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In my story, a student at a school has fallen out a window and all the students have access to is the school first aid kit. They want to give this poor guy some painkillers, so what sort of painkiller would they have access to? Would there be morphine in the kit, or... what would they be able to use?

Thank you!

Morphine was commonly used as a cough suppressant in addition to being a painkiller, so it's a pretty good bet that there would be morphine or morphine-derived painkillers available. Then again, they began pulling morphine from public use around that time if I recall correctly... The school may still have morphine, though, since schools are cheap and rarely clean out their first aid kits (from what I've seen).

Anyways. Aspirin is another long-time staple, though depending on how wounded the student is, giving him aspirin could be a very bad idea is it thins the blood, leading to a drop in blood pressure in addition to a potential bleed-out.

Other than that, there really weren't that many painkillers. Still aren't.

Thank you very much, that was very helpful
I also looked up the answer on google, and I'm pleased to say that google supported your answer. Good on you!