FITNESS AND GENERAL HEALTH 13 



cation to get up a good circulation in the part, and 

 then suddenly dash over cold water. This will take 

 out the stiffness and reduce any swelling. 



An old Boer remedy for sore backs, which the author 

 has used with success, is equal parts of salt and pepper 

 mixed and pressed well in and on the sore place. 

 Another remedy is to wash the sore with permanganate 

 of potash and apply Stockholm tar, a small pot of 

 which might be added to the stores. 



Instruments. — There is no need to comment on 

 the bandages and instruments except to say more 

 than one clinical thermometer should be taken. 

 Never neglect the use of this instrument — it is a sure 

 guide to fever coming on — and at all times consult it 

 when feeling out of sorts, for a heightened tempera- 

 ture usually means deranged health. The hypo- 

 dermic syringe need not be taken if the traveller does 

 not understand its use. 



The snake-bite lancet should be always in the 

 pocket ; and the curved needles and silk are useful for 

 bad cuts and gaping wounds and easily manipulated. 

 If snake bite occurs, thoroughly scarify the part, 

 put in crystals of permanganate, and give doses of 

 brandy or some other stimulant. If the use of the 

 hypodermic syringe is understood an injection of 

 strychnine may check collapse. 



To remove adhesive plaster run in a little spirit 

 or petrol, and it will peel off without giving the 

 subject any pain by pulling at the hairs. 



