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these must be carefully arranged for in consultation with them for much 
of the success of a shikar trip depends on keeping our nowkers comfortable 
and in good humour. 
Medicines .—The tabloid and compressed drug system now so popular 
enables us to take into camp a complete medical equipment packed into a little 
case which need not exceed 5x5x2 inches. There are soloids for preparing 
lotions and tabloids for internal medication,- and Messrs. Burroughs, Welcome 
and Co. turn out pocket or saddle cases which contain assortments of drugs 
sufficient to cope with all emergencies. These are to be recommended, but it 
will be necessary to supplement them with a few simple instruments and 
surgical appliances. Appended is a list of useful medicines which may be 
solely relied on or from which a selection can be made to supplement the 
pocket case above referred to : — Cockle's Pills, Chlorodvne, Camphor Liniment, 
Vaseline, Eno’s Fruit Salt, Holloway’s Ointment, Perry Davis’s Painkiller, 
Rose W ater (for the eyes), Essence of Ginger, Kutnow’s Powder, Castor Oil 
or Jalap (for servants), Homocea (for blisters and chafes), Powdered Boracic 
Acid, Eucalyptus Oil, Friar’s Balsam, Carbolic Oil, Phenacetin, a Stick of 
Nitrate of Silver (for bites), Rigolett’s Mustard leaves (for plasters), Tincture 
of Opium fa drop or two in the eye affords instant relief from snow blindness), 
Lincel Liniment (for sprains, rheumatism, &c.) Little’s Oriental Balm (for head- 
