Medical Service - Premier Empire - Notebook of the Elite Company

Marc Morillon and Benoit Lorenzini have combined their talents and research in this notebook dedicated to the Medical Service under the First Empire.

The fate of the members of the Grande Armée's medical service is rarely discussed. We have the opportunity to introduce one of these men who devoted his life to the well-being of his fellow citizens: Christophe Reverdit. Again from the pen of Benoit Lorenzini, and following his biography of Christophe Reverdit, we now discover an obscure yet highly practical object used by surgeons in the field: a surgical instrument case that once belonged to him.

Marc Morillon then presents how the many wounded of the First Empire's campaigns were treated. For despite the large number of articles and works devoted to the medical service of the Napoleonic armies, we often hold a rather romanticised and far-from-reality image of the war wounded and their care. So what did the soldiers suffer from, and how were they treated?

And how could one address the Medical Service under the First Empire without mentioning Dominique Larrey! Marc Morillon presents in this final part of our study the uniforms worn by this iconic figure.

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