250 MODERN PIG-STICKING 



Calico Bandages, 3 yards long 

 and 3 inches wide. 



Tape. 



Silk suture thread and cat- 

 gut. 



Thin muslin ad lib. 



Boracic cotton-wool. 



Pound packets of ordinary 



cotton-wool. 

 Medicated tow. 



It is much better to have a really sufficient supply of 

 useful drugs and appliances than a superfluity of things 

 seldom or never used, and I consider the above ought to 

 meet most emergencies out pig-sticking. 



Human 



With human beings the chief ailments you must 

 expect to meet are wounds, broken bones, fever, 

 cholera, plague, and snake-bite. 



A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. When 

 H and I were out after tiger, he was our doctor by 

 mutual consent. In one village they brought him 

 a baby with an enlarged stomach, such as nearly 

 all native children have. Perhaps it was excessive. 

 Anyway, H pronounced it to be suffering from 

 enlarged spleen, and gave it a fearsome dose : we 

 were very young. The child died. 



I am keen on surgery. Unluckily, so are some 

 of my friends. One especially looks with longing 

 eyes on every case to exercise a gift which he regards 

 as sent from Heaven. Fitted as he is with all 

 implements and chloroform I am ever in terror lest, 

 in some temporary absence of mind after a fall, I 

 may wake to find myself sans tongue or limb from 

 his kindly ministrations. Still, gifted or not, if a 

 serious accident happens and there is no doctor out, 

 you must do something. Therefore the more you 

 know the better. 



