RT Journal
T1 SUrgery at a casualty clearing station.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD January 25
VO 72
IS 4
SP 301
OP 301
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610040067034
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610040067034
AB The great war has developed a new terminology. Probably few readers of The Journal have a clear idea exactly what a British casualty clearing station is. The military hospital has evidently followed the same line of development in the British army as in the American. Prior to the South African war, the British military hospital equipment consisted of the field hospital and the base hospital. The field hospital was a mobile unit attached directly to the division, going forward with the troops in the field, planned and equipped so as to be capable of quick erection and demolition, and of as rapid movement as the exigencies of the military situation might require. To it were brought the wounded from the regimental aid station and the ambulance dressing station, either on foot or in ambulance or by the litter squad of the ambulance company. The field hospital contains no cots, beds