First Aid to the Injured. Handbook prepared at the request of The Society for Instruction in First Aid to the Injured. Revised under the authority of the society.

MORTON, Bowditch (1857-1909); DEMING, William Champion (1862-1954); Louis Faugeres BISHOP, Sr. (1864-1941).

Published by Society, 1912., New York:, 1912

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Small 8vo. viii, 148, [4] pp. 22 figs., index, ads.; fig. 21 is corrected by the printer with a slip mounted over the original printed error (p.82). Original full dark green cloth with red stamping on upper cover; rubbed, spine call no. neatly over-painted. Ex-library bookplate of the Mount Sinai Hospital of New York; from the library of Dr. John H. Garlock (gift to Mount Sinai), his rubber-stamp on pastedowns, rubber-stamps on endleaves and all three edges of Mount Sinai. Good+. Second edition. For the aid of persons who are injured and offering practical solutions for saving a life. Shown are how to make a splint, bandaging, artificial respiration, stop bleeding, hernia, poisons, burns, frost bites, accidents from electricity, foreign bodies, transportation of the injured, nursing, etc. / Side note: Bishop's son, "Louis Faugeres Bishop [Jr.] of New York City was the first American physician to limit his practice to cardiovascular disease and to proclaim himself a "cardiologist." He transformed himself from an internist into a cardiologist at a time when heart disease was not viewed as a distinct specialty in the United States." â " W. Bruce Fye, Louis Faugeres Bishop. Profiles in Cardiology, Clin. Cardiol. 18, 541-542 (1995). NOTE: Louis Faugeres Bishop Sr. (1864-1941); Louis Faugeres Bishop Jr.'s dates: (1901-1986), was a noted cardiologist.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Aid to the Injured. Handbook prepared at the request of The Society for Instruction in First Aid to the Injured. Revised under the authority of the society.
• Publisher: Society, 1912., New York:
• Publication Date: 1912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition