Helps for suddain accidents : Stephen Bradwell and the origin of the first aid guide / Norman Gevitz.
Abstract:
'In 1633 Stephen Bradwell, a third-generation English physician, introduced something novel to the lay medical literature: the initial volume in a genre now commonly referred to as the first aid guide ... Bradwell's little book ... is ... quite important, for it sheds considerable light on the theoretical and practical parameters of lay interventions and is an important source book for understanding the nonprofessional management of accidents in the early 17th century.'
Bulletin of the history of medicine Vol. 67 (1993), p. 51-73