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Farmcarts to Fords: a history of the military ambulance, 1790-1925
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John S Haller
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Southern Illinois University Press
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This book is the first history of the techniques, systems, and technologies used to evacuate wounded from the battlefield. Historically, the word ambulance described those facilities that provided temporary assistance to the wounded, thus distinguishing them from stationary hospitals where military personnel received more permanent care. Americans and British, however, applied the term to the two-to four-wheeled transport conveyances that carried wounded from the battlefield to the war hospitals. With the aid of fifty-four illustrations, John S. Haller traces the histories of both meanings of the word from the Napoleonic era through the Great War and its aftermath. He concentrates on the development of British and American evacuation procedures and technology with a focus on hand conveyances and wheeled vehicles. His intent is not to cover all aspects of medical evacuation but to accurately recount the common medical evacuation problems, incongruities, and controversies that existed for warring nations.

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title	:	Farmcarts to Fords : A History of the Military Ambulance, 1790-1925 Medical Humanities Series
author	:	Haller, John S.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0809318172
print isbn13	:	9780809318179
ebook isbn13	:	9780585031385
language	:	English
subject	Transport of sick and wounded--History, Transportation, Military--History, Ambulances--History, Ambulances--history, Military Medicine--history, Transportation of Patients--history.
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	UH500.H35 1992eb
ddc	:	355.3/45
subject	:	Transport of sick and wounded--History, Transportation, Military--History, Ambulances--History, Ambulances--history, Military Medicine--history, Transportation of Patients--history.

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Farmcarts to Fords

A History of the Military Ambulance, 17901925

John S. Haller, Jr.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Carbondale and Edwardsville

Page iv

Copyright 1992 by the Board of Trustees,
Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Designed by Duane E. Perkins
Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga

96 95 94 93 92

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Haller, John S.
Farmcarts to Fords: a history of the military ambulance, 17901925 / John S.
Haller, Jr.
p. cm. (Medical humanities series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Transport of sick and wounded History. 2. Transportation, Military
History. 3. Ambulances History. I. Title. II. Series.
[DNLM: 1. Ambulances history. 2. Military Medicine history.
3. Transportation of Patients history. 500 H185f]
UH500.H35 1992
355.3'45 dc20
DNLM/DLC
for Library of Congress

92-3772
ISBN 0-8093-1817-2

CIP

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of AmericanNational Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Page v

FOR
John, Kay, Nonie, and Lee

Page vi

No spectacle is more painful than that of the carriage of the wounded, the sick, and the dying in the midst of a campaign. It is the blackest page of war. The triumphs of the battlefield are all dimmed in looking at this inevitable sequel. It is needful to have seen it to comprehend it, for official dispatches and history tell but little of the reality.
Sir Henry Holland,
Recollections of Past Life, 1872

Page vii

Contents

Plates

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One/ Early History

1. Beginnings of a System

2. Early Ambulance Technology

Part Two/ Consolidation

3. A World in Transition

4. Old and New Thinking

Part Three/ The Great War

5. New Challenges

145

6. Trials of Evacuation

163

7. Lessons Learned

184

Notes

205

Selected Bibliography

235

Index

257

Page ix

Plates

Following page 110

1. Larrey's two-wheeled ambulance

2. Percy's surgical wagon

3. Percy's stretcher-bearers in marching order

4. Percy's stretcher fitted for carrying wounded men

5. Squire's organizational model for a division hospital

6. The common dandy and Bareilly dandy

7. A convoy of sick in camel kujjawas and a camel dhoolie

8. Mule cacolets or chairs

9. A freight car fitted with eight spring-bed stretchers

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