First aid ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes instructions on what to do when bitten by a viper (or adder) in 1736 and 1798, restoring the apparently drowned (Royal National Life-Boat Association - 1897, 1904) and instances of intense cold, hanging, suffocation, being hit by lightning, sparians, fractures, bleeding, poisoning, insensibility, home nursing, Royal Humane Society, bandaging, applying the Hayes splint, Boots' Tincture of Iodine, and Home first-aid cases, first aid after an air raid (1940), Alfred Parker (Uttoxeter) and his 'sick room requisites including enemas, chest protectors, bed pans, inhalers, feeding cups, bronchitis kettles etc., wounds and scratches, 'A modern accident and emergency unit: the resuscitation room' (1968), Cuxson Gerrard & Co. Ltd.'s 'Compactoid' first aid outfit, first aid training courses (1999), homeopathy for bumps and bruises, IPS Healthcare, micro spirometer, holiday first aid kits, emergency eye wash, hydrofluoric acid burns (H-F Antidote gel), heat pads for muscular pain, adhesive magnetic discs for pain relief, wheelchairs and carrying chairs, resuscitation devices, Johnson & Johnson's Life Aid resuscitator, Medic Alert 'personal emergency medical information system', British Red Cross, occupational therapy and disability, Maw's Waterproof Court Plaster(sample), S. Stephens (chemist & optician : Milnsbridge)'s Absorbent Cotton Wool and Antiseptic Powder for the feet, 'First aid for the family' (leaflet : A+M Heating & Cooling Co. (Detroit), 'Handi emergency aid advisor' (Hand-Shop, St. Louis, Mo.), "I am a patient on steroid treatment which must not be stopped abruptly..." (2 cards : 1972, 1979).