| This illustrated manual outlines the causes and symptoms of certain medical emergencies and steps to follow in dealing with them; the emergencies include state of shock, haemorrhage, asphyxiation, fractures (of many kinds), wounds, burns, fevers, filariasis, dysentery, poisoning, malnutrition, sunstroke, sleeping sickness, leprosy, meningitis, measles, and childbirth. Detailed instructions are given for applying a tourniquet, giving artificial respiration, setting bones, bandaging wounds, the sick, etc., and illustrations show disease transmission via unsanitary conditions, vectors, and parasites. The book is particularly geared toward African readership. |