Hygienic and medical reports [electronic resource] . TRANSPORTATION OF SICK AND WOUNDED. 1015 around Ms bearers necks, or when unable to do this, being heldin place by other assistants; but in cases where the inferiorextremities are severely injured and require tender handlingand support, this method will not answer, nor is it feasible,when the ladder is not wide enough for two men to Medical Inspector Albert C. Gorgas, U. S. Kavy, in 1864, de-vised an ai)paratus which was intended to obviate the objectionsto the hospital cot as a means of transport, and in recent yearsthis ha
Hygienic and medical reports [electronic resource] . TRANSPORTATION OF SICK AND WOUNDED. 1015 around Ms bearers necks, or when unable to do this, being heldin place by other assistants; but in cases where the inferiorextremities are severely injured and require tender handlingand support, this method will not answer, nor is it feasible,when the ladder is not wide enough for two men to Medical Inspector Albert C. Gorgas, U. S. Kavy, in 1864, de-vised an ai)paratus which was intended to obviate the objectionsto the hospital cot as a means of transport, and in recent yearsthis has been in use on board many vessels of the Kavy. Itschief peculiarity is a leather-covered double inclined plane, 1016 TRANSPORTATION OF SICK AND WOUNDED. raised and lowered by a hinged centre and made to work upona wooden ratchet attached to each side of the lower half of thecot-frame. The thighs and legs being flexed over this plane, itsupper surface sustains the weight of the body, when the headof the cot is elevated, while a narrow leather band, passedthrough two long leather or canvas loops nailed to the upper cross-piece of the frame, istied around the chest, un-der the arms, and preventsits tilting forward. Thebody is also partly sup-ported by the breast-strap,but its lower two-thirdsare not confined in anyway, and as the edge ofthe inclined plane is aptto slip out of the notchesin the
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