Gallery
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US Marines transport a non-ambulatory patient via litter, outside of Fallujah, Iraq in 2006
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Litter on wheels, made circa 1900
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Horse drawn litter in the Netherlands (*)
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Firefighters lowering a Stokes basket down a hill
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Patient transport sled managed by skiers
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A mountain rescue litter
(*) Note: The “litter” in the picture is not really a litter, designed to protect the patient and to be moved by horses, but a carriage, used in Hippotherapy; The patient, often multiple disabled, is positioned on a cloth over the back of the horses; the patient will feel all movements and warmth of the horses; this improves (amongst others) blood circulation and health in general.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)