HOME FIRST-AID OUTFIT
time you g<> to the chemist’s see if you need anything for the household medicine chest. The home firstaid outfit should contain : A clinical thermometer (for taking, temperature). First-aid dressing (sterilised gauze for wound dressings, gauze bandages to hold dressings in place and a roll of adhesive plaster). Surgical spirit (six ounces, for rubbing. Fse externally to relieve pain from sprains, strains, bruises, and to lefresh the skin during illness). Spirits of ammonia (two ounces —a half teaspoonful in water held under the nose and smelled will stop faintness. Not to 1)0 taken internally). Uorie acid (four ounces—a teaspoeuful in glass of lukewarm water makes effective eyewash). ® , ~ Phenol ointment fused externally for small; burns). Castor oil (eight ounces—nose, one to two teaspoonfuls). Oil of cloves (a little rubbed on the gnnis for toothache). Tincture of ipecac (dose, one. teaspoonful followed 'by a drink of warm water causes vomiting).
Small pair of scissors, safety pins and cotton wool.
Keep the medicine chest in a .place well out of the reach of children and keep in it, too, any medicines that may have been prescribed by the doctor.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 75, 26 August 1938, Page 1
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189HOME FIRST-AID OUTFIT Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 75, 26 August 1938, Page 1
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