Historical origins of the ambulance
Ambulance is a hospital which walks from the Latin ambulantia. In modern times, the ambulance was a French invention for moving wounded troops off the battlefield before the fighting was over. They were used by Napoleon in the 1790s. Shortly afterwards the word ambulance was also used in English. However, it was only in the Crimean War in the 1850s that the ambulance became more generally used in reference to a vehicle taking soldiers off the field of battle.
The ambulance goes mainstream
And then in the United States in New York and Cincinnati there were the first civilian ambulance services which took people into hospital in a carriage drawn by a horse in the 1860s. Almost immediately after the invention of the car, motor-based ambulances were introduced, the first of them in 1899.
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