Seeing the Civil War

Tag: stretcher

Wikipedia says: A stretcher is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type (cot or litter) must be carried by two or more people.

An early stretcher, likely made of wicker over a frame, appears in a manuscript from c.1380. Simple stretchers were common with militaries right through the middle of the 20th century

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