. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. thenceto the side of the bedhe is to occupy inthe hospital, withoutchange of convey-ance from the timehe leaves his cot inthe ships hospital orsick-bay. I have proposed tomeet all these require-ments by the Ambu-lance Cot bearing my name, which was submitted, byorder of the Navy Department, to a board of officers,composed of Captain (now Commodore) Oscar C. Bad-ger, Medical Director (afterward Surgeon-General) F. , and Passed Assistant Surgeon T. D. Myer
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. thenceto the side of the bedhe is to occupy inthe hospital, withoutchange of convey-ance from the timehe leaves his cot inthe ships hospital orsick-bay. I have proposed tomeet all these require-ments by the Ambu-lance Cot bearing my name, which was submitted, byorder of the Navy Department, to a board of officers,composed of Captain (now Commodore) Oscar C. Bad-ger, Medical Director (afterward Surgeon-General) F. , and Passed Assistant Surgeon T. D. Myers,who, on July 5, 1877, reported as follows : We have carefully examined the Ambulance Cotsubmitted to us, and have to report that it seems to ac-complish all that was proposed by Medical InspectorGihon in planning it. It enables a man to be loweredendlong through a hatchway or from a top without fall- Fig. 4065.—Gihons Naval Ambulance Cot. 239 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. ing out, the band around the breast preventing him fromfalling forward, the bands under the thighs supporting. Fig. 4066.—Naval Ambulance Cot. Invalid secured for transportation. his weight. If the legs be injured, there are additionalbands to confine them. The cot also permits a man tobe swung over a ships side in aheavy sea-way, and landed in aboat without danger of fallingout. He is to remain in the cotin the boat, the elastic side-pieces making a comfortablespring-bed. On shore he canbe placed in any kind of wagon,the ends of the side-pieces being-placed on any sort of support,and the springing of these side-pieces will prevent jarring. Ifthere is no wagon about, two orfour men can take hold of theextremities of the side-piecesand walk away with him to hisbedside in a hospital. Whennot in use the stavesand stretchers canbe unshipped, placedinside the the whole rolledup compactly andplaced between thebeams overhead. The apparatus con-sists essenti
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