A project aiming to create airplanes that can serve as mobile hospitals
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A project aiming to create airplanes that can serve as mobile hospitals
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Title: Bringing the Hospital to the Wounded by Air
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Subtitle: Then, if a man is badly hurt, flying back with him in a stretcher or a bed
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CARRYING the wounded from the field to a hospital
by means of an airplane has proved so successful
that the plan of transporting the hospital to the
‘wounded has also been considered. Compact units of
‘moderate size have been designed to give more complete
first aid to the wounded.
The progress made so far gives rise to even more com-
plete plans and possibilities for the future. The units
will include X-ray sets. Minute compass needles of
special design will locate the bits of shell or exploding
boiler. A surgeon and radiologist, in addition to the pilot,
will man the machine in its flights to the scene of action.
Even if there should be no more war, the airplane
doctor of the future will have his work to perform, and a
‘wonderful work it will
be. Specialists will use
the airplane to answer
urgent calls coming
from long distances.
. Power for X-Ray
from Motor
The motor supplies
power to a small dy-
namo that generates
the necessary current
for the X-ray appa-
ratus. Lightness and
compactness are the
essential characteris-
tics, so that the ap-
paratus may be of a
portable nature.
When a machine
has arrived on the
scene, the injured man
may be taken into the X-ray
compartment and examined at
once without even removing
clothing. If it seems undesira-
ble to move the patient into the
machine, the instruments can
be removed and used outside
or in any near-by hospital or
other building. The machine,
meanwhile, may return for
additional supplies or more
surgeons.
The physician's radius of
action will be very greatly
increased. He will be able
to visit rural districts hither-
to inaccessible. The country
physician of general practice
will be enabled to call into
consultation the specialist
living twenty or forty miles
away.
The Doctor's Gig of
the Future
Carrying the mail has
already proved successful.
Why not the transporta-
tion of physicians? = The
medical field is broadening beyond
the dreams of a few years ago. Soon
the night air of the quiet country ham-
let will resound to the splutter of the
airplane doctor's motor as he traverses
the skies on his way to a patient.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-05
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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76
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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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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 5, 1919
