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Title: Buffalo medical journal
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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o, offers the public a service which willbe higfhly appreciated in those cases of accident or sudden sick-ness, where transportation is desired without the publicity of thecommon ambulance. This he offers throug^h R. R. Bennettsinvalid coach, view of which is shown on the opposite pag-e. This coach was built for the purpose of conveying: incapaci-tated persons free from the annoyance incident to transit in anambulance. It is of the Berlin style, provided with an air mat-tress and pillow, the bed being: fully six feet in lengfth. On theinside it will accommodate two persons with the patient. Thewheels are supplied with rubber tire and the removal is accom-plished noiselessly and without the jar of an ordinary vehicle.After the patient is in the carriag^e, and the back closed, there isnothing: to indicate its character—to all eyes it is simply one of themany fine carriag^es that pass throug^h the streets. When a patientis to be broug-ht mto town, if the distance is too far to send the
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140 IKKSONAI. carriaj^e, one or two experienced men are sent with the bed,vvliicli is so arrang^ed that a litter may l)e formed of it, the patientremaining- on it aboard the train and is transferred thence to thecarriag-e without change. A special rate is made for coachesgoing- out of town. In cases where it is desired to move apatient from one room to another in the house, it can be donewithout distress to the individual, by having the removal madeby two careful men. This coach will not be used for contagiousdiseases. For rates and all particulars, application should bemade to Mr. Conover, at the above address. Mis telephonenumber is liryant 453. PERSONAL. Im (;i:.\K .Smiiii, of Detroit, accompanied by Mrs. Smith,has been si)ending a few weeks at his country home on theLakeshore, near Athol Springs. Dr. wSmith and v/ife have alsobeen occasional and interested visitors at the expositiongrounds. ))k. Lkwis S. McMuktrv and family, of Louisville, were visit-ors to JUiffalo and the exposi

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