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PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 

 OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Vol. I. 



New York, May, 1894. 



No. 4. 



HINTS ON THE IMHEDIATE flANAGEriENT OF SUDDEN ILLNESS OR INJURY 



A LECTURE TO PHARMACISTS. 



By JAMES K. CROOK, A. M., M. D., 



Lecturer on Clinical Medicine at the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital. 

 Fellow ot the New York Academ}' of Medicine, etc. 



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The question of what to do for a sick 

 or injured person in an emergency is one 

 which appeals with peculiar force to the 

 members of the pharmaceutical profes- 

 sion. When an individual falls in a fit 

 •or a faint on the street, is injured in an 

 accident, or bitten by a rabid animal, 

 one of the first thoughts of the bystander 

 is to remove him to the nearest drug 

 store. The pharmacy thus acts as a 

 kind of reception hospital, and the phar- 

 macist is for the time in medical charge 

 of the case. It is during the few min- 

 utes you are awaiting the arrival of a 

 physician or an ambulance that j'ou will 

 frequently have the opportunity to do a 

 noble work — perhaps to save life. In 

 minor cases you may be able to render 

 all the assistance which the occasion re- 

 quires. I have been invited to discuss 

 with you some of the numerous medical 



and surgical exigencies which are liable 

 to confront you in every-day life, but I 

 find it impossible to consider all the sub- 

 jects allotted to me in the brief scope of 

 one lecture Some of these, indeed, are 

 well omitted from such a talk to phar- 

 macists. In the management of cases of 

 poisoning, for example, I have no doubt 

 that your training has been as thorough 

 as that to be obtained in any medical 

 college. Again, you will not often be called 

 upon to render aid in cases of drown- 

 ing, apparent or real, nor does the time 

 admit of anything like an intelligent dis- 

 cussion of splints and bandages. Our 

 remarks this evening are therefore in- 

 tended to apply only to the conditions 

 which you are liable to meet with while 

 following your vocations as pharma- 

 cists. 



L,et us first consider the subiect of un- 

 consciousness or inse7isibili{y , in whiph con- 



* Delivered at the New York College of Pharmacy, .\pril ii, 1894, under the auspices of the Society of First 

 Aid to the Injured. 



