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Excerpt from The Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal, Vol. 21 Need your lancet on the spot, at the moment, and here you have it in your little pocket-case. This case, further, contains two partitions for powders - room for as many as any physician requires to be carried on any one day, or perhaps longer. It is lined with silk velvet, and presents a very neat appearance. Now, with this pocket case and all the vials filled, you need nothing more for immediate or emergent use. I will state how my own case is filled, which will give a better idea of how much can be put in one, and also a guide for others who may purchase one. One two-drachm vial contains a solution of sul phate of morphia, twenty grains to the ounce, or about one-half grain to fifteen minims. This you prepare simply by putting in this vial five grains of sulphate of morphia and filling it with hot water. You require no acid to make this a perfect solution, and it remains so. You do not need a druggist to do this for you; just have a few powders of sulphate of morphine containing five grains each, accurately weighed out and put in the powder department of your case, when you can always prepare the solution when required in a few moments. Also another two-drachm vial, which contains a weaker solution for children or delicate females; mine is two grains to the vial (sij). These powders I also have weighed accurately. A third vial of the same size contains a solution of atropine, one grain to the ounce. This solution is generally required in an emer geney, and should always be in your case it keeps indefinitely. The fourth, two-drachm vial, Ihave strong alcohol in, for the pur pose of perfectly cleansing their fine or other points with, which you do by inserting the point in the vial (after it has been used) and drawing up and throwing back in the vial the alcohol two or three times, then detaching the point from the syringe and blowing out with the mouth what is left in the tube, then pass ing the wire in and out a few times, each time wiping it be tween the fingers, after which leave the wire in the point. With these directions and precautions strictly adhered to, there is no necessity for your tube ever getting closed up and thus ruined. It can all be done in one-fourth the time in which I have been writing it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.