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1906" employers of more than ten natives are 

 required to keep at the least the following 

 drugs, &c., on hand, for use as occasion may 

 require : 



Epsom Salts. Sulphur Ointment. 



Castor Oil. Bluestone. 



Lint. Laudanum. 



Bandages. Quinine. 



Lysol or Carbolic Acid. Permanganate of Potash. 



Boric or Zinc Ointment. 



Whilst, for more than thirty natives, you 

 must stock in addition to above : 



Thermometer. Easton's Syrup. 



Surgical Knife. Crude Carbolic Acid for 



Chlorate of Potash Disinfection. 



" Tabloids." Adhesive Plaster. 



Tinct. Camphor Com- Book of Instructions. 



pound (Paregoric). 



During recent years, however, especially 

 since the above was printed, considerable im- 

 provements and inventions have been reported 

 in the drugs themselves as well as in the 

 methods of their preparation and of putting 

 them up. This has especially been the case 

 with drugs intended for use in the Tropics, 

 where ability to keep is all important, and 

 compactness a virtue to be desired. The 

 quality of quinine is particularly important. 

 Properly used, quinine spells freedom from 

 fever, but the native article is mostly bad. 

 Good quinine is as essential for personal 

 comfort in the Tropics as a pair of boots, in 



