. 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 . onable on account of the sur-geon being unable to manipulate thewounds when they require dressing,without great inconvenience to space between the beds is too con-tracted, and causes much complaintfrom the wounded. There is too muchmotion in the beds, and altogether thecar is not a good one. Dr. Barnumstates that during his connection withthe railway hospital service, he super-vised the transportation of 20,472pat
. 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 . onable on account of the sur-geon being unable to manipulate thewounds when they require dressing,without great inconvenience to space between the beds is too con-tracted, and causes much complaintfrom the wounded. There is too muchmotion in the beds, and altogether thecar is not a good one. Dr. Barnumstates that during his connection withthe railway hospital service, he super-vised the transportation of 20,472patients, and lost but one; who, des-pite the advice of his surgeons, im-plored that he might be taken to diein the bosom of his family.* The cars thus arranged, and othersin which litters were suspended byindia-rubber rings, from pegs insertedin upright posts, as in the Easternhospital trains, were alike known atthe West, under the designation of theHarris car. Dr. F. L. Town, U. S. A., in a report to Assistant SurgeonGreneral Wood, refers to them as follows: Other ways of securing the bedshave been tried. The Harris car is in use, with beds arranged in three tiers,. Fig. 7.— Transverse section of a passengercar fitted out hy Acting Assistant Surgeon Barnum, and known as the Harris Car. * Evans (T. W.) Loc. cit. p. 135. Medical Director Cooper doubts this remarkable immunityfrom deaths in transit on the hospital trains directed by Dr. Barnum; while testifying to theindefatigable zeal and efHciency of the latter during his protracted service. Acting AssistantSurgeon J. P. Barnum, remarks Dr. Town, had charge of the first hospital train built atNashville. He studiously labored to improve and systematize its working, and devised manyexpedients looking to the comfort of the patients, in days when the theory of hospital trainswas not so well understood as now. AND WOUNDED ON EAIL EOADS. 15 each bed resting on stretchers, suspended by four rubber rings, between up-rights. Each r
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