The world celebrates the First Aid day on every second Saturday of September. It is celebrated to bring awareness among the people about the importance of first aid. Let’s quickly peep into the world of First Aid.
A conversation between the company’s founder Robert Wood and a railway surgeon during a train journey led to the creation of the first ‘First Aid Kits’. In 1901, they made the First Aid Manuals, packaged with the kits. Identify the company.
First aid, or emergency first aid, is the care that is given to an injured or sick person prior to treatment by medically trained personnel. The most common term referred to in first aid is ABC (and sometimes D). ABC & D stands for what?
Reginald Harrison (1837–1908), a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Dominique Jean Larrey, a French surgeon were all great proponents of this. In 1866, Harrison even used his horse for this. What did they innovate?
This word has a late 17th century French origin meaning ‘Coat of mail’, influenced by ‘tourner’ or ‘to turn’. In the Ancient times, the soldiers carried this device. During the wars of Alexander and the Romans, they were used to stanch the bleeding of wounded soldiers. Identify.
The Reverend John Flynn had a vision of providing a “Mantle of Safety”. He began work in 1912, when only two doctors served an area of some 3,00,000 square kilometers in Western Australia. Despite the odds, he carved a great service for the humanity. What did he do?
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