ip, and then
allowing the free end to fall slack, turn down as in Fig. II, p. 132.

The T-bandage is used to bandage the crotch between the thighs, or
around the forehead and over the top of the skull. (See Fig. IV, p.
134.) In the former case, the ends 1-1 are put about the body as a
belt, and the end 2 is brought from behind, in the narrow part of the
back, down forward between the thighs, over the crotch, and up to the
belt in the lower part of the belly. The figure-of-eight bandage is
used on various parts, and is illustrated in the bandage called spica
of the groin, Fig. IV, p. 132. Beginning with a few circular turns
about the body in the direction of 1, the bandage is brought down in
front of the body and groin, as in 2, and then about the back of the
thigh up around the front of the thigh, as in 3, across the back and
once around the body and down again as in 2. Other bandages
appropriate to various parts of the body are also illustrated that by
their help the proper method of their application may be understood.
See pages 132, 134, 136, 137. The triangular bandage (see p. 88) made
from a large handkerchief or piece of muslin a yard square, cut or
folded diagonally from corner to corner, will be found invaluable in
emergency cases. It is easily and quickly adjusted to almost any part
of the body, and may be used for dressing wounds, or as a bandage for
fractures, etc.

[Illustration: PLATE III.

Fig. I.

Fig. II.

BANDAGES FOR EXTREMITIES (AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK).

Fig. I shows a spiral reversed bandage of arm and hand, requiring
roller 2-1/2 inches wide and 7 yards long; Fig. II shows a spiral
reversed bandage of leg and foot, requiring roller 2-1/2 inches wide
and 14 yards long.]

[Illustration: PLATE IV.

Fig. I.

Fig. II.

Fig. III.

Fig. IV.

BANDAGES FOR HEAD AND HAND.

(AMERICAN TEXT-BOOK.)

Fig. I shows a gauntlet bandage; Fig. II, a circular bandage for the
jaw; Fig. III, a circular bandage for the head; Fig. IV, a
figure-of-eight bandage for both eyes.]

CHAPTER VI

=Ordinary Poisons=

_Unknown Poisons--Antidotes for Poisoning by Acids and Alkalies--The
Stomach Pump--Emetics--Symptoms and Treatment of Metal Poisoning--
Narcotics._

_First Aid Rule 1.--Send at once for physician._

_Rule 2.--Empty stomach with emetic._

_Rule 3.--Give antidote._

In most cases of poisoning emetics and purgatives do the most good.

=UNKNOWN POISONS.=--Act at once before making inqu