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Identifier: b20403513 (find matches)
Title: Hygienic and medical reports (electronic resource)
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, Joseph Benson, 1841-1915 United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Sanitary and medical reports
Subjects: United States. Navy Naval hygiene Naval Medicine
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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f the legs be injured there are additional bands toconfine them. Tlie cot also permits a man to be swung over aships side in a heavy sea-way, and landed in a boat withoutdanger of falling out. He is to remain in the cot in the boat,the elastic side pieces making a comfortable spring-bed. Onshore he can be placed in any kind of wagon, the ends of theside-pieces being placed on any sort of support, and the spring-ing of these side-pieces will prevent jarring. If there is nowagon about, two or four men can take hold of the extremitiesof the side-pieces and walk away with him to his bedside in ahospital. When not in use the staves and stretchers can beunshipped, placed inside the canvas, and the whole rolled upcompactly and placed between the beams overhead. The model is very well made, and is by far the best andmost complete ambulance cot that we have seen in the navalservice. This model is 7 feet in length by 3 in width. Shouldthese dimensions be considered too great they can be reduced
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TRANSPORTATION OT SICK AND WOUNDED. 1019 to^6 feet in length by 2^ feet in breadtli without affecting theefficiency of the cot. Eespectfully, yours, O. C. BADGER, ^ Captain, U. S. W.^F. M. GU™ELL, Medical Director, U. 8. If,T. D. MYERS,Td AssH Surgeon, U. 8. N.Commodore J. 0. FEBiaER, U. S. Commandants Upon the endorsement of this report by the Surgeon-Generalof the ^^avy, and by his recommendation the Chief of the Bureauof Equipment and Recruiting has authorized the issue of twoambulance cots of this description to every vessel in the Navyhaving a complement exceeding two hundred and fifty officersand men, and one to every vessel of which the comi)lement isless than this number. The apparatus consists essentially of an oblong i^iece of stoutcanvas, 7 feet long and 3 feet wide, with the sides (leeches) andends doubled and sewed to form casings to receive two stavesof tough elastic wood (preferably of bamboo) 8 feet long, andtwo stretchers of the same material 3 feet long. The extrem

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