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IV. MEDICINES AND MEDICAL COMFORTS
(including instruments and veterinary medicine)
Article Quantity Rate Amount
Drugs, miscellaneous --- --- £ 49 17/ 11d
(selected by Dr Beckler at Messrs E and M Keogh's La Trobe Street West)
Medical Comforts
Arrowroot 6 lb 1/0 £ 0 6/ 0d
--do-- Brandy 4 gallons 25/6 per gallon £ 5 2/ 0d
Instruments (Selected by Dr Beckler)
Surgeons Field Case 1 --- £ 12 12/ 0d
Cupping Apparatus, complete 1 --- £ 6 15/ 0d
Syringes, metal 6 1/0 £ 0 6/ 0d
Syringes, enema 1 --- £ 0 13/ 0d
Leg Splints 2 sets 6/0 £ 0 12/ 0d
Arm Splints 2 sets 6/0 £ 0 12/ 0d
Dressings Forceps 1 --- £ 0 7/ 6d
Surgical Needles 24 0/6 £ 0 12/ 0d
Silver Probe, grooved 1 --- £ 0 3/ 6d
Caustic Holder 1 --- £ 0 5/ 0d
Blunt Hooks 2 7/6 £ 0 15/ 0d
Spatula (Bolus Knife) 1 --- £ 0 1/ 6d
Scales and Weights 1 set --- £ 0 5/ 0d
Veterinary Instruments and Medicines (for camels as selected by Mr Landells) --- --- £ 52 1/ 11d
Rum, for camels 60 gallons --- £ 48 0/ 0d
Veterinary Instruments and Medicines (for horses) --- --- £ 69 8/ 10d
Pepper, (for camels, applied for by Mr Burke by telegram from Swan Hill) 20 lb --- £ 0 15/ 0d
TOTAL FOR MEDICINES &c £249 11/ 2d
 
     
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