First aid to the injured and management of the sick : an ambulance handbook and elementary manual of nursing for volunteer bearers and others / by E.J. Lawless.

Date:
1894
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Credit: First aid to the injured and management of the sick : an ambulance handbook and elementary manual of nursing for volunteer bearers and others / by E.J. Lawless. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    INTRODUCTORY. It has been said,—and often well said,—that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and this will apply to no branch of study more than to that of ambulance work and first assistance to the wounded in the field. It may be conceded, however, that a little knowledge if thoroughly mastered and sensibly applied is by no means so contemptible, and is sure at some time to prove of benefit to its possessor, and to others; this much at least we may claim for ambulance knowledge even of an elementary order. In the course for the Army Ambulance Proficiency Certificate, it is the object of the instructor to train candi- dates to such an extent, that in the field they may be capable of removing the wounded, and may possess sufficient knowledge of such a kind as to give immediate assistance to the injured, by which suffering may be lessened, and death in many an instance averted. The minimum course of twelve instructional lectures, which it is obligatory upon every instructor to deliver, should be attended throughout, if a candidate really desires to obtain an intelligent grasp of the subjects treated of; and