applications of Post Surgeons for change  of stations
will be made to the General of  division, and will be immediate-
ly reported to the  Surgeon General,  with  the reasons assigned
therefor. 
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     In lieu of  the money heretofore received, for rations ana
parts of rations, commuted or sold, the surgeon will  make  re-
turns upon the Assistant  Commissary of Subsistence for  such
supplies of vegetables, poultry, milk, &c. as he may  think ne
cessary for the  use of the sick; provided the cost of the articles
so purchased does not .exceed the value of the rations  and parts
retained, estimating the whole ration at twenty cents.

         By  order,
Adj. & Insp. Gent, 
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