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Pig Te an NEPA ae eaaT ve eae AEE roy ee ED will freeamana zreat deal from pain by keep- ing the parts at rest.: Many. lacerations which you meet sometimes are minor: ?> and 4 bad thing to do is: (to take <a piece of adhe- sive plaster and seal it up. Pos- sibly the wound has been infect- sd, that it cone tains. the ele- ments. of blood poison; so leave the interval be- tween the strips of adhesive plaster © where the serum~ or discharge of the wound may Ret -OULS Over this' apply sauze and bandage. "Now, in re- gard to = the various medi- which [ selected here, they con- sist of simply those useful things that you use about your household, and with whtrceh Most: of | yOu ate familiar. The compound cathartic pill is used the world over as a laxative. Many times you meet a case wherein a person is con- stipated, give them one as laxative and three as a purgative. Now, you. don't need a wide array of medicine, because the more you get the more complicated your case becomes, the same way with the migraine tablets; this is composed of camphor, acetanilid and quinine, and is used by the profession at large for head- ache. Use them according to directions. "Then comes your quinine pills-- everybody knows what quinine is good for. It is an anti-malarium, reduces chills and fever and it can be used as a tonic. One of the most important cases of sickness which you must contend with on your ships, among sailors, is what we call sailor's colic, cramps. This condi- tion is brought about by a man going ashore and filling up. pretty well with cines have "TAE MaRINE REVIEW DR. HAROLD WILSON. liquor; he does not eat anything; until he gets on to a ship, which goes out in the lake and possibly in a uay and possi- bly not until three days he has the cramps. There is nothing that will aid this man outside of morphine. There- fore, I have prescribed a solution here that is recommended and is known as chloranodyne. (Specific directions will be found on every bottle in your medi- cine chest.) Now this chloranodyne preparation carries with it one-eighth grain of morphine to the dram or tea- spoonful. You can give a patient one- eighth of a grain of morphine, or tea- spoonful of it, taken about every hour for three hours, and then stop. After that, give him a teaspoonful every three hours if he does not improve; and as I have said before specific directions will be put on these bottles so you will be able to see at a glance just what to do. Now, _ besides this, i propose tO... pul On te the inside of the lid of this case full direc- tions so you may have at hand for refer- ence when nec- essary a little outline of what to... do: in an emergency. If you have hem- Oorthage, in- structions will be: fhere> it you have a4 scald or burn, it. will tell you what to do. "ON OAV OF course, gentle- men, I can't go along and de- scribe what to do in all emer- gencies as they are so varied it is impossible, but F will do what I can to enable you to give such tem- porary aid as you can until the case can be gotten to medi- cal attention. Of course, you are close to the various harbors where you can go and secure aid and the most cases you will have to contend with are simply those of an.accidental mature, -- : ; "Now if there is anything, gentle- men, you would like to ask about I will be glad to discuss it." DISCUSSION ON DR. WILSON'S SPEECH. Capt. Hunt--Doctor, how do you get the clothes off the fellow in the bath tub? Dr. Wilson--That is'a good thing and I will answer it. You take these serious burns where you must im- merse a man under water to relieve him, you can keep him there 24. hours if you keep his head above water, and after he finds out how good it feels, he will beg you to leave him. in, and you can soon get him into some harbor. Keep the water tepid. If you desire to remove clothing under water