Dominique-Jean, Baron Larrey (born July 8, 1766, Baudéan, France—died July 25/August 1, 1842, Lyon) was a French military surgeon in the service of Napoleon. He introduced field …

French surgeon Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey’s ambulance volante, or “flying ambulance,” was used to evacuate casualties from the battlefield during the Napoleonic wars. The years went …

Jan 15, 2024 · Napoleon’s favourite surgeon, Dominique Jean Larrey, tends to wounded during the French Campaign in Russia. Larrey revolutionized battlefield medicine, creating the first …

On July 8, 259 years ago, Dominique-Jean Larrey, the French military doctor who became Napoleon Bonaparte’s chief surgeon of the Grande Armée, was born in the small village of …

Oct 10, 2024 · The chief surgeon of La Flize recounts in his memoirs the horror of mutilations and operations during the Battle of Borodino in 1812: On that day of grim memory, how many cruel …

He spent the new few years in relative peace in Paris before being named Surgeon-in-Chief to the Grande Armée for the 1812 campaign against Russia. Accompanying the army, at the Battle …

Dec 1, 2013 · Considered as the most famous French military surgeon, Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766–1842), who joined all the campaigns of Napoleon, wrote his memoirs and several …

Many advances in the field of surgery have been attributed to him: he was one of the first to amputate at the hip-joint (1812); he pioneered the use of maggots to preven …

Most associated with the improvement of medical services during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era is the French surgeon Dominique-Jean Larrey. The young Larrey began his …

He went with Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt, stomached the horrendous slaughters of Aspern-Essling and Wagram, survived the retreat from Russia in 1812 and was wounded at Waterloo.