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Show NOW USING TINCTURE OF IODINE. Use tincture of iodine on wounds That is the instruction that is now given by surgeons We find In a daily letter by one of our leading doctors this advice, which should prove valuable val-uable Tincture of Iodine Is to be had moHt anywhere. Most first aid packets contain It. Those that do not should. 1 If It is not in the first aid packet I most stores that carry even a small box of drugs have tincture of iodine The surgeons are now using this solution for antiseptic purposes nearly altogether. They 'seldom make a cut I through the skin without first painting paint-ing the skin with iodine, it rapidly kills the forms of bacteria, found on the akin and in the clothing. A man who has a skin wound can pour some Iodine Into it or swab t with iodine, put on a clean soft, loose dressing, and foel that the wound is sterile and not liable to become in fectcd The man who gets a compound fracture frac-ture in the mountains ot anywhere away from a good base can pour some iodine into the wound, cover it over with clean cloth, bandage the limb securely to a board so as to hold the frajrments Rio.uly and then In good order fall back on some place vhere pood treatnrwnt can be had |