Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
Emergency Glasses.

The object of the Emergency or Am.
bulance class is to tell the people what
to do in cases OF accident or sudden ill.
ness till the doctor can be fetched. Ger.
tain accidents require immediate treat
ment. Ii violent bleeding is not quickly
checked. the patient sinks below the
possibility of recovery. If fish.bone
sticks in child's throat and no one
present has the skill to remove it, the
child is choked before the messenger
reaches the doctors door. A season
never passes at one of our popular wa.
tering places without some such mishap
as the following: A lad who cannot
swim goes beyond his depth, struggles
and cries for help, and after more or less
delay is brought in unconscious. If he
has been long time in the water he
presents what is known in medical
phraseology as a case of suspended ami.
nation. The face is colorless, the heart
has apparently ceased to beat. There
is no physician at hand, the people
present do not know how to act, and the
boy, who now only appears to be dead,
will be in very truth LAS dead as a door
nail' before skilled aid is procured.
The instances just cited show that to
do nothing is oftentimes fatal. We
have next to prove that to do the wrong
l., loola -, I;,tI
able. A man falls from a scaffolding
and gets some bones broken. The by.
ISLANDERS, kind but ignorant, lift him up
as best they can and take him to the
nearest chemists. Their unscienti6c
handling will very likely have aggra.
waited his injuries to the extent of rend-
eriDg them almost incurable. Again,
untaught people sometimes mistake a
dislocation for a sprain and treat it ac-
cordingly, rendering what ought to be
one of the simplest surgical acts man
ter of difficulty to the doctor, and of
suffering to the patient; and what can
administration of stimulants in cases Of
sudden seizure?
To do nothing for the sufferer is, in
certain cases, positive homicide-an un.
intentional murder. In general way it
is true beyond question that the only
reason why the people around fail to do
the right thing is because they have
had no teaching in emergency work.
To meet this crying popular
need organizations have been formed in
the East and in Great Britain to put
practical instruction in first aid to the
injured within the reach of all classes of
the community. Any ambulance pupil
would know how TO apply clyptics or
congresses when hemorrhage set in, or
to produce artificial respiration in cases
of drowning. He or she could have
told how the man whose bones had been
fractured had best be moved. If the
mother had been to the ambulance lee.
lures the fish bone that caused the
child's death would have been
dextrously pulled up or pushed down
before the little one was black in the
face.
Our readers who have followed us
thus far will learn with pleasure that the
Los Angeles Woman's Club is about to
organize series of emergency lectures
for ladies to be delivered by Doctor Ar.
thur E. Gresham, of st. Bartholomew
College, London, England. 1t is hoped
that when once this excellent work is
set on foot it will spread in our city as
it has in other large centers. The gen.
tlemen are never slow to follow the lead
of the ladies in philanthropic effort. In
the old country the emergency courses
have been taken up with special enthu-
siasm by the police forces and the fire
brigades.
One word of explanation to guard
against Misunderstanding. The instruc-
tion given at the lectures is not intended
iuany sense TO render the doctors SER
vices unnecessary. The first rule given
to pupils is to send at once for The physi-
clan in all cases of illness or injury. The
lecture aims only at giving few plain
rules and principles to enable any intel
ligent person to act efficiently until
regular medical assistance can be pro-
cured.
A formal announcement of the forma-
ton of classes will be made in due
course. l.. +.
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