A treatise on the transport of sick and wounded troops / by T. Longmore ; illustrated by nearly two hundred woodcuts.

  • Thomas Longmore
Date:
[1869]
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Credit: A treatise on the transport of sick and wounded troops / by T. Longmore ; illustrated by nearly two hundred woodcuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Page Appliances to adapt passenger carriages and luggage vans for certain patients ---------451 Railway sick-transport carriage at ChiHons ----- 452 Chief railway vehicles available for sick transport during war - - 453 Use of field stretchers in railway vehicles ----- 454 Section III.—Tlans hitherto adopted or proposed in Foreign Countries - 455 Practical experiments in Prussia in 1860 ----- 455 Objections to slinging hammocks in railway carriages - - - 456 To straw-system of railway ambulance transport - - - - 457 New system adopted in Prussia in 1867 - - - - - 458 German fourth-class carriages : suspension of stretchers in them - - 459 Carriage of patients into these carriages - - - - - 460 Number of them fitted for transport in June 1868 - - - - 461 Adaptation of luggage vans in Prussia for transporting wounded - - 462 Practical experiments at Paris in 1867 and 1868 - - - - 463 Baden contrivances for transport of wounded by railway - - - 464 Stretchers on suspended poles ------ 465 Swinging litters for use on floors of goods' wagons - - - - 466 Gauvin system of railway transport ------ 467 Trials of it: their results - - - - - - fcf Experiments on the effects of collisions in a tram - - - - 468 Litters for first-class carriages ------ 470 Semi-recumbent litters for first-class carriages - - - f liitter-supports for third-class carriages - - - - ~ zIa Eailway transnort of wounded in the United States - - - - 474 Transport of wounded in the Potomac army in 1863 - - - fit Conversion of passenger cars into sick-transport cars - - f United States'cars, their ventilation: lighting: equipment - - ' Prussian and American systems compared - Application of latter system to English railways - - - Introduction of sleeping carriages - - Transport by railway in India . - - - - Moves of regiments in India of invalids r - - - ' Vt^ Invalid transports: transport by overland route - ' foo Distances of Indian railways: no means for carrying recumbent mvaUds - 482 Proportion ofbed-ridden patients in batches of invalids - - - 4ad Inspector-General Beatson's plan of railway hospital transport Invalid carriages proposed for Indian railways , ^ ., Eegulations for convoys of sick and wounded travelling by railway - Disposal of kits: supplies of sick-comforts: preparation of carnages - 486 Admission into carriages: inspection: smoTcmg: halts: orders - - 4S7 Arrangements at place of destination: disposal of convoy - - - 4B8 476 478 479 479 - 483 - 484 - 485 APPENDIX. Page - 489 S l-t7L''X^Zroic.sn.mes in .Ir, inchiking tables sho-wing th^ ratios of killed, wounded, and missing in various battles ; and the proportions ] of wounded capable of being carried sitting to those reqmring to b_e carried No'Ts^Articlesofthe Geneva Convention of 1864 - - - 499 Note 4—Dr. Gurlt's atlas of ambulance materiel . - rm Tj^f^ ThP waffons which gained prizes at Pans in 1867 - . ''^ No 6-SnSn of the p'russianVar Office Order of July 1861, regulating the transport of wounded soldiers on railways - - - ^-^
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