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This handy pocket-size guide is packed with all the info you need to stay alive and well in the field, including disease diagnosis and treatment, drugs and dosages, emergency paramedical skills and preventative medicine. A superb all-round detailed medical guide for anyone, anywhere in the world, it gives a thorough analysis of a wide variety of symptoms, possible medical conditions and the best way to deal with such conditions with limited resource.Special sections cover wartime emergencies (burn and blast injuries; nuclear, biological and chemical warfare; and emergency surgery) as well as primitive and veterinary medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics and orthopaedics.In addition, it also includes practical survival techniques, and detailed laboratory means of identifying many major diseases. A potentially life-saving addition for anyone military or civilian in the field.