CHAPTER PAGE I. RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED 27 Reviving the Patient--How to Expel Water from the Stomach and Chest--Instructions for Producing Respiration--When Several Workers are at Hand--When One must Work Alone--How to Save a Drowning Person. II. HEAT STROKE AND ELECTRIC SHOCK 39 First-aid Rules--Symptoms of Heat Exhaustion--Treatment of Heat Prostration--What to Do in Case of Electric Shock--Symptoms--Artificial Respiration--Mortality in Lightning Strokes. III. WOUNDS, SPRAINS, AND BRUISES 50 Treatment of Wounds--Bleeding from Arteries and Veins--Punctured Wounds--Oozing--Lockjaw--Bruises-- Abrasions--Sprains and Their Treatment--Synovitis-- Bunions and Felons--Weeping Sinew--Foreign Bodies in Eye, Ear, and Nose. IV. FRACTURES 80 How to Detect Broken Bones--Fracture of Rib and Collar Bone--Instructions for Applying Dressings--Bandage for Broken Jaw--Fracture of Shoulder-blade, Arm, Hip, Leg, and Other Bones--Compound Fractures. V. DISLOCATIONS 118 Varieties of Dislocations--Method of Reducing a Dislocated Jaw--A Dislocated Shoulder--Indications when Elbow is Out of Joint--Dislocation of Hip, etc.--Forms of Bandages. VI. ORDINARY POISONS 139 Unknown Poisons--Symptoms and Antidotes--Poisoning by Carbolic and Other Acids--Alkalies--Metal Poisoning--Aconite, Belladonna, and Other Narcotics--Chloral--Opium, Morphine, Laudanum, Paregoric, and Soothing Sirups--Tobacco, Strychnine, etc. VII. FOOD POISONS 147 Poisons in Shellfish and Other Food--Symptoms and Remedies--How Bacteria are Nourished--Infected Meat and Milk--Treatment of Tapeworm--Trichiniasis--Potato Poisoning. VIII. BITES AND STINGS 155 Country and City Mosquitoes--How Yellow Fever is Communicated--Treatment of Mosquito Bites--Bee, Wasp, and Hornet Stings--Lice--Fleas and Flies--Centipedes and Scorpions--Spiders--Poisonous Snakes--Cat and Dog Bites. IX. BURNS, SCALDS, FROSTBITES, ETC. 171