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About a million years ago we were taught to treat a "sucking chest wound" as follows. Place clean plastic (cigarette pack cellophane was usually cited as being generally nearby) over the wound and wait for an inhalation to swell the chest cavity, then seal the plastic as well as possible. The inhalation swells the lungs and pushes foreign air out of the chest cavity, to some extent. When inhaling a slight vacuum against the plastic is hoped for.
So is the old training wrong on that?
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‘‘Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.’’ ~ Mahatma Ghandi, "Gandhi, An Autobiography", page 446
‘‘The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.’’ ~ Patrick Henry
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