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 lectures and demon" strations and opened military medical schools in France, Spain and Germany. It lS probably due to Larrey's constant work, both in teaching and organizing, that the French Army surgeons were the best in the world at this time. After the fall of Napoleon Larrey was stripped of his honours, wealth and position and barely escaped with his life. He was asked by Alexander to go to Russia to organize the medical department 01 his army, and Don Pedro did his utmost to induce him to emigrate to Brazil. However*