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U.S.S. Cairo Museum: Medical
| Ear syringes, pill tile and other medical supplies were used by the Cairo's surgeon
and the surgeon's steward, John W. Gerten, who listed his occupation prior to the war as a
butcher! |
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Close-up of tourniquet clamps (upper left), small ointment box (lower left) and rubber
arterial sutures. The sutures were pliant and elastic when salvaged from the Cairo
in 1964. |
| Parts of a scale (weight pan, arm and iron weight) were recovered along with this foot
tub which was found in the gunboat's pilot house. |
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Some of the medicine bottles recovered from the Cairo still contained their original
liquids and compounds. |
| The bottles contained such medicines as castor oil, chlorate, quinine, rhubarb, sulfur
which was an antidote for itch, zinc chloride used as an antiseptic and as an astringent,
and ferric chloride prescribed by the Cairo's surgeon as an iron tonic. |
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| Life Aboard |
Meals |
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Last
update:
Saturday, March 5, 2005
http://www.nps.gov/vick/cairo/personal.htm
Editor: R.C. Smith |
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