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Manual on Ship Sanitation and First-Aid for Merchant Seamen, Robert W. Hart, 1923

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Manual on Ship Sanitation and First-Aid for Merchant Seamen, Robert W. Hart, 1923

By the 1920s, aspirin was well established as a necessity for first aid all around the world. This manual describes aspirin as “an extremely useful drug” and highlights a variety of uses for aspirin, including treating headache, backache, rheumatism, yellow fever, and influenza. The list of first aid essentials includes 1,000 aspirin tablets for a ship’s medicine chest.

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