Title: Napoleon's doctors : the medical services of the Grande Armée /
Authors: Howard, Martin R.
Publisher: Spellmount,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Military Medicine history; Warfare; History, 19th Century; History, 18th Century; Military Medicine; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Medical care France.; Medicine, Military France History; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; Warfare; France; France.; France History, Military; France
Abstract: "Martin Howard has drawn on eyewitness accounts of soldiers and doctors, many translated for the first time from the original French, to give a[n] ... account of life and death in the Grande Arm?e"--Jacket.
Contents: Service de sant? -- Officier de sant? -- Percy, Larrey and Napoleon -- The battlefield 1792-1802 : birth of the ambulance -- The battlefield 1803-1809 : chirurgie de bataille -- The battlefield 1810-1815 : decline and fall -- Hospitals : les s?pulcres de la Grande Arm?e -- Surgery : the cutting edge -- Disease : the greatest enemy -- Campaigning : on the road with Napoleon.