we spend most of the evening and into the night counting just how many medicines , bandages , compresses , bed linens , ethers , tourniquets , diagnostic bands , blood pressure straps , stethoscopes , gowns , water purification tablets , splints , cotton swabs , clamps , jeffers root pills , adhesives , and everything else we have , sorting them out into smaller piles and spreading them across the supply cavern , right up the lip of the main tunnel .