On this day in history, March 28, 1866, first US ambulance service rolls through Cincinnati
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The U.S. welcomed the first civilian ambulance care in Cincinnati, Ohio, on this day in history, March 28, 1866. It was inspired by medical advances during the Civil War.
It was citing the 1978 book, "The Ambulance: The Story of Emergency Transportation of Sick and Wounded Through the Centuries," by Katherine Traver Barkley. "Jonathan Letterman, the medical director of the Army of the Potomac, created a highly organized system of ambulances." — National Museum of Civil War Medicine Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
The book claims Commercial Hospital of Cincinnati at 12th Street and Central Avenue holds this claim to medical fame.
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