Hygienic and medical reports [electronic resource] . nd terminate on each side inrope handles, by which it may be carried, the patient resting onmattress, blankets, and pillow; but even when wooden stretchers are attached to eachclew, the apparatus^though it may be ad-vantageously usedinstead of the crossedhands, lacks the rigidity which can only be secured by a solidframe, and without which it cannot with safety or comfort tothe patient be used to swing him over a ships side into a boat^or to sui)port him during his passage on shore. Lieut. T. B. M. Mason, U. S. Navy,has also suggested a meth
Hygienic and medical reports [electronic resource] . nd terminate on each side inrope handles, by which it may be carried, the patient resting onmattress, blankets, and pillow; but even when wooden stretchers are attached to eachclew, the apparatus^though it may be ad-vantageously usedinstead of the crossedhands, lacks the rigidity which can only be secured by a solidframe, and without which it cannot with safety or comfort tothe patient be used to swing him over a ships side into a boat^or to sui)port him during his passage on shore. Lieut. T. B. M. Mason, U. S. Navy,has also suggested a method of utiliz-ing the common shi^is hammock forambulance service with landing are worked along bothleeches of thehammock, aswell as acrossits ends, i)er-mittin g it tobe laced andstretched upona wooden framemade of i)olesand stretchersof the properlength. While this, and the other apparatus referred to, will serveas useful exi)edients under many circumstances, when othermeans are lacking, it is important that provision should be.
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