Show First Aid Fallacies How some traditional first aid lid remedies may do great reat harm to victims of accidents is explained in a recent Red Cross publication A few examples may be mentioned Rolling a person apparently drowned over a barrel only forces water out of the stomach where wh re it does no harm But ut laying the patient face down and alternately I applying and releasing pressure at atthe atthe the small of the back often induces cs respiration and recovery Rubbing frost-bitten frost parts with snow is ie also a n b bad d practice Let Ithe et the frozen tissues thaw out grad grad- gradually in a temperature a lit little above the freezing point Some persons put spider webs cuds of or tobacco soot Boot salt pork and the like on cuts or infected founds to draw the poison ou out These jc in-jc substances omy increase increase the dnn clangor r infection Whisky ammonia of potash or the application o of f a freshly killed chicken to a wound caused by snake bite are arc all aU old old- ld time remedies of or no value The modern modem course is ia to tie a bandage bandi between the wound and the heart hei cut a gash across the fan fang marks and suck out the blood and poi poison as quickly as possible The venom of a rattlesnake taken takei- into the mouth is harmless even if it is swallowed Many other fallacies arc are enumerated enumerated cm crated and warned against in pub pub- publications of the Red fled Cross i and medical societies Every person per should have somo some knowledge of what to do and what not to do in inemer emer emergencies A more widespread ead diffusion of such knowledge would wo no doubt be tho the means of SAving sav many nany lives through giving givin proper first fust aid until a physician co cc be call a d |