| 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. |
PART II
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | Contagious Maladies | [191] |
| Symptoms and Treatment of Scarlet Fever—Diagnosis—Duration of Contagion—Difference Between True and German Measles—Smallpox—Cure a Matter of Good Nursing—Chickenpox. | ||
| II. | Infectious Diseases | [221] |
| Typhoid Fever—Symptoms and Modes of Communication—Duration of the Disease—The Death Rate—Importance of Bathing—Diet—Remedies for Whooping Cough—Mumps—Erysipelas. | ||
| III. | Malaria and Yellow Fever | [247] |
| Malaria Caused by Mosquitoes—Distribution of the Disease—Severe and Mild Types—Prevention and Treatment—Yellow Fever not a Contagious Disease—Course of the Malady—Watchful Care and Diet the only Remedies. |
INDEX
To First Aid and General Topics
Note.—The Roman numerals I, II, III, IV, V, and VI indicate the volume; the Arabic figures 1, 2, 3, etc., indicate the page number.
Abrasions, I, [64]
Abscess, alveolar, II, 58