. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 4051.—Smiths Extemporized Litter. the fact that the hammock hangs below the pole and notat an uncomfortable distance from the ground, nor abovethe view of the bearers. Litters of this kind were usedwith great satisfaction by the British in the AshanteeWar of 1873 and 1874, each litter being provided with apillow formed from a spare hammock, which was alsoused for a litter when emergency dictated. III. Wliere the Patient is Carried upon Articles Di-verted to
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 4051.—Smiths Extemporized Litter. the fact that the hammock hangs below the pole and notat an uncomfortable distance from the ground, nor abovethe view of the bearers. Litters of this kind were usedwith great satisfaction by the British in the AshanteeWar of 1873 and 1874, each litter being provided with apillow formed from a spare hammock, which was alsoused for a litter when emergency dictated. III. Wliere the Patient is Carried upon Articles Di-verted to that Use.—In carrying a patient upon these ar-ticles, the manoeuvres and commands prescribed for thehand-litter should be employed. This class may be di- vided into two groups, according to the attitude of thepatient. 1. The patient, sitting, may be carried upon a board,a rifle, a carbine, a cane, a broomstick, a chair, or othersimilar articles. 2. The patient, recumbent, may be carried on a litter. Fig. 4052.—Hammock Litter. extemporized from a broad board, a door, a shutter, acot, and other articles of that kind. C. Methods by Three or More Bearers.—It isnot infrequently the case that the paraphernalia of litter-bearing are deficient, while there is an abundance of menfor bearing the disabled. It is, moreover, not infrequentlythe case that patients are so injured that, in the absenceof regularly constructed litters, or the impracticability ofextemporizing them on account of the lack of time orother reasons, the services of three or more bearers arenecessary in order to carry them comfortably to any dis-tance. If the distance over which the patient has to beborne is considerable, it is also frequently desirable, inorder to prevent fatigue, in the absence of a litter, to divide the weight of the patientamong several bearers. I. By Three Bearers.—In case of a wound ofthe lower extremity, thepatient may be carriedby two bearers upon atwo-, thr
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