Chapter 2

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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.