The Ship's Medicine Chest and First Aid at Sea (Miscellaneous Publication, No. 9)

xi, 498 pp. Color and black-and-white photographs, diagrams in text. CONTENTS: Foreword; Preface; Introductory Note for the 1955 Revision; Historical Introduction; The Human Body--Its Structure and Function; Hygiene, Sanitation, and Preventative Medicine; The Sickbay and Medicine Chest; General Nursing Care; First Aid and the Emergency Treatment of Injuries; The Classification and Treatment of Diseases; Medical Advice by Radio; Birth and Death at Sea; Appendix: Regulations Governing Medical Relief of Merchant Seamen and Others - Excerpts from Regulations Governing Foreign Quarantine - List of U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals and Other Medical Relief Stations - Special Safeguards for Harrison Law Narcotic Drugs - Salt-Water Soap - Weights, Measures, and Approximate Equivalents; Glossary; Index.