| Show S t c SW S 4 5 ic I S S 5 S v 0 S Heres Here's what your canned victory garden food shelf will look like next fall if f you get busy planning and canning early this season Besides the variety of serve ready foods which such an assembly of home-canned home foods contributes t to the winter diet this particular lar display represents a saving of 1626 blue ration points or as many as you will have to spend for a family of four in 81 2 months Isn't that something Start planning now for the whole canning season Know what you want to can and schedule your canning as accurately as possible By spreading it if over the whole growing season from May to October it if wont won't interfere with your regular work except perhaps during the peach season which is short for inexpensive locally grown fruit You will be rewarded for every minute of thought and labor when you stand in front of your very own canned food shelves next fall and rejoice at your contribution contribution tion to victory and the health of your family Cut this picture out and save it if Meta Mets Given will refer to it if once each month during the canning season Your Family Doctor War Lesson Use a nil imide as Help By Dr Thomas D. D Masters A superficial wound such as an abrasion or laceration of the skin is chiefly Important as a a. portal of entry for Infection Whoever undertakes the care of simple wounds like a a. cut finger a a. needle puncture or a skinned knee must first avoid introducing introducing introducing ing infection and then try to eliminate any infection carried Into the wound by accident The attendant should first wash his own hands carefully several times with soap and water water highly highly effective as a dis dis- He may then apply rubbing alcohol if available to the cleansed hands The hands should be left wet unless sterile towels are available The wound should be washed also with soap and water applied freely and then the same rubbing alcohol applied The popular antiseptics such as tincture of iodine or hydrogen hydrogen hydrogen hydro hydro- gen peroxide are still standard treatment but the great success the military forces have had with suggest that this this new antiseptic should take priority in ordinary lacerations and abrasions occurring in civilIan civilian civilian civil civil- ian life also Mortality through infection in battle wounds has bee en cut to toa toa a a. fraction of that suffered in previous us wars wars thanks thanks to the free required use of sulfa drugs Every hospital is equipped with supplies of and its use Is routine there It Is not yet widespread in home use but butwill butwill butwill will become more and more common common cornmon com corn mon as a topical application The oral use of the sulfonamides must be restricted to those thos under Under tinder un Un- der the care of a physician Ifs If's Inexpensive powder is Inexpensive inexpensive inex Inex- pensive and obtainable in bulk or in small envelopes suitable for a a. first-aid first kit in home use The powder may be shaken directly onto the wound It should be applied so that it gives a a. frosted appearance The wound may then be covered with a sterile gauze bandage Such ready-prepared ready bandages should be a a. part of any first-aid first equipment or medicine chest but if they are not available a freshly laundered handkerchief or towel will also serve relatively relative relative- ly Jy well S The he dressing should be kept In place several days Frequent changes of dressing simply Increase increase in increase In- In crease the opportunity of Introducing Introducing introducing intro Intro- infection It is obvious that if it the wound becomes unusually unusually un un- usually painful or the adjacent region swollen and red professional professional professional care should be sought Ambrose Pare the great French military surgeon once said I Idress dress them wounds and God cures them Had sul suI- sul- sul been available to Pare he might have claimed more credit for himself as physician physician physician phy phy- i |
