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a cheap and elastic Frame . 
persons? or such 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 the towns where 
they might enjoy the benefit of medical 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 applica- 
tion 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 7^ 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, about 140 miles, in three days. 
In both these instances, and a great many more, the 
bed and frame were suspended to the carriage of a post- 
chaise, 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 and debility. 
In all these removals, the patients have borne testimo- 
ny to their enduring no additional pain or inconvenience 
from the motion of the machine ; all of them, even in the 
most severe cases, declaring, that they were alike insen- 
sible 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. 
