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168 cords and drag him out of the room along the floor, crawling on all fours yourself.

A soldier was recently awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for thus getting his wounded officer into safety while being fired at by the enemy.

To do this you lay the patient on his back, make a bow-line at each end of your rope, one you put over the

Moving an insensible girl.

patient's chest and under his arms, and the other over your own neck, then with your back to his head you start on "all fours" to pull him along, head first. If the bowline is the right length it will keep his head up off the ground, as the picture shows.

Burns.—In treating a man who has been burnt, remove his clothes, not by peeling them off, but by cutting them with a knife or scissors. If any part of the dress sticks to the skin from having been burnt there do not tear it away, but cut the cloth round it, then as quickly as possible protect the burnt parts from the air, which causes intense pain. The best way to protect them is by dusting them with powdered chalk or flour, or by laying strips of lint well soaked in sweet oil or linseed oil, and covering the whole with cotton wool, or by pouring