First American edition, two volumes. Baltimore: Joseph Cushing, 1814
434 + 415 pages. 5 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches
First American edition in English of these two volumes of medical memoirs by the French surgeon and military doctor Baron Dominique Jean Larrey (1766-1842). An important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, Larrey is often considered the first modern military surgeon. He traveled widely as the chief surgeon of Napoleon's army, and he wrote about the conditions particular to each region where he found himself.
These volumes cover campaigns in the Rhine, Corsica, Catalonia, Egypt, Syria; Boulogne, Ulm, and Auterlitz in Saxony; Prussia, Poland, Spain, and Austria.
The translator, Richard Wilmott Hall M.D., was Professor of Midwifery and of the Diseases of Women and Children in the University of Maryland.
First American Edition, from the Second French Edition. With notes by the translator.
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