Thursday 24 October 2013

Ambulances. Part-One.

Rescue Carriage.

Ever since men have known the concept of anger, there have been wars and skirmishes. With battles also came rescue carts, waggon's, chariots, it was probably only the king or chieftain and his immediate family and or generals who were rescued to be sorted out by either the priests of shamans.

In British history this claim was attributed to Florence Nightingale who set up medical facilities during the Crimea campaign. The truth was that it was an Black freed American slave women who did mot of the real work. Medical carts were employed during the Crusades 1080-1190 and it was Islamic physicians who helped with the casualties. Which is kind of ironic, because they were the enemy. Yet out of it the Knights of Saint John did establish Guys hospital in London and many other similar institutions across Britain and Ireland.

In the U.S. it was the Christians communities in both the war of Independence and the Civil war who used everything that was available to rescue the wounded and the dying on both sides

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