The Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, and the St. John Ambulance Association / compiled by Captain Gildea.

  • Gildea, James, 1838-1920.
Date:
1881
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Credit: The Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, and the St. John Ambulance Association / compiled by Captain Gildea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    u that he had received a most severe scali) wound, and knew by th(. blood jetting out, that he had severed an artery. He at once bandaged him with his pocket-handkerchief and brought him to the Central Police Station, where he properly bandaged him with a St. John's bandage, and then took him to the hospital. Dr. Rich, who received him, stated that had he not been bandaged, he would have bled to death. The great usefulness of the St. John Ambulance Association has been exemplified during the last week under the following circumstances:—A wine merchant of Tunbridge Wells a few days ago was bottling off port wine, and, as is often the case, the neck of the bottle broke, and inflicted a rather severe wound on the hand. Mr. S. Meager (who holds a certificate from the Ambulance Association) happened to be upon the spot, and at once attended to the wound, binding the hand up in a proper manner until the aid of a surgeon could be procured. Mr. Austen, engaged at the Galvanized Iron Works, Green- wich, an'ested severe hoemorrhage from a severed radial artery until the arrival of medical aid, and probably saved his fellow- workman's life. Mr. Austin also splinted, to the entire satis- faction of the surgeon at the hospital where the patient was sent, by improvised means, a broken fore-arm. A little girl living at Blackheath put her hand through a pane of glass and cut the artery in the j^alm. Her father, wlio had attended the Blackheath lectures, arrested the profuse bleeding which ensued by applying pressure to the brachial artery. Mr. Ernest TurnbuU prevented a compound fracture by splinting with umbrellas and handkerchiefs the broken leg of a patient who had fallen on the asphalte in the Eltham Eoad. Mr. Sancto, lodge-keeper at the Paragon, Blackheath, saved the life of a road-mender by arresting the bleeding of an artery in the foot, wounded by the point of a pickaxe. I saw the other morning on the Waterloo-bridge Line an instance of how useful is the Ambulance instruction which the St. John Ambulance Association has been giving in various parts of the kingdom lately. A man employed on the line let a sleeper fall upon his ankle and severely injured liis leg. Immediately another workmen who had been instructed in Ambulance work came up, examined the limb, told exactly what to do with it,