Two yards of stout muslin for abdominal binders.
Two old sheets.
Twelve old towels or diapers.
One yard of strong narrow tape for tying the cord.
Three short obstetrical gowns for the patient.
Two pairs of extra long white stockings.
Four T-binders.

Other articles needed by physician, nurse, and patient are:

Fifty bichloride of mercury tablets (plainly marked "_poison_").
Four ounces of lysol.
Two ounces of powdered boric acid.
One half ounce of 20% argyrol.
One quart of grain alcohol.
One pound jar of surgeon's green soap.
One half pound of castile soap.
One bottle white vaseline.
One drinking tube.
One medicine glass.
One two-quart fountain syringe.
One covered enamel bucket or slop jar.
One good sized douche pan.
Three agateware bowls, holding two quarts each.
Two agateware pitchers, holding two quarts each.
Two stiff hand-brushes.
One nail file.
One pair surgeon's rubber gloves.
One and one-half yards rubber sheeting 36 inches wide.
Two No. 2 rubber catheters.
Two dozen large safety pins.
Small package of tooth picks, to be used as applicators.
Six breast binders (Fig. 5).
Six sheets.

Just before confinement send for one ounce of fluid extract of ergot
and an original pint bottle of Squibb's Chloroform.

THE PREPARATION OF THE SUPPLIES

1. _The sanitary pad_ is used to absorb the lochia after confinement,
and needs to be changed many times during the day and night; fully
five or six dozen will be required. They are usually made from cotton
batting and a generous layer of absorbent cotton. If made entirely
from absorbent cotton they mat down into a rope-like condition. They
are four and one-half to five inches wide and ten inches long. The
sterile cheesecloth is cut large enough to wrap around the cotton
filling and extends at both ends three inches, by which it is
fastened to the abdominal binder. With a dozen or fifteen in each
package these vulva pads are wrapped loosely in pieces of old sheets
and pinned securely and marked plainly on the outside.

2. _Delivery pads._ These pads should be thirty-six inches square and
about five inches thick, three or four inches of which may be the
cotton batting and the remainder absorbent cotton. Three of these are
needed. Each should be folded, wrapped in a piece of cloth and
likewise marked.

3. _Gauze squares._ Five dozen gauze squares about four inches in size
may be cut, wrapped and mark