First Aid Equipment
THE MEDICINE CHEST.—It is not expected that the physi¬cal culturist will have a typical “medicine” chest, for there will be no giving of medicines during illness. The first-aid kit or closet may contain simple remedies for local application. To these may be added a few others. Or there may be some special place for these additional preparations and articles. The following articles and preparations, the uses for which will be readily understood, may be kept on hand: Olive oil, vaseline, boracic acid (powder and fresh solution), Baume analgesique (to rub on for pain), baking soda (bicarbonate of soda), mustard powder, lime-water, packages of sterile cotton and gauze, sterile gauze bandages (one- and two-inch widths), adhesive plaster, rolls of old flannel and linen, oiled silk or rubber tissue, fountain -syringe bag or enamel irrigat¬ing can, tips and tubing for syringing, hot-water bag, ice-bagsor ice-cap, measuring glass, eye-cup, medicine dropper, nasal douche, nebulizer, sprayer and so forth.
MEASURES.—A teaspoonful is approximately one dram; a tablespoon approximately half an ounce; one ordinary glass eight ounces; two ordinary glassfuls one pint