Review: Illustrations of Bandaging and First-Aid
| Date | 01 April 1940 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X4001300220 |
| Published date | 01 April 1940 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
THE POLICE JOURNAL
The
second booklet gets down to brass tacks, so to speak, and deals with
your purpose in life, the enormous importance of self-confidence, and the
even greater importance of a good memory.
The
succeeding booklets carry
the pupil right through the list of the mental qualifications required to succeed
in that organised state of society which we call our civilisation. And it tells
the pupil how to acquire these qualifications-more, it enables him (provided
always that he takes the course as seriously as it should be taken) to acquire
them in the surest and most expeditious way.
We do not think it would be possible for any intelligent man to fail to
derive benefit from this course of mind
training-provided
(and this is im-
portant) that he sticks to it and goes through the course conscientiously and
thoroughly, obeying the Pelman instructions to the letter and doing all the
exercises prescribed. (By the way, there are physical jerks also to be done
when you get up in the morning; for the propounders of this system believe
in the motto mens sana in
corpore
sano-a
healthy mind in a healthy body.
These exercises seem excellent.) Unless therefore a man is determined to go
through with it to the very best of his ability he had better keep his guineas in
his pocket.
It
is not for
the"
old sweat."
It
is not for the man who makes the
rank of sergeant the summit of his ambition. But we are convinced that any
progressive policeman who aims at the higher ranks and who takes this course
in the way we have indicated cannot fail to benefit by it.
It
is not too easy,
but
not too hard, and there is nothing in it which is beyond the powers of any
ordinary intelligent man who has continued his education after leaving school
and who has sufficient ambition to want to get on in the world.
The
time taken to complete the course varies from three to six months,
and it costs seven guineas if prepayment is made, or eight guineas if paid by
monthly instalments.
The
address of the Institute is Pelman House, Blooms-
bury Street, London,
W.C.I.
JARROLDS'
DICTIONARY
OF
DIFFICULT
WORDS. Compiled by
ROBERT
H. HILL. (Jarrolds, London. No date.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
THISis a useful book, size
71
by 41, of 452 pages, which the publishers allege
to
contain"
all the difficult words you are likely to meet."
It
defines 15,000
words, most of them pertaining to the sciences. Agood many common words
have crept
in-we
should not have called annihilate, oakum, or prodigy
"difficult."
On the other hand eucaine, a local ansesthetic, finds a place
but
not the commoner stovaine. But these are small matters and we cordially
recommend the book(which is remarkably cheap) asa useful reference volume
for policemen of all ranks. A simple key to the correct pronunciation of every
word is provided. Paper and print could not be bettered.
ILLUSTRATIONS
OF
BANDAGING
AND
FIRST-AID.
Compiled
by
LOIS
OAKES.
(Livingstone, Edinburgh. 1940.) Price 6s. net.
THIS is another excellent book by the Editor of Nursing Illustrated (we re-
viewed her Pocket Medical Dictionary in
1938-voI.
xi, no. 2).
It
is entirely
a picture book, consisting of 290 photographs of triangular and roller ban-
daging, the arrest of hremorrhage, and first aid in fractures, with explanatory
text.
The
illustrations are good, and the text is lucid and adequate.
It
will be
useful to first aid workers and classes and should be in every policeman's
library. Incidentally it should be of value to the county policeman's wife
in remote districts.
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