Conversation-lessons on prompt aid to the injured / by Henry Webb.

  • Webb, Henry.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Conversation-lessons on prompt aid to the injured / by Henry Webb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. My life has been spent amidst the manufactories of Lancashire, where many accidents occur; this, and my connection with the Bury Dispensary Hospital, as Honorary Secretary, for several years, have shown me the value of rendering “ Prompt Aid to the Injured,” whereby much suffering, and even life itself, has been saved. Having established several classes under the auspices of the St. John Ambulance Association, in which clerks, volun- teers, policemen, firemen, foremen, mechanics, ironworkers, carpenters, miners, quarrymen, porters, and operatives of all sorts have received instruction how to render “ Prompt Aid,” the men attending these classes have often said, “the lectures given and the text books used are very good, but we should understand and remember them better if the books were arranged in the form of question and answer, especially in view of the examinations.” The present work is intended to supply this felt want. It has been impossible to avoid treading over the ground already occupied by former writers on this subject, and it is not my intention to try