Gurney - origin?
Robert M. Wilson
Max Buten wrote in message ...
>The cart for supine patients - who is it named after?
>American Heritage says maybe it's the name of some unknown person, from
>about 1939.
>Anyone know something more definite?
J. T. Gurney (USA) designed a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage in C. 1880s.
It may have been borrowed from it/him, though the time difference to its
recent use for a hospital carriage make it questionable.
Most sources simply say it is from the name "Gurney" or 'unknown'.
Max Buten
American Heritage says maybe it's the name of some unknown person, from
about 1939.
Anyone know something more definite?
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R J Valentine
] The cart for supine patients - who is it named after?
] American Heritage says maybe it's the name of some unknown person, from
] about 1939.
] Anyone know something more definite?
_The New Shorter Oxford_ (1993) says "App[arently]. f[rom]. J. T. Gurney
of Boston, Massachusetts, who patented a new cab design in 1883." The
first (Hist[orical].) definition refers to "A two-wheeled horse-drawn
[Gurney] cab with a rear door and lengthwise seating. Also, a similar
vehicle used as a police wagon or ambulance." The second definition
is the wheeled stretcher.
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Larry Phillips
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> The cart for supine patients - who is it named after?
Probably Gurney.
However, I wonder about your classification of the type of cart. I don't
often see nurses pouncing on and rolling over, non-supine patients on
gurneys.
Stephen Toogood
<lar...@home.com> writes
I suggest you read Michael Hurd's 'The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney' (o.u.p)
ISBN 0-19-281486-9
It's ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with trolleys, except that Gurney was off
his for the latter part of his life. A very moving account of a poet and
composer's descent into insanity following the trenches.
The songs I had are withered
Or vanished clean,
Yet there are bright tracks
Where I have been.
And there grow flowers
For others delight.
Think well, O singer,
Soon comes night.
It's poetry week on aue.
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Stephen Toogood