Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1919 — Airplane Surgery. [ARTICLE]

Airplane Surgery.

Great Interest has been aroused in Paris by the trial flight of a new airplane, invented by the engineer Nemirovsky and Dr. Tilmont. The new machine, which is called the “aerochlr,” is designed to place promptly at the service of men wounded in warfare, or persons injured in serious accidents, all the resources of medical science, and if necessary to carry them back to the hospital. Everything required for surgical and X-ray work is provided on board the airplane, including an operating table, and even an ingeniously constructed collapsible tent which can be erected on the scene of an accident within two or three minutes. Two models of the "aerochlr” have been designed, one capable of carrying four injured persons in addition to the necessary apparatus, and the other much larger, capable of carrying a medical and surgical staff of ten persons, and bringing back, if necessary, as many as twelve