ambulance
| Vehicle used to transport the injured to hospital, found in civilian life and in warfare. Most ambulance crews are trained in emergency first aid. The first large-scale organized use of ambulances was during the Crimean War 1853–56. |
| The Geneva Convention (1864) secured neutral protection for patients and ambulance staff in time of war. |
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