Strecher
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Strecher
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Turn Him Sideways or Feet Up-He Cannot Fall Out
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Caption: The employment of this American Red Cross stretcher insures comfort, making a "spill" practically impossible.
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THE new stretcher perfected by the
American Red Cross in France is
described as superior to any means for
carrying the wounded yet brought into
use. Draw a mental picture of a soldier
found wounded in No Man's Land, his
bed of rocks and earth being situated so
that it is impossible for an ambulance to
approach nearer than a mile. There are
two reasons which deter the ambulance
drivers from attempting to pilot the
vehicle to the wounded man—the im-
passable condition of the ground and the
danger of the ambulance drawing fire
from the enemy.
So two stretcher bearers, car-
rying the newly-devised means
for bringing the wounded to
ambulances, make their perilous
journey across the battlefield,
accompanied by a surgeon. The
surgeon finds that the wounded
man’s legs have been fractured
by the fragments of a shell.
The patient is placed on the
stretcher, which has a frame
across which wires are laced
from side to side and end to end.
Straps of can-
vas and leath-
er are passed
about his
shoulders,
waist, legs and
feet, enabling
the bearers to
carry the pa-
tient without
fear of his slip-
ping to the
ground or
causing him
discomfort.
In this way he
is carried to |
the ambulance
and thence to
thehospital,lo-
cated at a safe
distance from
the continuous
pandemonium
of the front
line trenches.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Int. Film Serv. (photos)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1918-07
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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64
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 93, n. 1, 1918
