290 Directions for constnicilng 



The frame should then be placed over the bed, and the 

 ropes at the head of the bed suspended upon the iron hooks. 



Then the ropes at the feet should be hooked up. 



The frame, containing one or two sick men, can be easily 

 lifted by the four handles by four men, and carried to any 

 distance to a cart or bajrcacie-wa'r'ron. 



The lower frame is tlien fixed to the cart by ropes, and 

 the machine is ready to move. 



When the sick are taken from the baggage-cart, the 

 whole frame should be lifted at once, and carried to the 

 hospital. 



The bed should then be unhooked, first at the feet and 

 then at the head, and the frame taken away. 



Upon large English waggons, two or three of these 

 frames may be conveniently placed. 



If the carts of any district are loo small for the breadth of 

 the frame, it may be made narrower, so as to adapt it to 

 that conveyance. 



When the machine, which is delineated in the plate, 

 was first invented, it was solely intended for the use of the 

 army. 



To this purpose it has been succesnfully applied; and is 

 in common application in several of the garrisons of Great 

 Britain, as affording the easiest meansof transporting sick or 

 wounded soldiers, from garrison or quarters, to the hospital. 



Since the time of its being adopted hv the army, it has 

 likewise been brought into the service of a great many of 

 the public hospitals, not only for the purpose of conveying 

 maimed or bedridden patients from their houses to the 

 wards, but for removing such patients, as were under the 

 necessity of undergoing operations, from the wards to the 

 operation room, and returning them again from the opera- 

 tion room to the wards, without subjecting them to the ne- 

 cessity of being dressed, or even removed from the beds.. 



Having suecessfully answered these purposes, it has of late 

 been used, when fixed upon a cart, waggon, or upon the car- 

 riage of a postchaise, for removing wounded persons, or such 



as 



