. A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions . litters perched on bars, and areeven more costly and complicated than the the advantage they possess of being readily trans-formed into camp-bedsteads must not be other special complicated litters, they cannot beadopted in large armies, where immense numbers ofwounded are to be cared for; but may be advanta-geously employed in time of peace, or under specialcircumstances. Figure 24 gives an enlarg
. A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions . litters perched on bars, and areeven more costly and complicated than the the advantage they possess of being readily trans-formed into camp-bedsteads must not be other special complicated litters, they cannot beadopted in large armies, where immense numbers ofwounded are to be cared for; but may be advanta-geously employed in time of peace, or under specialcircumstances. Figure 24 gives an enlarged view ofone of the corners of the Baden swinging litter, andenables the transformation of the litter into a camp-bedstead, by reversing the lower framework, to bemore readily understood. With the extraordinaryfacilities afforded at the Paris Exposition of 1867,experiments were also instituted with the spring-stretchers of M. Grauvin, medecin-major in theFrench army. This stretcher is designed to be carried either by hand, oron wheels, or on the floors of transports of any description. Very favor-able reports were made of the experiments conducted on the railway. Fig. 24.— Transverse sec-tion of one corner of theBaden sioinging litter. [After GUKLT.]
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