. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. oved Ambulance Cot. 1, Ready for service;2, rolled up. proposed serving one or all these purposes, but they arelittle known outside the navy. In the passenger andmerchant services, in which no provision is made forthem, occasions requiring them occur so often, that anapparatus adaptable to every possible need is a desidera-tum. The method of carrying the injured or invalid uponthe hands of two strong men, crossed after the fashionof the ladys chair of childrens p
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. oved Ambulance Cot. 1, Ready for service;2, rolled up. proposed serving one or all these purposes, but they arelittle known outside the navy. In the passenger andmerchant services, in which no provision is made forthem, occasions requiring them occur so often, that anapparatus adaptable to every possible need is a desidera-tum. The method of carrying the injured or invalid uponthe hands of two strong men, crossed after the fashionof the ladys chair of childrens play, on which theperson sits with legs dangling, supporting himself by hisarms around the bearers necks, or, when unable to dothis, being held in place by other assistants, answerswhere [here is no confusion, when the decks are unob-structed and the wide quarter-deck ladder is in place, andwhen the inferior extremities are not severely injured orthe sufferer does not otherwise require especially tenderhandling or support. Under these latter circumstances the ordinary hos-pital cot has been for years the only means available on. Fig. 4064.—The Gorgas Improved Cot. board most naval vessels for purposes of transportation,and often, when most quickly needed, this could not begot ready. Even when one was required to be kept con-stantly rigged, it was not unusually occupied by somebed-ridden invalid, who could not be displaced, and, thenecessity arising for another, the carpenters mate or hisassistant had to be summoned to gather the several piecesof the clumsy frame from their place of stowage in somedistant corner of the hold, or perhaps under the ham-mocks in the nettings. When found, these would sel-dom fit together, and when fitted, more time was com- 238 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. sumed in the slow process of lacing a canvas sackingsix feet long around the wooden frame, and adjustingthe latter thus covered within the cot proper,
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