CIVIL "FIRST AID": LIGHT, WARMTH, AND WATER.

First Aid

due to a nearby vacuum cleaner or a passing tramear. You will find that these devices will not help you when you are confronted with disease far from the resources of a modern hospital. The only thing that matters is whether or not you have taken heed to the lesson first taught in the Eastern Mediterranean over two thousand years ago, repeated again by the old Cromwellian captain-"the trooper t...

Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict

An increasing amount of development aid is targeted to areas affected by civil conflict; some of it in the hope that aid will reduce conflict by weakening popular support for insurgent movements. But if insurgents know that development projects will weaken their position, they have an incentive to derail them, which may exacerbate conflict. To formalize this intuition, we develop a theoretical ...

Chromosome first aid.

Most people take the stability of chromosomes for granted. Some may imagine metaphase chromosomes lined up like a butterfly collection on a page, reassuringly in order and unchanging. However, evidence that has been accumulating for over half a century indicates that genome stability is a dynamic, not a static, process. In the 1940s natural chromosomes ends, or telomeres, were shown to be speci...

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Handbook of First Aid

HANDBOOK OF FIRST AID. By Arthur D. Belilios, M.B., B.S., Desmond K. Mulvany, M.S., F.R.CS., Katherine F. Armstrong, S.R.N., S.C.M. (Pp. 482; figs. 195. 12s. 6d.) London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1962. THE last edition of this book was in 1955. The chapter on Shock and Resuscitation has been rewritten, and a new chapter on First Aid and Nuclear Warfare added. Other items have been revised and ...