Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766-1842): founder of military surgery and trauma care.

Larrey: surgeon to Napoleon's Imperial Guard

Dominique Jean Larrey (1766-1842) was the chief surgeon in Napoleon's Imperial Guard, a dedicated doctor and soldier, a loyal subject in awe of his nation at the most ambitious moment in its imperialistic history, a devoted husband and father, and to the end of his life-a sworn devotee of his emperor, Napoleon. If Larrey was not particularly distinguished for surgical invention or theoretical m...

Disabled veterans in history

Dominique Jean Larrey (1766-1842) was the chief surgeon in Napoleon's Imperial Guard, a dedicated doctor and soldier, a loyal subject in awe of his nation at the most ambitious moment in its imperialistic history, a devoted husband and father, and to the end of his life-a sworn devotee of his emperor, Napoleon. If Larrey was not particularly distinguished for surgical invention or theoretical m...

Trauma Care: Highly Demanding, Tremendous Benefits

Wellington's Surgeon General; Sir James McGrigor

RICHARD L. BLANCO, Wellington's Surgeon General; Sir Janes McGrigor, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1974, 8vo., pp. xiv, 235, illus., $9.75. During the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars vigorous attempts were made for the first time by both the French and the British to improve the soldier's health and welfare. No doubt this was a direct result of eighteenth-century enlightenme...

Domenique Jean Larrey, 1766-1842

at Toulouse and Paris he eventually joined the Army of the Rhine at Strasbourg aS surgeon. He later became chief surgeon to the Army in Italy and Napoleon gave him carte blanche in the organization of the medical division. He was with Napoleon at all his battles, and on his return to Paris from Egypt in 1801 honours were showered upon him. During the pauses between campaigns he gave courses of ...