World War I First Aid Kit: Contents and Medical Supplies

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