Proceedings of Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. . Invalid secured for transportation. narrow straps, attached to the upper edge of this chest-band, pass,one in front of each shoulder, and being also fastened by cords to theopposite sides of the cot frame, assist in keeping the chest-band inplace. Two canvas femoral-bands, seven inches wide, sewed diag-onally to the cot bottom, receive and envelope each thigh, and arelikewise made fast to the cot frame bv terminal cords. These femoral-bands sustain the principal part of the weight of the body whe
Proceedings of Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. . Invalid secured for transportation. narrow straps, attached to the upper edge of this chest-band, pass,one in front of each shoulder, and being also fastened by cords to theopposite sides of the cot frame, assist in keeping the chest-band inplace. Two canvas femoral-bands, seven inches wide, sewed diag-onally to the cot bottom, receive and envelope each thigh, and arelikewise made fast to the cot frame bv terminal cords. These femoral-bands sustain the principal part of the weight of the body when thehead of the cot is elevated toward the perpendicular. Two narrowerbands, five inches wide, similarly sewed to .the cot, and attached to ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY SURGEONS. 99 the frame on each side, receive and confine the legs. A canvas-cov-ered hair pillow, loosely secured to the cot by cords passed throughevelet-holes, completes the apparatus. A sling with a cringle (an iron Lowering Ambulance Cotthrough hatchway. I. Swinging Ambulance Cot over ships side into boat. ring or thimble) placed in the middle, and one on each part near theupper stretcher, enables the cot to be lowered endwise or to be swung 100 FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE horizontally. The rounded extremities of the side staves may reston the thwarts of a boat or on blocks in a wagon, protecting thepatients body from pressure underneath, and forming a comfortablebed during his transfer to his destination; and they may be conven-
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