Proceedings of Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. . ambulance can be made somewhat on the typeof the model of 1881, low set, roomy, of much lighter weight, andembracing the smaller improvements of the new pattern, which willapproach very nearly the ideal ambulance. ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY SURGEONS. 73 THE TRAVOIS-A NEW SANITARY APPLIANCE IN THEFIRST LINE OF BATTLE-FIELD ASSISTANCE. By Major John Van K. Hoff,Surgeon U. S Army. History is silent as to the origin of the travois; but it is not diffi-cult to imagine that it is the most ancient of vehic
Proceedings of Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. . ambulance can be made somewhat on the typeof the model of 1881, low set, roomy, of much lighter weight, andembracing the smaller improvements of the new pattern, which willapproach very nearly the ideal ambulance. ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY SURGEONS. 73 THE TRAVOIS-A NEW SANITARY APPLIANCE IN THEFIRST LINE OF BATTLE-FIELD ASSISTANCE. By Major John Van K. Hoff,Surgeon U. S Army. History is silent as to the origin of the travois; but it is not diffi-cult to imagine that it is the most ancient of vehicles intended to bedrawn by animals; its very form would indicate this. The origin of•the name is equally obscure ; but it is probable that the French trap-pers of early days christened this primitive means of transport, as theygave name to many another thing which they found among ouraborigines. The lodge-poles with which the red men pitch their habitationsserve to form the vehicles upon which their belongings are carried,when they Fold their tents, like the ArabsAnd as silently steal Dakota Indian Travois. The plains Indians use, for lodge-poles, straight saplings ofthoroughly seasoned pine or ash wood, which they trim down untilthey measure about 30 feet long, by 2^ inches at the butt, and 1£inches at the top. In making the travois several of these lodge-polesare lashed together at their large ends with rawhides, and then are 74 FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OK THE fastened at their lashed ends to a pack-saddle, in such manner thatan equal number of poles trail backward on either side of the pony,the small ends resting upon the ground. The frame of the couch is made of ash, is somewhat ellipticalin shape, and the bed is a network of rawhide lashed to the frame,strand by strand. Its dimensions are about 3 feet by 4 feet. Thecouch is laid lengthwise across the poles, and lashed thereto so thatits upper side is about 1 foot from the ponys tail A blanket,lashed to the lower sid
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