What medicine was in the personal first aid kit World War 1?
A typical World War I first aid kit contained the following items:
- Morphine Syrette:
- Omnopon Tablets
- Tourniquet
- Small First Field Dressing
- Large First Field Dressing
- Three-inch (8 cm) Gauze roller bandage
- Two-inch (5 cm) Gauze roller bandage
- Plain Gauze
- Cotton Wool
- Zinc Oxide Plaster
- Safety Pins
- Scissors
- Forceps
- Splints
- Antiseptic solution
- Iodine swabs
- Sal volatile (ammonia solution)
- Aromatic spirits of ammonia (smelling salts)
- Castor Oil
- Potassium Permanganate
- Carbolic Oil
- Boracic Ointment
- Vaseline
- Glycerine
- Toothache Tincture
- Snakebite kit
- Sunburn lotion
- Lip balm
- Insect repellent
