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First Aid

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Wounds and injuries - Treatment
Assistance in emergencies
Rescue work

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  • Works from the collections
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Images from the collections

Images about First Aid

151 images from works
  • [Small British Red Cross Society first aid card, giving brief instructions on what to do].
  • Save lives : first aid : keep me handy / Dr. Martin Sagrera.
  • [Leaflet about the international work of the British Red Cross Society].
  • First aid for your dog and cat / Pedigree Petfoods.
  • The "Home" First-Aid Case : Tincture of Iodine.
  • [8 franc (with 3 franc surcharge) Belgian postage stamp (Stanley Gibbons number: 2548) to raise funds for the Red Cross. The subject is Jeunes Secouristes].
  • Take a tip from us : cotton on to Q-tips profit!.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Triangular bandage for the shoulder / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • [Card certifying proficiency in life saving and water safety (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1939 - used in 1942)].

Works from the collections

709 works

    • Ephemera

    In war-time emergencies make your water supply absolutely safe ... : what to do in emergency / Milton Proprietary Ltd.

    Milton Proprietary Ltd. | Date: [between 1940 and 1949]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

    Waller, Wathen Ernest, d.1958 | Date: 1912-1944 | Reference: GC/93
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Boer War: first aid to the wounded on the battlefield at Colenso. Process print after J.J. Waugh.

    Waugh, J. J. | Reference: 22131i
    • Books

    The Verisan home medical guide & year book 1938 / [Taylors Drug Co. Ltd].

    | Date: [1938]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Avis sur les moyens pratiques avec succes pour secourir : 1. les personnes noyés; 2. celles qui ont été suffoqués par des vapeurs méphitiques, telles que celles du charbon, du vin, des mines, &c.; 3. les enfans qui paroissent morts en naissant, & qu'il est facile d'appeler à la vie; 4. les personnes qui ont été mordues par des animaux enragés; 5. celles qui ont été empoisonnés ... / extrait des mémoires de M. Portal, médecin consultant de Monsieur de l'Académie royale des Sciences.

    Portal, Antoine, 1742-1832 | Date: 1787

Related topics

Wounds and Injuries
Military Medicine
Home Nursing
Bandages
Emergency Medical Services
United Kingdom
Nonprescription Drugs
Homeopathy
Wounds and Injuries - prevention & control
Accident Prevention

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