https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/f1b34574-b7f8-43ee-a90b-5c62bae2b0e2 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com “Essentials of First Aid” was one of a series of films produced by The March of Time for The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. The film demonstrates first aid basics. The title "The Bluejacket’s Manual" takes its name from a standard issue handbook for Navy personnel, first issued in 1902. The film opens with a wide shot of a battleship. Shots of life aboard the ship, in the sleeping quarters. Various scenes from sick bay – an officer’s foot is being bandaged, an arm is being bandaged, surgery being performed. Transport 1:02. Shots of an infirmary. Overhead view of a surgery. A sailor puts on a life jacket. Men wearing life jackets working on the side of the ship, attached to safety lines. A man uses a chipping hammer and injures his eyes. A doctor performs an eye exam. A taut line breaks. 2:15 Men working in the engine room. One of them faints from heat exhaustion and the other carries him away. Medical officers grab a stretcher and the man is carried to it. Closeup of a compartment with salt tablets, which a soldier takes before entering the engine room. 3:13 Officers put cotton in their ears and raise cannons. The cannons fire. Officers take cover, lying flat and face down, arms beneath their chest. A bomb explodes and an officer falls. 4:22 A diagram of different methods of carrying wounded officers. Officers demonstrate moving an injured man on a wire stretcher. Officers transfer a man from a small boat to a larger vessel in a stretcher. 5:28 Demonstration of a collar drag. 6:05 Demonstration of a blanket drag. 6:52 Demonstration of a one man lift and carry. 7:22 A brochure reads “Artificial Respiration – Gas Asphyxiation, Electric Shock, Drowning.” 7:27 A man crawls along a smoke-filled deck, head down, with a wet handkerchief against his nose and mouth. Rescue detail puts on an oxygen-breathing apparatus then enters the smoke-filled compartment attached to a safety line. 8:45 Officers perform artificial respiration. Officer demonstrates the prone pressure method. 10:20 Closeup of a first aid box and an officer displays its contents – gauze bandages, adhesive tape, sling, scissors, battle dressing. The officer demonstrates using the battle dressings, then continues displaying the first aid materials – wound powder (sulfanilamide) and sulfanilamide tablets, tannic acid burn jelly, roll of wire, wooden splints, rubber tourniquet, paper tags and pencil, iodine, and a morphine syrette. 13:33 An injured man lies on deck and an officer examines him. 15:04 Closeup of morphine syrette. The officer injects morphine into his arm, then marks his forehead with the letter “M” along with a tag with the time it was administered. 15:53 Diagram of arm bones. Demonstration of making splints and bandaging broken arms. 17:43 Splinted arm is placed in a sling. 17:51 Diagram of leg bones. Demonstration of making splints and bandaging broken legs. A Thomas ring splint is administered. Officers make improvised splints with rifle and bayonet and scabbard. 19:33 Diagram of skull and spine. Officers place wounded man in stretcher, keeping his body straight. 20:07 Demonstration of treating a burn victim. Officer administers morphine. Closeup of morphine tag. 20:41 Officer cuts clothes away from the burn and applies burn jelly and a dressing. 21:32 Closeup of arm wound. Officer applies battle dressing. Officer puts sulfur wound powder on leg wound and dresses it. Officer applies second dressing over the first. 23:35 Officer gives the wounded man sulfur tablets. 23:56 Diagram of a chest wound. Officer applies dressing to chest wound. 24:44 Diagram of arteries and veins. Officer draws pattern of arteries on another officer. He demonstrates compressing the artery against the bone on various pressure points. Officers apply a tourniquet and check his pulse. 27:38 The man has “TK” written on his forehead, with a time tag around his neck. 27:50 A wounded man lays on the floor, his arm spurting blood. Other officers administer first aid, apply pressure to the pressure point, and administer a tourniquet. 28:52 Officers apply first aid to a man with a wounded leg, using a tourniquet. 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