. Surgery, its principles and practice . rst-aid dressings are very important for emer-gency use, should a relief station crew fail for any reason to visit the divi-sion suffering injury, and where, as in modern battleships, the injuredare often isolated and dependent upon their own or a shipmates abilityto relieve. Every man is to be provided with an individual packet to beattached to his person at some uniform place, and, in addition, canvas 1034 NAVAL SURGERY. bags containing an abundant supply of these packets, particularly forshell-wounds/* are hung on a stanchion or bulkhead behind each
. Surgery, its principles and practice . rst-aid dressings are very important for emer-gency use, should a relief station crew fail for any reason to visit the divi-sion suffering injury, and where, as in modern battleships, the injuredare often isolated and dependent upon their own or a shipmates abilityto relieve. Every man is to be provided with an individual packet to beattached to his person at some uniform place, and, in addition, canvas 1034 NAVAL SURGERY. bags containing an abundant supply of these packets, particularly forshell-wounds/* are hung on a stanchion or bulkhead behind each exposedgun and in the casemates. The turret will be equipped amply with first-aid provisions and the turret crew will attend to their own wounded, layingthem aside where they will not hamper the operation of the big may .be possible for members of the surgeons division to reach this partof the ship and succor the wounded during action; but against the factthat such visits might prove impracticable, the turret crews must be given. Fig. 512.—The Upper Portion of the Illustration Shows the Shell-wound Dressing Be-ing Applied, also Same Completed. The Lower Portion of the Illustration Showsthe Contents of a First-aid Package. special training in first-aid methods. Indeed, the practical and carefuleducation of the whole body of officers and enlisted men is essential tofuture progress in the treatment of wounds.^^^ Clothing.—In entering upon an engagement, time permitting, thewhole ships company, particularly, those above the water-line and inexposed parts of the ship, should bathe and shift into clean underwearand overgarments (as few as needed), with a view to minimizing thechance of that serious infection which has in the past been a prominent ORGANIZATION AND PREPARATION FOR BATTLE, 1035 characteristic of all shell-wounds, owing largely to the sweat of uncleanskin and to soiled clothing which is carried to greater or less depth in thewound by the injuring missile. Thi
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