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First and foremost, I would be hard-pressed to be convinced that one needn’t prepare themselves with something more than rudimentary medical knowledge and trauma care before even attempting to provide first aid and care to the ill. Infection too easily progresses to sepsis and death in a non-sterile environment. “Cooties” are everywhere. All from the standpoint of medicine in a disaster where medical care might be significantly delayed or not coming at all: I can’t say I’ve read them all, but I’ve read a lot with numerous on my bookshelf. Tops in my book (pun intended) is “The Survival Medicine Handbook” (Alton and Alton), an excellent treatise for “… when medical help is NOT on the way”. Comprehensively written trade paper back of some 660 pages written/compiled by and MD and his ARNP. Though its illistrations are all B&W, I would have preferred full color, but I’m sure that would have increased the book’s price significantly. An terrific adjunct to the Survival Medicine Handbook is “Alton’s Antibiotics and Infectious Disease” (Alton and Alton) book. Drawing from and expanding on the info in the SMH, it offers suggestions for building a cache of antibiotics. The author’s discuss broad spectrum antibiotics and those that target specific types of bacterial infections. (Hopefully the untrained followers of this thread realize that antibiotics do not/will not be affect viral or fungal infections.) A potentially highly useful reference in an EOTWAWKI scenario, the Merck Manual of Medical Home Edition. The Merck Manual is typically an MD’s reference. The Home Edition is written more for the layman. In the extreme there is “Ditch Medicine, Advanced Field Procedures for Emergencies” (Coffee).

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First and foremost, I would be hard-pressed to be convinced that one needn’t prepare themselves with something more than rudimentary medical knowledge and trauma care before even attempting to provide first aid and care to the ill. Infection too easily progresses to sepsis and death in a non-sterile environment. “Cooties” are everywhere. All from the standpoint of medicine in a disaster where medical care might be significantly delayed or not coming at all: I can’t say I’ve read them all, but I’ve read a lot with numerous on my bookshelf. Tops in my book (pun intended) is “The Survival Medicine Handbook” (Alton and Alton), an excellent treatise for “… when medical help is NOT on the way”. Comprehensively written trade paper back of some 660 pages written/compiled by and MD and his ARNP. Though its illistrations are all B&W, I would have preferred full color, but I’m sure that would have increased the book’s price significantly. An terrific adjunct to the Survival Medicine Handbook is “Alton’s Antibiotics and Infectious Disease” (Alton and Alton) book. Drawing from and expanding on the info in the SMH, it offers suggestions for building a cache of antibiotics. The author’s discuss broad spectrum antibiotics and those that target specific types of bacterial infections. (Hopefully the untrained followers of this thread realize that antibiotics do not/will not be affect viral or fungal infections.) A potentially highly useful reference in an EOTWAWKI scenario, the Merck Manual of Medical Home Edition. The Merck Manual is typically an MD’s reference. The Home Edition is written more for the layman. In the extreme there is “Ditch Medicine, Advanced Field Procedures for Emergencies” (Coffee).