. 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 . ance of some expedient that may be con-stantly available. Among the contrivances for sick-transport of every description exposed inthe Champ de Mars on the occasion referred to, were several specially designedto facilitate the transport of wounded on cars ordinarily in use on of these devices, presented by the Baden delegation, attracted especial notice,and was subjected to experiment on the branch of the Western
. 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 . ance of some expedient that may be con-stantly available. Among the contrivances for sick-transport of every description exposed inthe Champ de Mars on the occasion referred to, were several specially designedto facilitate the transport of wounded on cars ordinarily in use on of these devices, presented by the Baden delegation, attracted especial notice,and was subjected to experiment on the branch of the Western railway thatentered the Exposition grounds. This apparatus, manufactured by Messrs. Fried-rich Fischer & Co., of Heidelberg, has been described by Professor Longmore,and in greater detail by Professor Grurlt, from whose magnificent iconographicwork* a condensed account is here compiled, with much-reduced copies of the * GuELT (E.) Ahhildungen zur Kranhenpjlege im Felde auf Grund der Internationalen Ausatel-lung der Hilfs- Vereine fur Verwundete zu Paris, im Jahre 1867, und mit Benutzung der bestenVorhandenen Modelle, Berlin, 1868. AND WOUNDED ON RAILROADS. 25. Fig. 20.—Longitudinal section of one-third of ahaggage-car, icith litters swung on the Baden plan. [After GuELT.] accompanying drawings. The apparatus is intended for use in covered bag-gage cars, the litters being suspended upon swinging bars of bars or poles are provided ateach end with iron caps or bandswith projecting loops, connectedby leathern straps and buckleswith iron hooks. The bars arehung transversely about four feetapart (Fig. 20) to iron rings securedby eye-bolts in the side of the rings are commonly found incattle cars, in the proper places;but if not they must be inserted(Fig. 21). Oa each pair of theswinging bars, (and one pair is putin the fore-part and one in the rear-part of the car) two or three littersmay be placed, which permits six re-cumbent patients to be carried onth
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