A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions / by George A. Otis.

  • George Alexander Otis
Date:
1875
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Credit: A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions / by George A. Otis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Spain are divided into compartments, Dr. Landa designed* to fit up freight-cars with upright posts and superimposed litters suspended by elastic rings. The . I . — 1 1 « rJ- 1 Ni:-™^ , . H Fig. 35.—Exterior of a Spanish hox-car. [After Landa.] Fig. 36.—End section of the sameioith litters. [After Landa.] ^^^^^^^yy^-'yy.^^y^^^^J^:^ position of the side doors in the Spanish box-cars (Fig. 35), which are of about the same dipaensions as the German cars of the same class, permitted six tiers of litters to be placed with sufficient intervening passage-way (Fig. 37). Thus eighteen berths were provided in each car, though necessarily in very close contiguity. This is a very ingenious arrange- ment, although the number of oc- _, „» n- • . 7 7 ^.1 7- cupants is much too great for the Fig. 37.—Horizontal plan of the preceding J^_ _ ° [After Landa.] cubic capacity of the car. Only six upright posts were required. The stretchers were attached to these and to the sides of the car by means of iron hooks and strong elastic rubber-rings '^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^y Fig. 38.—Lateral view of the preceding. [After Landa.] Fig. 39.—Mode of suspension of litters in Dr. Landa's project. (Fig. 39). Wliether this system has been submitted to experimental trials, * Landa (D. Nicasio Y Alvarez de Carvallo) Transporte de Heridos y Enfennos por vias ferreas y navegables, Madrid, 1866, p. 52, et seq. Dr. Landa is an ardent admirer of the plan proposed by Dr. Harris : Este hombre benefico era el Dr. Elisha-Harris, afamado prdctieo de New York, y uno de los fundadores de la poderosa Comision Sanitaria de los Estados-Unidos: .4 €1 corresponde la gloria de haber inventado los wagones hospitales.
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