AMBULANCE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 14

AMBULANCE

"BIG SMOKE."

Here is a bit out of "Gilcraft's Talks on Ambulance Work": "The extent of a Scout 's training should be: (1) How to deal with common aud minor accidents of everyday life; (2) How to deal with those anjuries where delay in treatment involves further danger or pain to the suiferer. Anything beyond these is outside the scopo of tlie Scout training. Within these lnnits the training skpuld be very praclical, and should not have as ats goai simply the passing of the secoad or first class or Auiuulance Badges, but the turning out of a scout "who -can really be of use when accidents occur. "The huinan body is a machine, a very efiicient machine too — so one may compare it with another machine — the motor-cycle — and note the points of similarity and dift'erence. The motorcycle has a frame to support all the other parts and to give rigidity. The body has its counterpart in the skeleton, a number. of bones (the exact number is of no lmportance) joined togqther, and on these the other parts are built. Had we no bones we should fiop on the floor liko a mass of jelly. "There is, diagrammatically, just a few. lines such as (A) The spine or backbone. (B) The skull. (C) The shoulders and arms. (D) The hip bones and legs. (E) The ribs. "The engine of a cycle makes the machine- move, and the muscles of the body act in. the same way. The. muscles are the fleshy part— the beef .which you see in the butcher 's shop — and they are fixed to the bones." There is no space for more, so I will carry on another time.