📚 First Aid

The minutes before the ambulance: bandage, breath and circulation, taught to everybody rather than specialists.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject first aid in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The ship captain's medical guide	Harry Leach	1868	8
	First aid in emergencies	Eldridge L. Eliason	1915	8
	Illustrations of bandaging and first aid	Lois Oakes	1940	8
	First responder	J. David Bergeron	1982	8
	A manual of instruction in the principles of prompt aid to the injured	Doty, Alvah H.	1894	7
	Backwoods surgery & medicine	Charles Stuart Moody	1910	7
	Prevention of disease and care of the sick	W. G. Stimpson	1917	7
	Practical First Aid	British Red Cross Society.	1969	7
	Practical Wildlife Care	Les Stocker	2000	7
	First aid, CPR, and AED	Alton L. Thygerson	2004	7
	Sport first aid	Melinda J. Flegel	1992	6
	Household surgery, or, Hints on emergencies	John Flint South	1847	5
	Johnson's first aid manual	Fred B. Kilmer	1901	5
	Wilderness medicine	William W. Forgey	1979	5
	Medicine for the outdoors	Paul S. Auerbach	1986	5
	Emergency care	Andrew W. Stern	2005	5
	The accidents of human life	Newton Bosworth	1813	4
	American Red Cross abridged text-book on first aid	Charles Lynch	1910	4
	American Red cross first aid text-book	American National Red Cross	1933	4
	Advanced first aid afloat	Peter F. Eastman	1972	4
	First aid for health emergencies	Brent Q. Hafen	1977	4
	First aid homoeopathy in accidents and ailments	D. M. Gibson	1978	4
	Boy Scouts of America's Be Prepared First Aid	DK Publishing	2007	4
	First Aid Basics	Elizabeth Lang	2013	4
	American Red Cross abridged text-book on first aid	Lynch, Charles	1913	3
	First aid competitions and casualty make-up	A. C. White Knox	1952	3
	The essentials of first aid	St John Ambulance Association and Brigade.	1967	3
	Foundations of nursing and first aid	Janet S. Ross	1970	3
	First aid principles and procedures	Pamela Bakhaus DoCarmo	1976	3
	The first aid book	Alton L. Thygerson	1982	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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