Ambulance hand-book : on the principles of first-aid to the injured / by Sir George Thomas Beatson.

  • George Beatson
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Ambulance hand-book : on the principles of first-aid to the injured / by Sir George Thomas Beatson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Seeing that there are already in existence several excellent hand-books on first-aid to the injured and to those taken suddenly ill, a word of explanation is called for as to the appearance of another one. The present volume was undertaken in response to the requests of the Committee of the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association, who felt that uniformity of instruction and teaching would be better assured if the Association issued a text-book of its own; while, it was hoped, the sale of such a work might prove to some extent a source of revenue. Accordingly, in carrying out the work, I have taken the syllabus of the lectures of the St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association as a guide, and consequently the book contains the gist of the lectures I was in the habit of delivering at one time for the Association. The plan adopted is to give a short account of the anatomy and physiology of each set of organs or system in the body, and immediately afterwards to treat of their affections and injuries with the appropriate first-aid. This has been done perhaps more at length than in most of the hand-books already published, but I have felt that in a work for non-professional readers everything should be clearly and fully stated, as it is only in this way that the Ambulance pupil can gain an intelligent know-
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