Equipment of the Nurse’s Bag.—Some of the things which every nurse should carry in her bag are—a clinical thermometer; a pair of surgical scissors and forceps; a bottle of brandy; a hypodermic syringe; a fountain syringe; two glass catheters; a flexible catheter; small bottles of corrosive sublimate tablets; carbolic acid; permanganate-of-potash crystals; oxalic-acid crystals and washing soda; rubber tubing; a razor; large and small safety-pins; needles and white thread; one-ounce graduated minim-glass; a medicine-dropper; temperature and nourishment charts; gauze sponges of various sizes; a small ice-pick; matches.

   A fountain syringe will be found very handy in private practice. It can be used for a number of things—to wash out the stomach and bladder, for douches, as an irrigator, and the rubber-tubing attachment can be detached and used as a tourniquet.

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