This convenient pocket-size reference has all of the information you'll need to be alive and well in the field, including disease diagnosis and treatment, medications and dosages, emergency paramedical skills, and preventive medicine. Wartime emergencies (burns and blast injuries; nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare; and emergency surgery), as well as primitive and veterinary medicine, obstetrics, pediatrics, and orthopedics, are all covered in special parts. Practical survival strategies are also included.