Ship Captain's Medical Guide, free download

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I can't do a link, but I have just randomly discovered that this fat, expensive book is free to download from the Department of Transport, you need Adobe Acrobat.
PS it covers alcoholic stupor, delivering babies, and dealing with cadavers..
 
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You can do a link, just paste in the address and the forum automatically turns it into a link.

(The PDFs have been available to download for years, but I bought the book (cheap, second-hand) because paper works better in the sort of situation where you might want this.)

Pete
 
prv said:
You can do a link, just paste in the address and the forum automatically turns it into a link.

(The PDFs have been available to download for years, but I bought the book (cheap, second-hand) because paper works better in the sort of situation where you might want this.)

Pete
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I can't do a link on my ipad, however I can take a photo of the birth canal and email it to somebody, try that with a book.
 
Is the advice for prenanat womoen still along the lines of:
1) do not let them onbaord,
2) really do not let them onboard
3) If a a woman is going to have a baby onboard , leave her to it offer calm reasurance she will know what to do :D
 
jerrytug said:
I can't do a link on my ipad, however I can take a photo of the birth canal and email it to somebody, try that with a book.
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When you go to a page on a web site on an ipad and you want to copy the URL all you have to do is click on the bar at the top/middle of the page, then hold the displayed URL, select copy and then you can paste it in a thread ... :)
 
In the days of sail the Guide was used in conjunction with a ship's medicine chest containing numbered bottles of medicine. The captain would look up the symptoms in the Guide and be told which number medicine to use.

An AB went to the old man complaining of stomach cramps. The old man consulted the Guide, which suggested a dose of bottle number 20. The number 20 bottle was empty so he gave him a dose of number 12 and a dose of number 8. Next day the AB was better.
 
parsifal said:
An AB went to the old man complaining of stomach cramps. The old man consulted the Guide, which suggested a dose of bottle number 20. The number 20 bottle was empty so he gave him a dose of number 12 and a dose of number 8. Next day the AB was better.
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I'm also given to understand that 'a dose of Number 10, twice a day, until cured' is also likely to be efficacious..... :rolleyes:
 
Hi Mike, re #6, how about a "sexually transmitted terminal condition",

+1 for "I have a hard copy for use on the boat but want a single file for easier search etc for research and preparation" (OK it can be done in File Manager but it is not as easy). Cheers Andrew
 
prv said:
How strange, I can on mine.

Pete
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It's not strange, I just don't speak computer language, not a word, any more than you speak Inuit.*
Unfortunately that seems to mean that it is impossible to explain the proceedure to me, because it cannot be described in English or French.
Never mind, I compensate in other ways..
(*probably)
 
onesea said:
Is the advice for prenanat womoen still along the lines of:
1) do not let them onbaord,
2) really do not let them onboard
3) If a a woman is going to have a baby onboard , leave her to it offer calm reasurance she will know what to do :D
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So am I the only person to get asked about emergency childbirth at sea on their yacht master exam?
 
onesea said:
Is the advice for prenanat womoen still along the lines of:
1) do not let them onbaord,
2) really do not let them onboard
3) If a a woman is going to have a baby onboard , leave her to it offer calm reassurance she will know what to do :D
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I haven't seen a recommendation for the first aid kit of including a pregnancy test (or Lidl's condoms, for that matter!)...

Mike.
 
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