Stretcher
The first stretcher, possibly of mat and frame, is in a manuscript from around 1380.[1] Simple stretchers were popular among armies during the mid-20th century.[2]
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A wounded knight carried on a stretcher in the Middle Ages, manuscript dating back to approximately 1380 AD. -
Example of a chair stretcher, “On the Transport of Sick and Wounded Troops”, 1868. -
A simple stretcher used by US Marines in a training environment in December 2003. -
U.S. Marines transport an unresponsive patient via stretcher, outside Fallujah, Iraq in 2006 -
Armed guards carrying wounded to the Senegal border, Guinea-Bissau, 1974. -
a paramedic uses a stretcher in 2001.
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