. A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions . tters andill \^^\ patients with safety. I ...llill ^^^^ In France there was but little opportunity during the late war for the systematic transportof wounded by railway; but several militaryWm\ —-mtf surgeons paid much attention to the subject, H, ;i|,l llllilil^^== especially M. Gauvin, whose admirable con- trivances have been noticed (p. 26), 4A.—Method of suspendina Legouest, Riegert, Morache and Le Fort. || s
. A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions . tters andill \^^\ patients with safety. I ...llill ^^^^ In France there was but little opportunity during the late war for the systematic transportof wounded by railway; but several militaryWm\ —-mtf surgeons paid much attention to the subject, H, ;i|,l llllilil^^== especially M. Gauvin, whose admirable con- trivances have been noticed (p. 26), 4A.—Method of suspendina Legouest, Riegert, Morache and Le Fort. || sioinging poles in freight-cars com,- mi i .; .1 , • ,• c -i mended by M. Le Foet. [After Le The latter proposes that, in time of peace, eachFort.] railroad company should have at least a hun- dred freight-cars provided with wide end doors and platforms arranged asdrawbridges. The doors could be closed and the platform bridges drawn upexcept where the cars were converted to hospital use. M. Le Fort objects tothe mode of suspension by caoutchouc rings, on the ground that it is necessary,in order that they should be safe, to make the rings of a thickness that. *WiTTELSHbFEE (L.) Die Freiicillige Hilfe iin Kriege und das Militdr-Sanitdts-Wesen aufder Wiener Weltausstellung, 1873, Tafel XXV. fPELTZER (M.) Die Deutschen Sanitdtszilge und der Dienat als Etappen-Arzt im Kriege gegenFrankreich, Berlin, 1872, S. 27. t It was stated that after the capture of Metz, long trains of cars fitted up on this systemwere used as stationary hospitals for the wounded of Bazaines army. One side door wasclosed, and wooden steps were built at the opposite door. This novel form of field hospitalanswered the purpose remarkably well. li Le Fort (Leon) La Chirurgie militaire et les Sociitis de Secours en France et d IEtranger,Paris, 1872, p. 148, et. seq. AND WOUNDED ON EAIL EOADS. 39 annihilates the elastic property of the caoutchouc. He believes that spiralsteel springs and hooks (Fig. 44) might
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