First aid in the Royal Navy 1943 / [Admiralty].

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1943
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Credit: First aid in the Royal Navy 1943 / [Admiralty]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    things. Also, Eve’s method cannot do any harm such as may be caused by rough use of Schafer’s method, for example, bruising the contents of the belly, or fracturing a rib by too great pressure. Rigging the stretcher, by using a length of rope and a few nails, can always be done in a very short time when the need arises. No preparations are essential. Another way of performing rocking does depend on preparation beforehand. Stretchers may have blocks attached and trestles may be made; then rocking can be done as shown in figures 61 and 62. In place of a trestle, an iron bar resting on, for example, kit lockers or benches would provide an alternative pivot on which a stretcher could be rocked. MiGeour icy oe Eve's method. Rocking with trestle as pivot. The Novox oxygen giving apparatus may be used while either of these two methods of artificial respiration are being given. With Eve’s method the box container should be placed on a table close to the middle of the stretcher; then the tubing is long enough to follow the swing of the head. Some of the causes of suffocation are described elsewhere in this book, but others are dealt with now. 8O