Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excerpt:-"My Lords you are impatient for the sacrifice! The blood which you seek is not congealed by the artificial terrors which surround your victim, it circulates warmly and unruffled through the channels which God created for noble purposes but which you are about to destroy. ... I am going to my cold and silent grave-my lamp of life is nearly extinguished-my race is run, the grave opens to receive and I sink into its bosom. ... Let no man write my epitaph for as no man knows my motives dare now vindicate them. Let them and me repose...
When the back is broken, first-aiders "should gently roll the victim on to a blanket so that he rests face downward. When the blanket is lifted, the victim's back sags, thus making him sway-back and removing pressure from the spinal cord...
When the neck is broken, first-aiders "should gently roll the victim on a plank so that he rests face upward, and under no circumstances with the head tilted forward. This is the best position to prevent movement of the fractured cervical vertebrae...
...victim must be carried by hand, four first-aiders "should form a team-one at the victim's head, another at his feet, the others at each hip. While those at the hips lift and carry, the others gently pull and carry. The traction at head and feet holds the vertebrae apart and prevents them from grinding against the injured cord...
...When the victim is unconscious, "handle him as though his neck or back were broken...