A doctor attends a sick patient (who has the head of a railway engine); representing an industrial dispute regarding railway transport. Pen drawing by C.H. Phelp, 1919.

Three bearers placing patient on stretcher / W.D. & H.O. Wills.

Une ambulance turque, en dedans de la porte de Silistrie.

A skirmish on the railway line in Manchuria : a Russian hospital train collecting the wounded (from a sketch by a Russian artist-correspondent).

Ambulance des 4e et 6e divisions : d'après M. Durand-Brager / J. Gaildrau.

Spanish soldiers returning from the fighting line : the above picture shows wounded Spanish soldiers being conveyed to the hospital during the fighting now taking place at Melilla between the Spanish troops and the Moorish tribesmen.

A treatise on the transport of sick and wounded troops / by T. Longmore.

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The ambivalence of air

How I cured my fear of vomiting

A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine

Aphasia and drawing elephants

A report to the Surgeon General on the transport of sick and wounded by pack animals / by George A. Otis.

The different methods of lifting and carrying the sick and injured / by G.H. Darwin.

On some forms of extemporaneous conveyances for sick and wounded in peace and war : read before the General Assembly of Members of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, June 24th, 1878 / by J.H. Porter.

St. John Ambulance Association : Invalid Transport Corps, for the conveyance of sick and injured patients, infectious cases excepted : Head office: St. John's Gate. Clerkenwell, London, E.C. : received from ... the sum of ... 189.

Report on the fitness for use in the British service of a wheeled ambulance transport conveyance moved by hand labour (Neuss'sche zweiräderige Bahre), the employment of which is stated to have been attended with special advantages during the recent war between Germany and Denmark in Schleswig-Holstein : together with a history of the class of conveyances to which it belongs, so far as regards their connexion with the objects of ambulance transport / by T. Longmore.

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The ambivalence of air

How I cured my fear of vomiting

A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine

Aphasia and drawing elephants

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A report to the Surgeon General on the transport of sick and wounded by pack animals / by George A. Otis.

The different methods of lifting and carrying the sick and injured / by G.H. Darwin.

On some forms of extemporaneous conveyances for sick and wounded in peace and war : read before the General Assembly of Members of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, June 24th, 1878 / by J.H. Porter.

St. John Ambulance Association : Invalid Transport Corps, for the conveyance of sick and injured patients, infectious cases excepted : Head office: St. John's Gate. Clerkenwell, London, E.C. : received from ... the sum of ... 189.

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Stories

The ambivalence of air

How I cured my fear of vomiting

A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine

Aphasia and drawing elephants

Images

Catalogue

A report to the Surgeon General on the transport of sick and wounded by pack animals / by George A. Otis.

The different methods of lifting and carrying the sick and injured / by G.H. Darwin.

On some forms of extemporaneous conveyances for sick and wounded in peace and war : read before the General Assembly of Members of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, June 24th, 1878 / by J.H. Porter.

St. John Ambulance Association : Invalid Transport Corps, for the conveyance of sick and injured patients, infectious cases excepted : Head office: St. John's Gate. Clerkenwell, London, E.C. : received from ... the sum of ... 189.