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The supplies should all be in the home and ready, as the seventh month of pregnancy draws near. In the first place, select the drawer or closet shelf where the supplies are to remain, untouched, until your physician orders them brought out. The supplies requiring special preparation and sterilization are:

Three pounds of absorbent cotton.	Twelve old towels or diapers.
One large package of sterile gauze (25 yards).	One yard of strong narrow tape for tying the cord.
Four rolls of cotton batting.	Three short obstetrical gowns for the patient.
Two yards of stout muslin for abdominal binders.	Two pairs of extra long white stockings.
Two old sheets.	Four T-binders.

Other articles needed by physician, nurse, and patient are:

Fifty bichloride of mercury tablets (plainly marked "poison").	One good sized douche pan.
Four ounces of lysol.	Three agateware bowls, holding two quarts each.
Two ounces of powdered boric acid.	Two agateware pitchers, holding two quarts each.
One half ounce of 20% argyrol.	Two stiff hand-brushes.
One quart of grain alcohol.	One nail file.
One pound jar of surgeon's green soap.	One pair surgeon's rubber gloves.
One half pound of castile soap.	One and one-half yards rubber sheeting 36 inches wide.
One bottle white vaseline.	Two No. 2 rubber catheters.
One drinking tube.	Two dozen large safety pins.
One medicine glass.	Small package of tooth picks, to be used as applicators.
One two-quart fountain syringe.	Six breast binders (Fig. 5).
One covered enamel bucket or slop jar.	Six sheets.

Just before confinement send for one ounce of fluid extract of ergot and an original pint bottle of Squibb's Chloroform.