Military Hand Litter

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Title (Dublin Core)
Military Hand Litter
Subject (Dublin Core)
en
en
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
New Ways of Using the Military Hand Litter. It Can Be Made a Valuable Help to Surgery
Caption 1: Tying the foot of the injured side with the left front litter sling. The first step toward immobilization
Caption 2: Major H. R. Allen, M.R. C, who has much improved the army litter
Caption 3: By straps and slings the patient is held immovably, even though the litter be turned over completely
Caption 4: This shows how complete mobilization is achieved, by means of slings, when all extremities of patient are broken
Caption 5: Litter with the patient on its turned to horizontal position. Second step toward mobilization
Caption 6: Immobilization is maintained even though the the litter be carby the handles of one side only
Caption 7: The litter may even be turned on end with the patient's head down with out disturbing fractures
Caption 8: In a case of emergency one man can carry the litter with the immobilized patient on his back without risk or danger
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core)
World War I
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1918-05
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
654-655
Rights (Dublin Core)
Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core)
Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core)
Filippo Valle
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)