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filled with this and slipped under the patient's 

 blanket may add much to his safety and comfort; or 

 a hot stone wrapped in cloth may be utilized as a 

 substitute. And the device isn't so bad for cold 

 nights even for the camper who is perfectly well. 



And don't forget that first-aid kit. It should in- 

 clude some compound cathartic pills or cascara laxa- 

 tive, two-grain capsules of muriate of quinine, five- 

 grain aspirin tablets, " Sun " cholera tablets, a few 

 two-inch gauze roller-bandages with small cartons 

 of absorbent cotton and sterile gauze, tincture of 

 iodine, some needles with catgut sutures in alcohol 

 in tubes ready for use, a couple of artery clamps, 

 some surgeons' plaster, and a hypodermic syringe 

 with a few strychnine, cocaine, and morphine tablets 

 for use with same. Before you leave home have a 

 chat with your family doctor and make a memo- 

 randum of what he says about just when and how 

 these things are to be used in an emergency. And 

 though you probably will escape the necessity for 

 the use of any of them for yourself or your im- 

 mediate party, it is very satisfactory when you are 

 enabled to play the " friend in need " to some mem- 

 ber of another outfit or to some honest, whole-souled 

 farmer, far from any source of prompt medical re- 

 lief. 



A mosquito-dope that is cleanly, and about as ef- 

 ficacious as any, is a mixture of one ounce each of 

 creosote, oils of citronella and of pennyroyal, with 



