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the variety of first-aid equipment: sterile bandages of every shape and size, antiseptic liquids, salves, and ointments. She had long believed that cleanliness was a major factor in healing a wound. People in this day apparently agreed. |
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And then there were the medicinesso many of them, readily available to take home. Remedies for colds and coughs, stomach upsets, and every kind of pain. |
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Oh, if she only had unlimited funds, imagine the good she could do by bringing with her to the past an assortment of these! But she had no right to toy with fate. What mischief might she create should she change the past beyond what she was meant to do? |
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Still, she intended to come back early. . . . |
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She rejoined Hannah at a counter just as the housekeeper was handed a bag by a woman in a white jacket whose name tag indicated she was the pharmacist. Abby had already been pleased to learn that in these days women were not restricted by their sex from entering any professionalthough Hannah had told her they still had to work harder, often for less pay. |
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"Here's Mike's prescription," Hannah said, placing it in a plastic basket that she slipped over her arm. |
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How strange things were in this time! The medicines that Abby had understood to be "over the counter" were freely available for purchase from shelves, yet the ones subject to prescription were handed to patrons over a counter. |
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They walked to the front of the store, where |
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