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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    five windows ©n each side and end doors, of insufficient width to admit stretchers, and end platforms. They were provided with 5 beds, 3 on one side and 2 on the other (Figs. 47, 48), leaving a space for a stove and table. The beds were supported by a modification of the Grrund system, that is, on semi-elliptical Fig. 47.—Horizontal plan of a Bavarian hospital car. [After Hieschbeeg.] springs, secured as in the Prussian plan approved by Dr. Loeffler, but raised higher from the floor by vertical boards resting immediately on the springs. The upright planks were notched at the top to receive the side poles of field stretchers or camp bedsteads, supporting thick hair mattresses with wedge- shaped pillows. A board standing upright by the lower third of each window protected the patient from cold draughts, and served as a tray at meal times. Fig. 48.—Lateral section of a Bavarian third-class car transformed for hospital use. [After Hieschbeeg.] The Bavarian freight cars were fitted with camp bedsteads supported in like manner, two at each end of the car, on frames resting on springs (FiG. 49). One of the wide side-doors of the car was kept closed, and the other doorway was provided with a gang-plank, with cross slats. After loading the car, this plank could be laid transversely in the middle of the car, with the slats down- wards, and be made to serve as a platform for a fifth pallet, without springs, still leaving space by the closed door for a bench for the attendant. The freight cars were very inferior in point of comfort to the converted third-class passenger ears, as they did not communicate with the rest of the train, and 6
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