Army Medical Service Formulary; Department of the Army Technical Manual TM 8-245

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [2],607, [1] pages. Tables. Figures. Index. Three-hole punched and staple bound. Front cover is separated but present. Cover has wear and soiling. Cold War era item. At its basic level, a formulary is a list of medicines. Traditionally, a formulary contained a collection of formulas for the compounding and testing of medication (a resource closer to what would be referred to as a pharmacopoeia today). Today, the main function of a prescription formulary is to specify particular medications that are approved to be prescribed at a particular hospital, in a particular health system, or under a particular health insurance policy. The development of prescription formularies is based on evaluations of efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of drugs. Depending on the individual formulary, it may also contain additional clinical information, such as side effects, contraindications, and doses. By the turn of the millennium, 156 countries had national or provincial essential medicines lists and 135 countries had national treatment guidelines and/or formulary manuals. This technical manual uses portions of the text of The United States Pharmacopeia, Fifthteenth Revision, official December 15, 1955, portions of The National Formulary, Tenth Edition with permission, quotations from New and Nonofficial Drugs, and other texts with permission. This is an important snapshot in time reflecting the state of knowledge and the state of practice in the U.S. Army during an early period in the Cold War. The Army Medical Department of the U.S. Army – known as the AMEDD; formerly named the Army Medical Service, AMS – comprises the Army's six medical Special Branches (or "Corps") of officers and its enlisted medical soldiers. It was established as the "Army Hospital" in July 1775 to coordinate the medical care required by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. The AMEDD is led by the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, a lieutenant general. The AMEDD is the U.S. Army's healthcare organization, not a U.S. Army command. It is found in all three branches of the Army: the Active Army, the U.S. Army Reserve, and the Army National Guard. Its headquarters is at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, which hosts the AMEDD Center and School (AMEDDC&S). Large numbers of AMEDD senior leaders can also be found in the Washington D.C. area, divided between the Pentagon and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC). The Academy of Health Sciences, within the AMEDDC&S, provides training to the officers and enlisted service members of the AMEDD. As a result of BRAC 2005, enlisted medical training was transferred to the new Medical Education and Training Campus, consolidating the majority of military-enlisted medical training in Fort Sam Houston. Condition: Fair.

Keywords: Army Medical Service, Formulary, Pharmacy, Prescription Medication, Therapeutic Agents, Analgesic, Anesthetic, Antihistaminic, Anti-Infection, Anti-nausea, Astringent, Cardiovascular, Diagnostic, Central Nervous System, Hormones, Immunologic. Metabol

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