BIB Directions for constructing 
The lower frame is then 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 too 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 successfully applied ; and 
is in common application in several of the garrisons of 
Great Britain, as affording the easiest means of transport- 
ing sick or wounded soldiers, from garrison or quarters, 
to the hospital. 
Since the time of its being adopted by the army, it has 
likewise been brought into the service of a great many of 
the public hospitals, not only for the purpose of convey- 
ing 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 
operation room to the wards, without subjecting them to 
the necessity of being dressed, or even removed from the 
beds. 
Having successfully answered these purposes, it has 
of late been used, when fixed upon a cart, waggon, or 
upon the carriage of a postchaise, for removing wounded 
