Chapter II: Part I: Chapter Page

I. RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED 27

Reviving the Patient--How to Expel Water from the
Stomach and Chest--Instructions for Producing
Respiration--When Several Workers are at Hand--When
One must Work Alone--How to Save a Drowning Person.

II. HEAT STROKE AND ELECTRIC SHOCK 39

First-aid Rules--Symptoms of Heat
Exhaustion--Treatment of Heat Prostration--What to
Do in Case of Electric Shock--Symptoms--Artificial
Respiration--Mortality in Lightning Strokes.

III. WOUNDS, SPRAINS, AND BRUISES 50

Treatment of Wounds--Bleeding from Arteries and
Veins--Punctured Wounds--Oozing--Lockjaw--Bruises--
Abrasions--Sprains and Their Treatment--Synovitis--
Bunions and Felons--Weeping Sinew--Foreign Bodies in
Eye, Ear, and Nose.

IV. FRACTURES 80

How to Detect Broken Bones--Fracture of Rib and
Collar Bone--Instructions for Applying
Dressings--Bandage for Broken Jaw--Fracture of
Shoulder-blade, Arm, Hip, Leg, and Other
Bones--Compound Fractures.

V. DISLOCATIONS 118

Varieties of Dislocations--Method of Reducing a
Dislocated Jaw--A Dislocated Shoulder--Indications
when Elbow is Out of Joint--Dislocation of Hip,
etc.--Forms of Bandages.

VI. ORDINARY POISONS 139

Unknown Poisons--Symptoms and Antidotes--Poisoning
by Carbolic and Other Acids--Alkalies--Metal
Poisoning--Aconite, Belladonna, and Other
Narcotics--Chloral--Opium, Morphine, Laudanum,
Paregoric, and Soothing Sirups--Tobacco, Strychnine,
etc.

VII. FOOD POISONS 147

Poisons in Shellfish and Other Food--Symptoms and
Remedies--How Bacteria are Nourished--Infected Meat
and Milk--Treatment of
Tapeworm--Trichiniasis--Potato Poisoning.

VIII. BITES AND STINGS 155

Country and City Mosquitoes--How Yellow Fever is
Communicated--Treatment of Mosquito Bites--Bee,
Wasp, and Hornet Stings--Lice--Fleas and
Flies--Centipedes and Scorpions--Spiders--Poisonous
Snakes--Cat and Dog Bites.

IX. BURNS, SCALDS, FROSTBITES, ETC. 171

General Rules for Treating Burns and Scalds--Hints
on Dressings--Burns Caused by Acids and
Alkalies--Remedies for Frostbite--Care of Blisters
and Sores--Chilblains--Ingrowing Toe Nails--Fainting
and Suffocation--Fits.