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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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Baron Larrey, Napoleon's principal military surgeon, revolutionized battlefield medicine by treating wounds on the field and inventing transport carts, saving thousands of lives across campaigns up to Waterloo, where he was wounded and mistaken for Napoleon. Post-war, the French king reduced his power but allowed him to continue as surgeon-in-chief of the royal guard's hospital, costing him 50,000 francs annually.
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It is principally to Baron Larrey that military surgery owes its present state of perfection: before his time the wounded were never thought of until the battle was over, the surgeons wisely keeping their stations, at least a league in the rear of the army; -- The humanity of Napoleon, aided by the Baron suggested the mode of dressing their wounds on the field of battle, when the cases required it: he also invented cars for transporting them the moment they fell, by which he saved many thousand valuable lives, which may easily be conceived, when it was known that he was Napoleon's principal military surgeon in all his campaigns, from the commencement of his career to the battle of Waterloo --when the Baron's usual intrepidity and zeal was nearly fatal to him, for he received a severe wound in the head, fell, and remained two days on the field of battle, and when discovered was taken for Napoleon, being very like him, when he again ran the risk of his life from ignoble vengeance --On his return to Paris, the king stripped him of all his power, but it would have had the appearance of injustice, to entirely lay aside the best military surgeon of the world--therefore his most christian majesty has most graciously pleased to suffer him to continue his functions as surgeon in chief of the military hospital of the royal guard. His loss, besides his practice, from the paternal regulations of the most christian majesty, is 50,000 francs per annum.
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Paris
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From The Commencement Of His Career To The Battle Of Waterloo
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saved many thousand valuable lives; received a severe wound in the head; loss of 50,000 francs per annum
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It is principally to Baron Larrey that military surgery owes its present state of perfection: before his time the wounded were never thought of until the battle was over, the surgeons wisely keeping their stations, at least a league in the rear of the army; -- The humanity of Napoleon, aided by the Baron suggested the mode of dressing their wounds on the field of battle, when the cases required it: he also invented cars for transporting them the moment they fell, by which he saved many thousand valuable lives, which may easily be conceived, when it was known that he was Napoleon's principal military surgeon in all his campaigns, from the commencement of his career to the battle of Waterloo --when the Baron's usual intrepidity and zeal was nearly fatal to him, for he received a severe wound in the head, fell, and remained two days on the field of battle, and when discovered was taken for Napoleon, being very like him, when he again ran the risk of his life from ignoble vengeance --On his return to Paris, the king stripped him of all his power, but it would have had the appearance of injustice, to entirely lay aside the best military surgeon of the world--therefore his most christian majesty has most graciously pleased to suffer him to continue his functions as surgeon in chief of the military hospital of the royal guard.