Ambulance organization, equipment, and transport / by G.J.H. Evatt.

  • Evatt, G. J. H.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Ambulance organization, equipment, and transport / by G.J.H. Evatt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CONTENTS. Preface CHAPTER I. Introductory CHAPTER II. WAR AMBULANCE ARRANGEMENTS. THE AMBULANCE ARRANGEMENTS OF AN ARMY IN THE FIELD. Difference between ancient and modern war—The work of Larrey and Percy in improving Ambulance arrangements—The Medical arrangements of an English Army Corps—The Bat- talion Help—The Bearer Company—The Field Hospital— The Line of Communications—The Base Hospital—The Hospital Ships—The Medical Staff of the Army—The Militia Service—The Volunteer Service—Defects of an English War Hospital CHAPTER III. VOLUNTEER WAR AID. THE KNIGHTLY ORDERS AND THE RED CROSS SOCIETIES. The Knightly Orders and their work—The United States Sanitary Commission—The foundation of the Red Cross Movement— The Geneva Convention—The good and the weak points of the movement—Little help given to the English Army by Red Cross Societies—The work that might be done by the English Red Cross Society—The Johannritter Order of Germany—The Deutsche Ritter Order—The Austrian Maltese Order—The Italian Branch of the Knights of