. The Alumni journal. College of Pharmacy of the City of New York; Pharmacology. IfBn^i. 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. ^leyitlevien : The question of what to do for a sick or injured person in an emergency is one which appeals with peculiar for
. The Alumni journal. College of Pharmacy of the City of New York; Pharmacology. IfBn^i. 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. ^leyitlevien : 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
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