The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-05-18
TEAUHiNu NEW YORK PULIUE.
Surgeons Telling Them How to Rande,
Prompt Aid to Injured Persons.

All towns and cities mi~ht well take
example from u series Br live First Aid
10 the Injured" lectures, the first of
which was delivered To two squads of
New York policemen, Thursday even
| ing. When the course of lectures is com
pleied, it will bc repeated To the police
men of other precincts, 81 that in the
course of time every policeman in the
city will have heard il. when po-
liceman has attended all the lectures he
will b. examined by DIR. Morton, the
chief physician of the First Aid to the
Injured Society. and If he passes Il sat
isfactOry examination on what he has
heard, he will get II certificate setting
forth that he is competent To act in the
| eases of emergency which isN the OBJ
lect of the society To provide against.
The lectures are given 80 The potre ut
the expense of the society. AttcnNtlhcc
upon them is compulsory.
In beginning his lecture. DIR. Nichols
said that the man who stopped m ar
terry from bleeding saved life Us posi-
lively rs il he rescued 4 person from
drowning or from a fiery death. Fiji
teen minutes nearly always elapsed, he
continued, before an ambulance arrived
to convey the victim of an accident to
the hospital, and il was this fifteen
minutes which should he filled by po-
liceman. 1t is his duty to apply the
first aid To the injured; the doctor will
apply the second. Scores of persons
die every year who cOukl be saved were
they properly cared f,r in the interval
II ~ q e
the surgeon. DIR. Nichols told his
hearers that they must above all things
be cool in the emergencies under con-
sidcration. An excited man does harm.
while the cool man does the right thing
at the right time. The lecturer then
displayed the chart of skeleton, and
proceeded to impart sufficient knowl-
edge OF anatomy to enable his listeners
to know how To stop q hemOrrhage.
Two policemen barred their arms, and
each of the Others in tslrn pressed on
the artery ut the inside of the upper
part of the arm. in order To be able
when necessary TO stop bleeding from q
wound in the hand or forearm. The
lecturer told the policemen to frequent
ly feel each his own pulse SO as 20 get
acquainted with the feeling, i'm order
that he might know where IN artery
was even il the How u blood was feeble.
He then told them bow to stop bleed
ing of the arm nc1S, the shoulder by
pressing u key in tile hollow space in
the shoulder behind the collar bone,
and how, in ease of II cut Oh the leg, to
rest the leg OH II chair so that the pres
sure of its own weight on the large rear
artery would stop the blood from ilow-
ing. He cautioned them not to permit
u man who had lost much blood TO
make the least motion, rs motion called
for an increased action of the heart
The speaker also told1low to distin-
gnish by the color and flow between AZ
terial and venolls blood.
In conclusion, the lecturer warned the
policemen that he would question them
on the next lecture on what h. had talk
oh about, and would expect them 10
designate the modes of stopping hemor-
rhage by pressing the arteries in differ
emf parts of the body