First aid in illness and injury; Medicine, Popular
The size of the surgical outfit will depend, of course, upon the size
of the party. The dressings and things that will be destroyed will
necessarily have to be increased in proportion to the number of the
party.
_Medical Stores_
The suggestions here will be based upon a party of four staying one
month.
In the case with the hypodermic place one tube strychnia sulphate, gr.
1/30, price 20 cents. Use as a powerful stimulant hypodermically one
tablet every four hours, if needed, watching the action of the heart
carefully. One tube cocaine muriate, gr. 1/4, price 50 cents. Use as a
local anesthetic as suggested in chapter on surgery and for toothache.
Can be used to control vomiting—one tablet followed by swallow of hot
water every four hours, if needed. Solution of one tablet in spoonful
of hot water dropped in eye to deaden so as to remove foreign bodies.
One tube morphine sulphate, gr. 1/4, and atropine sulphate, gr. 1/100,
combined, price 25 cents. Use as a sedative for pain, one tablet
hypodermically repeated every two hours to effect; digitalin, gr.
1/100, price 25 cents. Use as heart stimulant where action of heart is
deranged, one tablet not oftener than thrice daily. One tube apomorphia
hydrochlorate, gr. 1/10, price 50 cents. Use to induce vomiting in
cases of poisoning, one tablet hypodermically only. One tube glonoin,
gr. 1/100, price 15 cents. Use as heart stimulant in shock and great
depression due to cerebral anemia; not in loss of blood, however.
One sole leather medicine case with screw-cap glass bottles, numbers
etched on bottles, price from $1 to $3, according to style and finish.
Book to slip in pocket for keeping list of remedies and their
therapeutic application, cost 25 cents.
The bottles filled as follows: The numbering need not adhere strictly
to that here given:
No. 1. Aconitine gr. 1/134. 200 at 25 cents per C. Use in cases of high
fever where heart is full and bounding and there is great congestion
as shown by headache, backache, etc. Use in beginning of all colds.
Take in all cases one tablet every fifteen minutes for an hour then
one tablet every two hours, or better still take every half hour until
pulse becomes soft and surface of skin is moist.
No. 2. Dosimetric Trinity No. 1. 200 at 50 cents per C. One tablet
every half hour to effect. The effect will be to reduce all fevers
much the same as above except that it may be continued over a longer
time and becomes a routine treatment in typhoid, pneumonia, grippe,
bronchitis, rheumatic fever, and in all cases of fever where the heart
seems to need a slight stimulation.
No. 3. Intestinal antiseptic. 500 at 50 cents per C. One tablet
every three hours as routine treatment in typhoid, diarrhea, colic,
dysentery, and all disordered fermentative conditions of the intestinal
tract.
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