Dominique Jean Larrey, French Military #1

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Dominique Jean Larrey, French Military #1

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Dominique Jean Larrey (July 8, 1766 - July 25, 1842) was a French surgeon in Napoleon's Grande Armée from 1797 to 1815. Larrey was an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage. He initiated the modern method of army surgery, field hospitals and the system of army ambulance corps, effectively creating a forerunner of the modern MASH units. After seeing the speed with which the carriages of the French flying artillery maneuvered across the battlefields, Larrey adapted them as ambulance volantes (Flying ambulances) for rapid transport of the wounded and manned them with trained crews. Larrey's writings are still regarded as valuable sources of surgical and medical knowledge and have been translated into all modern languages. He died in 1842 at the age of 76. He was buried at Père-Lachaise, but his remains were transferred to Les Invalides and re-interred near Napoleon's tomb in December 1992. This image has been colorized.

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