However, a military surgeon intervened at the last moment, warning them that he was not the emperor but a fellow physician who indeed bore a physical resemblance: Dominique-Jean Larrey, famous for ...

He was Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, born 250 years ago today. Larrey, who fought in most of Napoleon’s campaigns, believed in rapid treatment of the wounded, and invented the first ambulance.

This cry has been heard on battlefields for centuries, beginning with Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey's establishment of battlefield medical treatment during the Napoleonic wars. Larrey, Napoleon ...

Dominique Jean Larrey lived quite a life ... and advancing battlefield medical care by inventing the "flying ambulance": a wagon that held all the medical necessities and staff to help soldiers on the ...

ON OBSERVING that most injured soldiers died before receiving medical attention, Dominique-Jean Larrey, a young surgeon ... whisking is done by helicopter or ambulance and the treatment on arrival ...

At some point after he became chief surgeon in Napoleon’s army, Dominique Jean Larrey started walking across blood-soaked battlefields to pick out those among the wounded who could still be ...

At some point after he became chief surgeon in Napoleon’s army, Dominique Jean Larrey started walking across blood-soaked battlefields to pick out those among the wounded who could still be ...

At some point after he became chief surgeon in Napoleon’s army, Dominique Jean Larrey started walking across blood-soaked battlefields to pick out those among the wounded who could still be ...