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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV Taking the Place of the Doctor A Knowledge of the various principles of first aid in the efficient treatment of the ailments encountered on the wilderness trail should be taken as a solemn responsibility. Once you come face to face with an accident which endangers the life of yourself or a companion, you will realize how indispensable is this ability to meet the exigencies incidental to active outdoor life--exigencies which force you alone to act, because first aid is generally required where one cannot shift the responsibility by stepping to a telephone and acquiring the assistance of an expert who is trained in all the methods of the healing craft. First aid does not rival the physician, but simply takes his place as an emergency measure. You should meet the responsibility with preparedness as to an understanding of methods and an efficient first-aid kit. Health risks may present themselves in endless variety, and votaries of the vacation idea will sometime find use for a compact kit of a few remedies and certain surgical indispensables. This security, coupled with an alert disposition to make efficient use of what else lies readiest at hand, will go far toward meeting emergency requirements, and meeting them not alone sympathetically but practically and, to a degree dependent upon previous study and training, scientifically. Recognizing that accidents occur in spite of all precautions and that they are usually met with under certain conditions of unpreparedness, the first attention is to decide whether the mishap is obviously serious or delusively trifling, and then to meet the emergency with promptness, cleanliness, and a selection of such curative measures as will safeguard life. A certain physician of the generation...



Title: Trail Craft; An Aid in Getting the Greatest Good Out of Vacation Trips

Author: Claude Powell Fordyce

Published September 12th 2013 by Theclassics.Us

ISBN: 9781230252681

Language: English

Series: None

Length: Paperback, 50 pages




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