A text-book of first aid and emergency treatment . y justifi-able for two bearers to carry the patient in tln-ough the nar-row hallway. The leading bearer, who walks backward,holds the i)atient beneath the armi)its while the secondsupports the legs, his hands clasped beneath the patientsknees. In the army, si)ecial hos])ital trains are fully ecpiipped forboth major and minor surgery. They have large side doorsfor the admission of patients. In case of a railway accidentwhere many patients are injured it is much better to sendfreight and baggage cars to bring back the wounded, thanthe ordinary p
A text-book of first aid and emergency treatment . y justifi-able for two bearers to carry the patient in tln-ough the nar-row hallway. The leading bearer, who walks backward,holds the i)atient beneath the armi)its while the secondsupports the legs, his hands clasped beneath the patientsknees. In the army, si)ecial hos])ital trains are fully ecpiipped forboth major and minor surgery. They have large side doorsfor the admission of patients. In case of a railway accidentwhere many patients are injured it is much better to sendfreight and baggage cars to bring back the wounded, thanthe ordinary passenger cars or Pullmans. In major emergencies it is sometimes necessary to im])ro-vise hospital cars. For this purpose the ordinary freight car THE AMBULANCE 273 serves better than either passenger coaches or Pulhnan stretchers are easily passed in through the side doorsand the patients placed on mattresses on the car special car fitting has been designed which is used inthe United States Army and permits the carrying of large. Fig. 153.—Showing the interior of a German hospital car. The cots aremovable and may be used as stretchers. (Copyright by Brown & Dawson,Stanford, Conn., from Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.) numbers of patients on the ordinary army litters. The lit-ters are carried in tiers of three, the ends being supportedby iron posts fitted snugly in the floor and roof of the cross-arms on these iron posts are suspended iron ringsin which the litter handles are placed. The fittings areingeniously made so as to fold and so that they may be18 274 TRAXSPORTATION onl;iri:;((l to fit freight cars varyinu; in luMi^lit. The riiii^slioltlinu- the httor handles are sus])cn(k(l by springs whichirivc a ctTtain amount of rcsihcnc\- to the htter.
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