RT Journal
T1 AMerican national red cross text-book on first aid and relief columns.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD April 3
VO LII
IS 14
SP 1138
OP 1138
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540400064031
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540400064031
AB This is the first of a series of text-books prepared for and indorsed by the American National Red Cross. The book is compact, concise and clearly written, and in addition to the subjects ordinarily considered in first-aid text-books, contains, as [ill] special section under each head, suggestions for the prevention of accidents, injuries and illness. In addition to individual first aid, the book treats of first aid as rendered by relief columns, bodies designed to administer first aid as organization. Well-illustrated instructions are given for the transportation of the wounded, sick and injured, based on the drill regulations of the Hospital Corps of the Army. The book first gives a brief description of the anatomy and physiology of the body; next considers the matter of germs or micro-organisms, describesand illustrates first-aid materials, and gives general directions for rendering first aid, and then takes up specialties as regards shock, common accidents