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

  • Longmore, T. (Thomas), Sir, 1816-1895.
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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Page Usage to ■which field stores are exposed in ■war time - . _ 120 Complex design a frequent cause of rejecting proposed field appliances - 121 Stretchers -with folding backs : of questionable utility - - - 121 Weisse's stretchers - - - - - - -121 Stretchers with handles convertible into feet - - _ . 122 United States' stretcher with hinged handles - - _ _ 122 Stretchers with moveable head-pieces - •• - - - 12? Bigg's folding stretcher : purposes to which it could be applied - - 123 Colonel Clerk's field stretcher - - - - - -123 Stretchers within frames or outer side-poles - _ _ _ 123 Wahl's folding stretcher - - - - - - -125 Vinois' and Piotrowski's jointed stretcher for two patients - - 125 Remarks on models of proposed conveyances - - - - 125 Real merits can only be tested by 7)a^<ems - _ _ _ _ 126 British regulation field stretcher : its construction and dimensions - - 126 Advantageous qualities of it: its disadvantages in the field - - 128 Old pattern stretcher without feet of the United States' army - - 129 Importance of feet to stretchers ------ 129 Increased breakage from addition of feet: feet joined to traverses - - 130 French regulation stretcher carried in the caisson d'ambulance - - 131 Erench stretcher -with divided poles for carriage on bat-animals - - 132 General remarks on stretchers with divided poles - - - - 133 Long stretcher poles less inconvenient now than formerly - - - 133 Stretchers carried by bandsmen ------ 133 Percy's views on field stretchers - - - - - -134 Stretchers as part of personal equipment of bearers . - _ 134 Percy's plan of equipping bearers for the field . - - - 134 Millingen's modification of it - - - - - - 134 Bedford's portable stretcher with divided poles _ - - - 136 Its construction - - - - - - - - 137 Redford's equipment for bearers - - - - - -138 Propriety of special equipments considered - - - - 139 Pramed stretchers : general remarks on them - - - - 139 Objections to them - - _ ■ - - - - 140 Halstead folding framed stretcher ------ 140 Prussian folding framed sti'etcher - - - - - -141 Fischer's framed stretcher for patient seated _ _ - - 142 Manner of using it 143 Results of trials of it at Netley - - - - - - 144 Weight of stretchers - - - - - - -146 Stretchers of the Confederate States' armies _ - _ - 146 Effects of their overweight as described by Chisholm _ - - 146 Stretchers peculiar from their component materials . - - 147 Prussian iron network stretcher ------ 147 Jones's iron-band stretcher - - - - - -148 Arrault's stretcher with netting bottom - - - - - 149 Stretchers designed for other besides sick-transport purposes - - 149 Brancard compresse of Dr. Martres - - - - - 150 Palasciano's stretcher - - - - - -150 Arrault's stretcher and operatmg table combined - - - - 151 Section Jll.—Secondary stretchers^ for use in wheeled vehicles, or fixed hospitals - - - - - - ~ -152 British regimental ambulance wagon stretcher - - - - 152 Its construction and dimensions - - - - -153 Holmes's box stretchers, or folding litters - - - - - 154 Designed for Holmes's ambulance carriages - - - - 154 Fitted to Maltese carts ------- 15* Their construction and dimensions - - - ' icr Neuss's ambulance wagon stretcher - - - ' }lt French stretcher of the Macou cart: its construction and dmiensions - 157 Captain Russell's spring or camp-hospital stretcher - - - 158 Qualities of this stretcher - Stretchers combining primary and secondary qualities Reasons for trying to combine these qualities in stretchers Netley spring-stretcher ------ Gauvin's spring-stretcher ---•* 158 159 159 159 159