| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
|---|
| I. | Restoring the Apparently Drowned | [27] |
| | Reviving the Patient—How to Expel Water
from the Stomach and Chest—Instructions
for Producing Respiration—When
Several Workers are at Hand—When
One must Work Alone—How to Save a
Drowning Person. | |
| II. | Heat Stroke and Electric Shock | [39] |
| | First-aid Rules—Symptoms of Heat Exhaustion—Treatment
of Heat Prostration—What
to Do in Case of Electric Shock—Symptoms—Artificial
Respiration—Mortality
in Lightning Strokes. | |
| III. | Wounds, Sprains, and Bruises | [50] |
| | Treatment of Wounds—Bleeding from Arteries
and Veins—Punctured Wounds—Oozing—Lockjaw—Bruises—Abrasions—Sprains
and Their Treatment—Synovitis—Bunions
and Felons—Weeping
Sinew—Foreign Bodies in Eye, Ear, and
Nose. | |
| IV. | Fractures | [80] |
| | How to Detect Broken Bones—Fracture
of Rib and Collar Bone—Instructions for
Applying Dressings—Bandage for Broken
Jaw—Fracture of Shoulder-blade, Arm,
Hip, Leg, and Other Bones—Compound
Fractures. | |
| V. | Dislocations | [118] |
| | Varieties of Dislocations—Method of Reducing
a Dislocated Jaw—A Dislocated
Shoulder—Indications when Elbow is Out
of Joint—Dislocation of Hip, etc.—Forms
of Bandages. | |
| VI. | Ordinary Poisons | [139] |
| | Unknown Poisons—Symptoms and Antidotes—Poisoning
by Carbolic and Other
Acids—Alkalies—Metal Poisoning—Aconite,
Belladonna, and Other Narcotics—Chloral—Opium,
Morphine, Laudanum,
Paregoric, and Soothing Sirups—Tobacco,
Strychnine, etc. | |
| VII. | Food Poisons | [147] |
| | Poisons in Shellfish and Other Food—Symptoms
and Remedies—How Bacteria
are Nourished—Infected Meat and Milk—Treatment
of Tapeworm—Trichiniasis—Potato
Poisoning. | |
| VIII. | Bites and Stings | [155] |
| | Country and City Mosquitoes—How Yellow
Fever is Communicated—Treatment
of Mosquito Bites—Bee, Wasp, and Hornet
Stings—Lice—Fleas and Flies—Centipedes
and Scorpions—Spiders—Poisonous
Snakes—Cat and Dog Bites. | |
| IX. | Burns, Scalds, Frostbites, Etc. | [171] |
| | General Rules for Treating Burns and
Scalds—Hints on Dressings—Burns
Caused by Acids and Alkalies—Remedies
for Frostbite—Care of Blisters and Sores—Chilblains—Ingrowing
Toe Nails—Fainting
and Suffocation—Fits. | |