Jonas Parker
10-24-2007, 03:16 PM
Here's a free library of downloadable medical reference books. Remember thought, they're not worth diddly if you don't read them.
http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php
The Following Titles are available for Free Download:
Where There Is No Doctor
Where There Is No Dentist
A Book for Midwives
Where Women Have No Doctor
A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities
You should definitely have the first four. There are others as well if you so choose.
A member of your family has a bad laceration, and you don't know how to suture. Well, learn before it happens! Here's the link to the PDF file of the Wound Closure Manual that helped to teach me back in the mid 60s:
http://www.ucsf.edu/sig/Ethicon_Wound_Closure.pdf
So now you've downloaded the book and want to practice... and no, I'm not volunteering... but I'll tell you how I learned. Buy a fresh (not smoked) ham. Take the ham home, get out your needle holder, surgical scissors, a needle, and a package of suture material Make a deep cut through the skin of the ham, about 3" long, then suture up the cut... cut in another place and do it again. When you're confident that you can close a cut on the ham with a nice neat row of well-tied stitches, then remove all of the stitches in the ham and bake. Serve with sweet potatoes and red cabbage.
For those with the knowledge, experience, and instruments, here's a free download of Emergency War Surgery, THIRD UNITED STATES REVISION 2004
http://www.brooksidepress.org/Products/ ... trance.htm (http://www.brooksidepress.org/Products/emergency_war_surgery_entrance.htm)
http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php
The Following Titles are available for Free Download:
Where There Is No Doctor
Where There Is No Dentist
A Book for Midwives
Where Women Have No Doctor
A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities
You should definitely have the first four. There are others as well if you so choose.
A member of your family has a bad laceration, and you don't know how to suture. Well, learn before it happens! Here's the link to the PDF file of the Wound Closure Manual that helped to teach me back in the mid 60s:
http://www.ucsf.edu/sig/Ethicon_Wound_Closure.pdf
So now you've downloaded the book and want to practice... and no, I'm not volunteering... but I'll tell you how I learned. Buy a fresh (not smoked) ham. Take the ham home, get out your needle holder, surgical scissors, a needle, and a package of suture material Make a deep cut through the skin of the ham, about 3" long, then suture up the cut... cut in another place and do it again. When you're confident that you can close a cut on the ham with a nice neat row of well-tied stitches, then remove all of the stitches in the ham and bake. Serve with sweet potatoes and red cabbage.
For those with the knowledge, experience, and instruments, here's a free download of Emergency War Surgery, THIRD UNITED STATES REVISION 2004
http://www.brooksidepress.org/Products/ ... trance.htm (http://www.brooksidepress.org/Products/emergency_war_surgery_entrance.htm)