a
bandage. As soon as the toe is really inflamed the case becomes
surgical, and as such demands the care of a surgeon when one can be
obtained.

=FAINTING.=

_First Aid Rule 1.--Remove impediments to respiration. Remove collar,
loosen all waist bands and cords, unhook corset or cut the laces at
person's back._

_Rule 2.--Assist heart and brain with blood pressure. Put cushion
under buttocks, wind skirt close about legs, and raise feet in air.
Wait ten seconds._

_Rule 3.--Aid respiration. Put mild smelling salts under nose. Spatter
cold water in face._

=SUFFOCATION FROM GAS IN WELLS, CISTERNS, OR MINES, OR FROM
ILLUMINATING GAS.=

_First Aid Rule 1.--Remove quickly into pure air._

_Rule 2.--Resuscitate as if drowned. Open his mouth, grasp his tongue,
pull it forward and keep it there. Let another assistant grasp the
arms just below the elbows, and draw them steadily upward by the sides
of the patient's head to the ground, the hands nearly meeting, which
enlarges the capacity of the chest and induces inspiration. (See pp.
30 and 31.) While this is being done, let a third assistant take
position astride the patient's hips with his elbows resting on his own
knees, his hands extended ready for action. Next, let the assistant
standing at the head turn down the patient's arms to the sides of his
body, the assistant holding the tongue, changing hands if necessary to
let the arms pass._

_Just before the patient's hands reach the ground, the man astride the
body will grasp the body with his hands, the ball of the thumb resting
on either side of the pit of the stomach, the fingers falling into
the grooves between the short ribs. Now, using his knees as a pivot,
he will, at the moment the patient's hands touch the ground, throw
(not too suddenly) his whole weight forward on his hands, and at the
same time squeeze the waist between them, as if he wished to force
something in the chest upward out of the mouth; he will deepen the
pressure while he slowly counts one, two, three, four (about five
seconds), then suddenly lets go with a final push, which will send him
back to his first position. This completes expiration. A child or a
delicate person must be more gently handled._

_At the instant of letting go, the man at the head of the patient will
again draw the arms steadily upward, to the sides of the patient's
head, as before (the assistant holding the tongue again, changing
hands if necessary to let the arms p