1. What is the best insurance against accidents? 2. Why do most cuts and scratches heal quickly, while some others do not? 3. What kind of dirt is dangerous to wounds? 4. If your knife should slip and cut you, how ought you to take care of the cut? 5. If you know the knife is dirty, what is the proper treatment? 6. Is "sticking-plaster" good for a wound? Why not? 7. Why does absorbent cotton make a good dressing? 8. Give two reasons why doctors can perform surgical operations now much more safely than some years ago. 9. Why must surgeons and nurses keep themselves and their patients perfectly clean? 10. What difference has this cleanliness made in the saving of life? 11. What is the treatment for bruises? Why are they not so dangerous as cuts? 12. What are boils and carbuncles? 13. How do we clean and heal them? 14. Where blood comes in spurts from a cut, what does this mean? 15. How does the blood itself protect us against infection in wounds? 16. If the wound is very deep, how can you check the bleeding? 17. Why should the tight bandage be slightly loosened in half an hour after it has been applied? 18. Why is it that we do not need to clean a burn? 19. Why is it wise to keep the air from a burn? How may it be done? 20. Why must the dressings be perfectly clean? 21. Why do we need a doctor in the case of a broken bone? 22. If you can't get a doctor, what is to be done? 23. What is a sprain? Tell how to bathe and bandage it. 24. In the case of swallowing poison, why should one drink warm water? 25. What else should be done? 26. What should be given when lye has been swallowed? 27. What is the important thing to remember in any such case? 28. If you fall into deep water, what four things should you remember? 29. Explain carefully just how to revive a person who has been under water. 30. What is the main purpose of this method? GLOSSARY OF IMPORTANT TERMS USED IN THE BOOK [Transcriber's note: In the following section vowels are transcribed as: [)vowel] with breve [=vowel] with macron [.vowel] with dot above] I. RELATING TO THE BODY AS A WHOLE Ab'do men (or [)a]b d[=o]'m[)e]n). The cavity of the trunk immediately below the diaphragm. Car'ti lage. Tough, elastic tissue, generally more or less fibrous; called also gristle (gr[)i]s'l). Cell. The simplest form of living matter, with power to grow, develop, reproduce itself, and, with others of its kind, build up a living fabric. Di'a phragm (d[=i]'[.a] fr[)a]m). The muscular membrane that separates the thorax from the abdomen. Duct. A tube through which fluid from a gland is conveyed. Fa tigue' (f[.a] t[=e]g'). A condition in which the body cells are worn out faster than they are built up, so that waste matter accumulates in the body and poisons it. Germ. The simplest form of life, from which a living organism develops.