According to Practical Points in Nursing, here are the items a nurse in private practice should carry in her bag:

• 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

Just wait until some of the later chapters when we learn what some of these things will be used for. And Dr. McCoy thought the 1980’s were the dark ages of medicine!

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