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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...

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 ...

First Aid and Transportation in Combat Pre-Hospital Care: Concept Analysis with Walker and Avant Approach

Background and Aim: Pre-hospital care is a multidimensional concept with multiple definitions, but the first aid and transportation concept remains unclear. The aim of this study was to clarify the first aid and transportation concept in pre-hospital combat medical care. Methods: The Walker-Avant approach was used for the analysis of the concept of first aid and transportation. This approach is...