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as were afflicted with disease, and who were unable to support 

 the motion of a chaise or coach, from different parts of the 

 country to towns where they might enjoy the benefit of me- 

 dical advice. 



In this manner, the use of it, in Scotland, has become 

 of late very general, and, fortunately, very beneficial to 

 those who have travelled in it ; all of them concurring, that 

 they were insensible of any unpleasant motion during their 

 respective journeys. 



To enumerate the instances of its successful application 

 in this manner would fill a small volume ; but a few facts 

 will enable the public to appreciate its value. 



A person was brought in it, with a compound fracture in 

 the thigh bone, from the west Highlands to Edinburgh, a 

 distance of 74 miles, in two days. 



A gentleman, with an attack of gout both in his hands 

 and feet, was removed from Edinburgh to the north of 

 England, above I'JO miles, in three days. 



In both these instances, and a great many more, the bed 

 and frame were suspended to the carriage of a postchaise, 

 and, with a servant sitting in front, travelled post. 



Some hundreds of examples can be adduced of the re- 

 moval of patients by its means, when fixed on a cart or 

 waggon, and in many of these the patients were in a 

 state of the most severe bodily distress ard debility. 



In all these removals, the patients have borne testimony 

 to their enduring no additional pain or inconvenience from 

 \he motion of the machine ; all of them, even in the most 

 severe cases, declaring, " that they were alike insensible of 

 bodily fatigue, or of the least increase of pain, from the 

 mode of conveyance. 



The royal colleges of physicians and surgeons of this 

 place have bestowed upon it the most unlimited approba- 

 tion, both by letters addressed to the inventor, and in the 

 publications of several of their members. 



In conse(juence of these proofs of its successful effects, 

 and these encomiums from the learned and respectable bo- 

 dies who arc so well enabled to decide regarding its merits, 

 a number of applications have of late been addressed to the 

 T 2 inventor. 



