Backwoods Surgery & Medicine

Every summer outdoor America leaves the heat and dust and turmoil of the city for the peace and quiet of the wild. Doubtless many persons penetrate, in their outing, regions whe...

In speaking of fractures and dislocations I did not dream it necessary to suggest anything in the way of a surgical kit. The element of instruments other than bandages does not...

In this day of compact pharmaceuticals one can carry a complete equipment of medicines in a vest pocket almost. The old day of ponderous powders and nauseating liquids has passe...

Several years ago I stood beside a cot in a hunter's cabin in the heart of the Bitter Root Mountains in Idaho, after a three days' ride, and watched a valuable young life go out...