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Do-It-Yourself Medicine: How to Find and Use the Most Effective Antibiotics, Painkillers, Anesthetics and Other Miracle Drugs... Without Costly Doctors' Prescriptions or Hospitals

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I don't recommend this book. As with most books by survial author "Ragnar Benson" it is full of innaccuracies and half truths. There is some basic information on setting bones, stitching wounds, and other simple topics, but it is not very well addressed -- It's almost as if the author has no idea what he's talking about and is simply repeating urban knowledge thirdhand. As far as his information of how to aquire the various supplies, there are far better, easier, and more legal ways than he describes here. The misinformation presented here is likely to get you in trouble. "DITCH MEDICINE" is a far better book.

Full of less than half information, just do your EMT Basic license at a local community college. Its a real qualification and you know that you met a standard. After all, people are not legos and in an emergency you want skills you can depend on...because thats exactly what you'll be doing.

The author spends a lot of time telling you how to obtain drugs normally available only through doctors (and ranting about government control) while not spending a lot of time on the medical aspects that the title leads you to believe.

I suppose that his suggestions about forging prescriptions shouldn't be surprising when his other books tell readers how to gunrun for profit, acquire new id, build claymore mines, etc.

A listing of the errors and inaccuracies in this book would fill a small paperback in itself. If a person hasn't been trained in the basics of emergency medical science, some of the procedures advocated in this book could prove lethal to a patient if performed by an amateur.

The book can best be characterized this way: even the author's method for forging prescriptions is obsolete.

If you're looking for a felony conviction, this is your book. If you're interested in sound do-it-yourself emergency healthcare procedures, try one of the books recommended by the other medical professionals who reviewed this one.

"Do It Yourself Medicine" contains much information that you won't get from your family doctor or the typical Medic. At the current time, many Veterinarian medications are available and being purchased and used by farmer/ranchers. Most mentioned are available without a Vet's prescription from local sources or thru mail order Vet supply companies. (use google). I think you will find the cost of this do-it-yourself guide well worth the price you are paying for it. As a matter of policy, I have to advise, as Ragnar does, that the novice should only consider administering these treatments and medications when in dire and isolated circumstances when no better option exists for the patient. That being said, every family and wilderness travel group should have a trained and experienced Medic. This little book will prove to be very valuable to them.
DH

This book is very informative about doing your own doctoring and how to obtain medicines legally without doctors prescriptions of hospitals. The one thing that I wished he would've covered was holistic and herbal medicines but other than that a great book to reference.

This book , written years ago now is about as helpful as reading the back of an anti-diarrhea medicine bottle. Ragnor has many books printed through Palidin press and some might even be helpful...this is not. Save your money and get a copy of " Medicine for Mountaineering" instead. As a Viet-nam era Medic I of course am a bit ahead of the average novice. However, relating how he helped animals out of country once upon a time has little impact on people that may need to use common sense and emergency medicine. Take a CPR course and get on the internet. Amazon is a Great source of medical supplies, from Hemostats to sutures. Use the internet to find tons of useful info, go to your libraby for free. Ragnor should have had this book pulled a long time ago...but why do that when people will continue to buy it in the hope of a little help. I purchased this as research for a book. What a dissapointment ! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK...Ragnor will sell some of his others.

This book is exactly what you'd expect from Benson. It tells you what you need to know, and how to get or do it. Pretty simple. You should have this one on the shelf.

Awesome book, very happy to add it to my now growing collection of survival/combat medic library.

This is something to have on hand during collapse/civil war. Big fan of Ragnar Benson, ive bought alot of his books from Amazon. Theres not alot more i could say about this book, if your looking at it then you probably know why, the title of the book tells it all.

This book has good information some of which I will use for backpacking. The only thing I was not happy with is that to get products they recommend traveling out to the country. The product was shipped promptly and in great shape