WWII - The Complete First Aid Outfit Book and A.R.P. London: Odhams Press Limited, [c.1939].
4to., original red pebble-grain cloth, embossed with title and medical device to upper cover and spine; pp. 128, with numerous black and white diagrams, many full-page, and frontis showing pressure points for arterial bleeding; with original first aid kit housed in plastic front pouch containing 13 items: Boric Lint, Boric Boracic Ointment, Bandages, Ammonia, White Jaconet, Iodine Tincture, Cotton thread, Cotton Wool Pads, Burn and Finger Dressings; retaining the elastic place holders (some broken), without the small rolls of elastic plaster sometimes found; advertisment for 'The "Home" First Aid Case and 'Instructions for making and applying a hot formentation' loosely inserted; boards rubbed and bumped, as always, some finger soiling to pages and light foxing to index and rear paste-down, else a lovely fresh copy, the first aid kit with breakages to the inner plastic, as expected.
A remarkable WWII survival. This combined booklet and medical kit was intended for use by the A.R.P. (Air Raid Precaution) wardens. The text is divided into eight chapters: First Aid; Bandaging, Sprains, Dislocations and Fractures; Haemorrhage; Unconsciousness; General Accidents; High-Explosive and Incendiary Bombs; and First Aid for Gas Casualties. Sections also include information on organising evacuations and shelters. The forward has been provided by N. Corbet Fletcher, Surgeon-in-Chief of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade from 1936 to 1950.
OCLC locates copies at the British Library, Chicago, Yale, Oregan and UCLA only.
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