adding such other instruments as seemed
to me likely to be useful. With few exceptions, therefore, designed to
meet emergencies, my set of instruments formed a supplement to the
actual necessities carried by the Service hospitals, and was as
follows:--4 trephines, Horsley's elevator, brain knife and seeker. 2
pairs of Hoffman's and 1 pair of Lane's fulcrum gouge forceps, 3 bone
gouges, 1 pair straight 1 curved necrosis forceps, 1 pair bone forceps.
1 Wood's 1 Horsley's skull saws, 18 Gigli's saws with an extra handle,
and two Podrez' directors for the same. 1 set Lane's bone drills,
broaches, screw-drivers, and counter-sink with eight ounces of screws:
silver patella wire, and 1 pair Peter's bone forceps. 2 aneurism
needles, 1 bullet probe, 1 pair Egyptian Army pattern bullet forceps. 4
Lane's and 3 pairs Makins's bowel clamps, Nos. 3 4 and 5 Laplace's
bowel forceps, 6 Murphy's buttons, 1 pair Morris's retractors, 6 dozen
intestine needles, 2 Macphail's needle-holders, Nos. 4 5 6 Thomas's
slot-eyed needles, 1 mouth gag, 1 Durham's double raspatory, 3 strong
plated raspatories, 1 pair tongue forceps, 1 tracheal dilator, 1 pair
hernia needles, 1 hernia and 1 ordinary steel director, 1 transfusion
set with metal funnel, and a stock of Messrs. Burroughes and Wellcome's
compound saline infusion soloids. 1 antitoxin syringe. 6 scalpels, 2
blunt-pointed curved bistouries, 6 forcipressure forceps, 1 pair Jordan
Lloyd's retractors, 1 pair ordinary retractors, 2 pairs of forceps, 3
pairs of Scissors, 1 skin-grafting razor and roll of perforated tin
foil, 1 metal pocket case, and 1 hypodermic syringe with tabloids. A
stock of silkworm gut, horsehair and silk ligatures, the latter prepared
and sterilised for me by Miss Taylor, the Theatre Sister at St. Thomas's
Hospital. Some pairs of McBurney's india-rubber, and cotton-thread
operating gloves.

[Illustration: FIG. 2.--Instrument Holdall rolled]

The instruments were packed in sets in small linen holdalls suggested
and made by Messrs. Down Bros., who also devised my satchel. In the
light of the experience gained I should have preferred a tin case to the
satchel, as it never needed to be carried on horseback.

For dressings I trusted entirely to the Royal Army Medical Corps, and at
my request Colonel Gubbins, R.A.M.C., sent out to the Cape a quantity
of sterilised sponges and pads made by Messrs. Robinson & Co. Ltd. of
Chesterfield, which fully met all requirements in this direct