Word: litters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion's wounded, he and his Chief Surgical Consultant, Harvard's dynamic Dr. Elliott Cutler, insisted on one basic principle: chemotherapy is no substitute for prompt surgery. So they recruited numbers of good surgeons, organized them for front-line work, trained legions of Medical Corpsmen, litter bearers, ambulance drivers, aircraft crews, in expediting the wounded...
...other battle areas, the invasion wounded are evacuated through a system of echelons, beginning with the single Medical Corpsman who follows each platoon (even if it travels by parachute), the litter bearers and the battalion aid station 1,000 yards from the front, and ending with convalescent hospitals in the U.S. In between come: 1) division clearing stations (usually about eight miles from the front), where the wounded are sorted according to their wounds; 2) mobile evacuation hospitals and field hospitals, 15 to 30 miles behind the lines; 3) station and convalescent hospitals in the rear. Ready for piecemeal hauling...
...current in the uterus of female rats, then tested the maze-running intelligence of their offspring against that of undosed rats with the same fathers. Result: when a mother rat got a dose of one milliampere from the cathode (negative pole), the odds were 383-to-1 that her litter would be superior in intelligence; a dose of two milliamperes had the opposite effect-the litter was inferior (61-to-1). Doses from the anode (positive pole) seemed to have less effect-two milliamperes produced somewhat inferior litters, one milliampere made no visible difference...
...Toffey still sat on a tin bucket talking over the radio. "All right, Benny, all right," he said to Lieut. Benny Reece, one of the advanced unit commanders. "We're doing what we can. Don't get excited. Got many casualties? We'll try to get litter bearers up as soon as possible." Several Spitfires chased two German fighter-bombers which had just raided the beach. "The bastards," snorted Toffey...
...afternoon last week the two sides arranged a 105-minute truce to remove the dead and wounded. Seventy-five U.S. medics recrossed the Rapido. As one of the wounded was lifted into a litter, he grinned weakly and said: "Look, I have maid service...