AMBULANCE

a moving hospital following an army in the field, and treating the wounded and sick until they can be removed back to more permanent establishments. c The term is also commonly applied to wagons for the veyance of sick and wounded. Military a’s were introduced to a certain extent by Napoleon I., but those according to modern ideas were instituted in the American Civil War, and have proved of the greatest value in every € subsequent war. In war, according to the| U.S. organization, the wounded collected by regimental bearers at firing line and carried to the collecting station, whence they are taken to the| - dre ing station by bearers of the Field Army Medical Corps, and then if neces-| sary to the field hospital. Operations are carried out both at the dre ing station (if urgent) and at the field hospital. The Red Cro Society and other charitable ¢ societies are oy a ociated ¢ with the military authorities in modern warfare.