Part 21 (1/2)

The importance of a visit to the dentist before coming to camp cannot be over-estimated. Every one knows the torture of a toothache, and realizes how unbearable it must be for a boy away from home and among other boys, sympathetic, of course, but busy having a good time, and with only a few patent gums to relieve the misery, and the dentist perhaps not available for two days. Parents cannot have this point too forcibly thrust upon them, as by even a single visit to a competent dentist all the sufferings of toothache may usually be prevented.

Surgical Supplies

The following list of surgical supplies will be found necessary. The quant.i.ty must be determined by the size of the camp, and the price by the firm from whom purchased.

Surgical Supplies

One-half dozen a.s.sorted gauze bandages, sizes one to three inches, 10 cents each.

Two yards sterilized plain gauze in carton, 20 cents a yard.

One roll three-inch adhesive plaster, $1.00.

One paper medium size safety pins, 10 cents.

One paper medium size common pins, 5 cents.

Four ounces sterilized absorbent cotton in cartons, 20 cents.

One-half dozen a.s.sorted egg-eyed surgeon's needles, straight to full curve, 50 cents.

One card braided silk ligature, a.s.sorted in one card (white), about 30 cents.

One hundred ordinary corrosive sublimate tablets, 25 cents.

Small surgical instrument set, comprising (F. H. Thomas Co., Boston, Ma.s.s., $3.50).

2 scalpels Forceps Director Probe Curette Scissors

One Hypodermic Syringe, all metal, in metal case, $1.50.

One Fountain Syringe (for enemata and ears).

One one-minute clinical thermometer in rubber case, $1.25. Get best registered instrument.

One number nine soft rubber catheter, 25 cents.

Small bottle collodion[1] with brush.

One-quarter pound Boric acid powder, 25 cents.

Four ounces Boric acid ointment, 50 cents.

One-quarter pound Boric acid crystals, 25 cents. Carbolic Acid, 95 cents.

Hypodermic tablets, cocaine hydro-chlorate, 1-1/8 grain, making in two drachms sterile water or one per cent solution. (To be used by Physician only.) Alcohol, 80 per cent.

Sulpho Napthol.

Iodoform gauze.

Chloroform liniment.

[Transcriber's Footnote 1: collodion: Flammable, colorless or yellowish syrupy solution of pyroxylin, ether, and alcohol, used as an adhesive to close small wounds and hold surgical dressings, in topical medications, and for making photographic plates.]

With the above list the ingenious man can perform practically every surgical operation that he would care to undertake.

For ”First Aid” demonstration work you will need a number of Red Cross Outfits. 25 cents each. (31 cents postpaid.)

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