erent
countries, including the rattlesnake, cobra, python, etc.

It is prepared in the dry form so that it can be carried easily, and
will keep almost indefinitely. The proper course to be followed by
persons going into countries infested by venomous snakes is always to
have on hand a few doses of it. Its value has been positively
demonstrated within the last few years in India, where it is used in
the British Army, as well as in other countries.

In the fluid form it should be used hypodermically, a dose of ten
cubic centimeters being injected within eighty or ninety minutes of
the reception of the poison.

=DOG BITE OR CAT BITE.= (See Hydrophobia, Vol. V, p. 264.)

_First Aid Rule 1.--Make sure animal is mad. Send patient to Pasteur
institute if one is within reach._

_Rule 2.--Remove poison from wound. Encourage bleeding by squeezing
tissue about wound. Suck wound, if you have no cracks in lips, and
spit out fluid. Pour hot carbolic solution into wound (a third of a
teaspoonful of carbolic acid to a pint of hot water)._

_Rule 3.--Cauterize. Dip wooden meat skewer, or lead pencil, into pure
nitric acid, and rub into wound. Or, use red-hot poker, or red-hot
nail grasped by tongs or pincers, or red coal from fire._

_Rule 4.--Do not kill the animal. If he is alive and well at the end
of a week, he was not mad._

CHAPTER IX

=Burns, Scalds, Frostbites, Etc.=

_Classes of Burns--Treatment--Burns Caused by Acids and
Alkalies--First Aid Rules for Frostbites--Real Freezing--Ingrowing Toe
Nail--Fainting--Suffocation--Fits._

=BURNS AND SCALDS.=--If slight, skin very red, unbroken.

_First Aid Rule.--Cover with cloths wet in strong solution of baking
soda in cold water. Dry gently, and spread with white of egg, thick._

If deeper, blisters, skin broken, thick swelling; there may be some
bleeding.

_First Aid Rule 1.--Stop pain quickly. Cut away clothing very gently.
Break no blisters. Cover with Carron oil (equal parts of limewater and
linseed or olive oil) and light bandage. Give fifteen drops of
laudanum[9] every half hour in tablespoonful of water, till relieved
in part or three doses are taken._

_Rule 2.--Combat shock. If patient is cold, pulse weak, head confused,
give tablespoonful of whisky in a quarter of a glass of hot water. Put
hot-water bottles at feet._

_Rule 3.--Quench thirst with pieces of ice held in mouth or a swallow
of cold milk._

See page 174 for subsequent treatment.