Handbook of the medical organisations (chiefly for war) of foreign armies / by Lieut.-Colonel Frank Howard.

  • Howard, Frank, Lieutenant Colonel.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Handbook of the medical organisations (chiefly for war) of foreign armies / by Lieut.-Colonel Frank Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I 6 Ambubmces will be usefl for the transportation of sick and injured, the instruction of the liospital corps and company bearers, and in urgent cases for the transportation of medical supplies, and all persons are prohibited from using them or requiring or permitting them to be used for any other purpose. No person except the proper medical officers, or the officers, N.C.O. s, and privates of the ambulance service, or such persons as may be specially assigned by compe- tent military authority to do duty therewith, will be permitted to take or accompany sick or injured men to the rear either on the march or elsewhere. When members of the hospital corps are detailed for service in the field during Indian wars, or when left with sick or wounded under circumstances which justify the expectation that their rights as Lou-combatants under the Geneva Convention will not be recognised, com- manding officers will issue to members of the hospital corps revolvers or other available firearms. It is laid down in the Manual for the Medical Department (1900) that the ambulance and hospital service of each independent command, will be under the supervision of its chief surgeon. This officer should make all necessai-y arrangements for the care and transportation of the wounded, who, during an engagement will receive attention at the following principal points and in the following order :— First.—With the line of battle under fire. Second.—At the first dressing stations. Third.—At the ambulance stations. Fourth.—At the division, brigade, or field hospitals. The chief surgeon ostablislies the ambulance stations in the rear, and gives directions concerning the first dressing stations ; details the ])roper number of privates of the hospital coi-ps, acting hospital stewards, hospital stewards and medical officers for