PRACTICAL FIRST AID
\ man once said that in an accident
the best thing is “presence of mind
and absence of body.”
Every emergency will collect its
crowd of curious onlookers, hysterical
sympathizers, and meddlesome ad
visers. The first-aid administrator
must have enough force to do two
things: to dominate these people
made stupid by their curiosity, and to
control the patient.
The crowd should be kept at a dis
tance, or, better yet. the patient moved
to a more secluded spot. As for the
sufferer, the first thing to do is to
calm him, to assure him that he is not
dangerously hurt—even if you don’t
believe it.
A man's success as a first-aid sur
geon depends on his own inventive
ness.
In the International Journal of Sur
gery Dr. J. A. Hofheimer, to illustrate
what can lie clone to save life and re
lieve suffering, tells some of his own
experiences. < hie of these was of a
boy who fell from a tree and frac
tured both bones in his right forearm.
The village doctor said he could do
nothing until the next day. when he
would send to another town, ten miles
away, for bandages and splints. In
the meantime the \x>y was in great
suffering.
"We procured an empty cigar box.
an old sheet, and a section of old
stuffed quilt, and improvised a good
fracture f>ox by knocking out the
c-nds of the cigar Ixix ancl lining it
thickly with the wadding from the
qtiib This was adjusted to the arm
by bandages made from strips of the
sheet. A small dose of paregoric
quieted the Iroy’s nerves. Liter, the
Ixn's own physician wrote- that lie had
not removed the emergency dressing
for two weeks and that the results
were excellent."
\ question that always arises in an
emergency is
What kind of antiseptic can we
n-.e'r' There is no better way of
cleansing a wound than with boiled
froth motor
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