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Show store them. One good method is' to tightly tie on the tops of poison bottles with double-knotted cord. This makes opening the bottle difficult dif-ficult enough to cause even the sleepiest person to glance at the label. Old medicines should be thrown out because they are often either useless or dangerous. Some lose their strength in time and 'may prolong or aggravate your illness. Others tincture of iodine, for example ex-ample become too strong as a result re-sult of evaporation of water or alcohol. al-cohol. Besides, if medicines are not thrown away when you are through with them, there is a dangerous dan-gerous temptation, next time you are ill, to take a few more swallows swal-lows without first consulting a doctor to see if you are suffering from the same ailment. With the exception of tooth pastes, shaving lotion and other such harmless toilet articles, noth ing should be put into the medicine medi-cine chest without the advice of your physician. He'll advise you that boric acid, vaseline, a good Ointment for burns and aromatic spirits of ammonia, are considered good standbys to have on hand for emergencies. Adhesive tape and sterile gauze might also be placed in the medicine chest. But remember remem-ber that after the wrapper is broken the gauze is no longer sterile. DANGER LURKS IN MEDICINE CHESTS Don't overlook the family medicine medi-cine chest while doing your spring housecleaning, warns safety experts ex-perts of the Accident Prevention department, Association of Casualty Cas-ualty and Surety Companies. The advice goes for career girls and bachelors as well as housewives, because a sip from the wrong bottle can be fatal. Two main, rules to remember regarding your medicine chest or the shelf where you keep the family fam-ily dosages is (1) keep poisons away and (2) discard leftover medicines as soon as you stop using us-ing them. Most adults are careful enough to keep medicine chests high enough to be out of reach of small children, the department reports, but there remains the danger of adults grabbing the wrong bottles when they sleepily reach for something some-thing in the middle of the night. A lethal bottle of poison may feel like the cough medicine in the dark, but the results get rid of you as well as the cough. Always turn the light on when getting something out of your medicine chest, warns the Accident Prevention Preven-tion Department, and take the double precaution of marking poison poi-son bottles, no matter where you |