Farmcarts to Fords: A History of the Military Ambulance, 1790-1925 (Medical Humanities Series) – John S. Haller Jr. Alleen Vandaag

This book is the first history of the techniques, systems, and technologies used to evacuate wounded from the battlefield. Historically, the word ambulance described those facilities that provided temporary assistance to the wounded, thus distinguishing them from stationary hospitals where military personnel received more permanent care. Americans and British, however, applied the term to the two-to four-wheeled transport conveyances that carried wounded from the battlefield to the war hospitals.
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