Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . ine is so sudden in its explosion that nothing can I States Government, but were never used with suc-be added to it from the slower burning of any of the cess. The drawing shows the British Crimean mule-other combustible ingredients, which are present in litter, also the very easy p(wilion of the wounded sol- LITTEB. 224 LITTEB. (iier when ready for transport, and the the litters and cacolets now issued in the FrenchArmy there are improvements providing for making. the sections of the litter rigid, so that it ca
Farrow's military encyclopedia : a dictionary of military knowledge . ine is so sudden in its explosion that nothing can I States Government, but were never used with suc-be added to it from the slower burning of any of the cess. The drawing shows the British Crimean mule-other combustible ingredients, which are present in litter, also the very easy p(wilion of the wounded sol- LITTEB. 224 LITTEB. (iier when ready for transport, and the the litters and cacolets now issued in the FrenchArmy there are improvements providing for making. the sections of the litter rigid, so that it can be usedtemporarily as a stretcher, for reduction in weight,and for greater compactness in packing. The mule-chairs and litters now issued by the British Koj-alCarriage Department are lighter and more conven- Amode of transporting sick and wounded by lit-ters that at one end rest on the ground, so that thepatient is drawn, but only partially sustained, by thepack-animals, is mentioned by early travel-ers among the North American indicates that in the war withPontiac, in 1763, the Colonists carriedtheir wounded by this contrivance, and,in a later work, refers to the ti-a-cee used bythe Oregon Indians ; and Lewis and Clarkresorted to it in 1805, to carry a woundedhunter of their party. Latterly, this meth-od of transport has received much atten-tion from medical officers, as well adaptedto the exigencies of frontier service. As-sistant Surgeon JIcGillycuddy, UnitedStates Army^ has made the accompanyingdrawing of such an app
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