On 7 December 1988, a severe earthquake hit in Armenia, a former republic of the Soviet Union (USSR); on 11 September 2001, a manmade attack of similar impact hit New York City. These events share similar implications for the role of the uninjured survivor. With basic training, the uninjured survivors could save lives without tools or resuscitation equipment. This article makes the case for tea...

?A meeting of the Bristol Division of the British Medical Association was held at the Physics Department, Royal Fort, University of Bristol, on Thursday, 12th June, with Dr. J. A. Nixon, Chairman of the Division, presiding. A symposium on " Experiences of First Aid in Air Raids " was held. In opening the meeting the Chairman said it was hoped to get together a body of experience which might be ...

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...