Here's a hiker's first aid kit list I found
from 1915! I think you will enjoy it.
PS: I did NOT make this up. Maybe we could learn from it!
-One hot-water bag, good for all pains and aches, and a comfort when one is chilly.
-One package pure ginger pulverized or ground, to make hot ginger tea in case of chill, pains in the bowels, or when you have met with an accidental ducking or are wet through to the skin by rain. Never mind if the tea does burn, ginger always stings when helping one. Be a good sport, take your medicine.
-One box of charcoal tablets for dyspepsia or indigestion.
-One package bicarbonate of soda (baking-soda); good for burns, sprinkle well with soda, see that the burn is completely covered, then cover lightly with cloth, and do not disturb it for a long time.
-One bottle of ammonia well corked. Tie the cork down firmly [95]in the bottle (Fig. 32); a flannel case or raffia covering will protect the glass from breakage. Good to smell in case of faintness, but care must be taken not to hold it too near the nose, as the ammonia might injure the delicate membranes, as would also smelling-salts. Safer to move the bottle or cloth wet with ammonia slowly back and forth near the nose. Good also for insect bites.
-One roll of adhesive plaster. Cut into lengths for holding covered ointment or poultice in place, the strips criss-cross over the poultice, but are not attached, the ends only are pressed on the bare skin to which they firmly adhere.
-Two rolls of 2-½ or 3 inch wide surgeon bandages (not gauze) for general use where bandages are needed.
-One small package of absorbent cotton.
-Two mustard plasters, purchased at drug store; good for stomachache.
-One package of powdered licorice to use as a laxative. Dissolve a little licorice in water and drink it. To keep the bowels open means to ward off a host of evils. It is even more essential that the inside of the body be kept clean than it is to have the outside clean. To this end make a practise of drinking a great deal of pure water; drink it before breakfast, between meals (not at meals), and before retiring. If you do this, you will probably not need other laxative, especially if you eat fruit either fresh or stewed. Fruit should form part of every day's fare. Keep your bowels open.
-One tube of Carron oil, to use for burns or scalds.
-One small bottle of camphor, for headaches.
-One small bag of salt—good dissolved in water, 1 teaspoonful to 1 pint of water, for bathing tired or inflamed eyes, often effects a cure. Good for bathing affected spots of ivy poison, good for sore-throat gargle, also for nosebleed; snuff, then plug nose. Good for brushing teeth. For all these dissolve salt in water in proportion as given above.
-One white muslin 24-inch triangular bandage, for arm sling or chest, jaw, and head bandage. A man's large-sized [96]white handkerchief can be used; never bind broken skin with colored cloth.
-One bottle of fly dope, warranted to keep off pestiferous flies and mosquitoes. All these may be kept in one-half of a linen case of pockets, your toilet articles in the other half, and the case can be opened out and hung to the side of your tent or shelter.
Somethings are the same, some are different. I might change my kit up a bit!
Posted by outdoorhighadventure on Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:55 pm 
