First Aid to the Injured and Management of the Sick: An Ambulance Handbook and Elementary Manual of Nursing for Volunteer Bearers and Others

Edmond James Lawless

Jan 1894 · B. Lippincott Company

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First Edinburgh edition (published in Philadelphia in the same year) of an illustrated guide to first aid, written by Surgeon-Captain E.J. Lawless M.D., of the East Surrey Regiment, and designed to 'suit the requirements of those attending regimental classes', as well as to members of volunteer and civil ambulance classes. 'Recent circular orders upon the formation of Brigade Bearer Companies in the Volunteer Service, render it advisable that the course for the ambulance proficiency certificate should be supplemented by a second and more extended instruction in subjects such as Sick Nursing - Field Hospital Organization - the elementary principles of Health and of Sick Diet, &c. Part II has been written with this end in view' (preface). The Volunteer Infantry Brigade Bearer plan to create dedicated companies appears to have been begun not long after the formation in 1877 of the Ambulance Association of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. As Lawless makes clear in his preface, the scheme seems never to have really taken off nation-wide, and he appeals to the executive Committee of the St. John Ambulance Association, that some of their newly certified and qualified able-bodied young men could be encouraged to swell the ranks of the County Bearer and Regimental Companies.