1792 PERCY, Pierre François (1754 – 1825)
Manuel du chirurgien-d’armée.
One of Napoleon’s leading surgeons, Percy laid down his principles of the practice of military surgery in the same year he was appointed médecin consultant of the Army of the North. He devised his own instrument for b…
GMN 2158.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/848
1798 –1801 DESGENETTES, René-Nicolas Dufriche (1762 – 1837)
Opuscules du C[itoy]en Desgenettes, Médecin en chef de l'Armée d'Orient.
A collection of nine separately printed pamphlets issued by Napoleon's press in Cairo during his Egyptian campaign. See J.-F. Hutin, "La littérature médicale de la campagne d'Égypte", Histoire des sciences medicales, …
GMN 10577 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12770
1800 –1801 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842)
Mémoire sur l’ophtalmie régnante en Egypte.
The great military surgeon Larrey served during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt, where he was the first to observe the contagiousness of trachoma shortly after the successful invasion in 1798. The disease spread to E…
GMN 5837 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7120
1801 ASSALINI, Paolo (1759 – 1846)
Observations sur la maladies appelée peste, le flux dissentérique, l'ophtalmie d'Égypte, et les moyens de s'en préserver. Avec des notions sur la fièvre jaune de Cadix, et les projet et plan d'un hôpital, pour le traitement maladies épidémiques et contagieuses.
At the time of publication Assalini, a military surgeon with Napoleon, characterized himself on the title page as "Docteur en Médecine et Chirugien de 1re classe de la Garde des Consuls..." Digital facsimile from well…
GMN 12053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14261
1802 DESGENETTES, René-Nicolas Dufriche (1762 – 1837)
Histoire médicale de l'Armée d'Orient.
Napoleon appointed Desgenettes physician-in-chief for his expedition into Egypt. Desgenette's Histoire contained 19 separate chapters written by expedition personel. Digital facsimile of the 1802 from the Internet Arc…
GMN 8188 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10364
1802 FRANK, Louis (1761 – 1825)
Mémoire sur le commerce des nègres au Kaire et sur les maladies auxquelles ils sont sujets en y arrivant.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Also published in Mémoires sur l'Egypte: ... Publiés dans les années VII, VIII et IX, Volume 4, (An X) pp. 125-156.
GMN 8204 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10380
1803 WITTMAN, William
Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission.To which are annexed, observations on the plague, and on the diseases prevalent in Turkey, and a meteorological journal.
Wittman described the plague and other epidemics that afflicted both the Ottoman and British armies. In the Appendix he provided medical suggestions for treatment, together with a history of the plague. Digital facsim…
GMN 7367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9539
1803 GILBERT, Nicolas-Pierre (1751 – 1814)
Histoire médicale de l'Armée Française, a Saint-Domingue, en l'an dix; ou mémoire sur la fièvre jaune, avec un apperçu de la topographie médicale de cette colonie.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9657 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11844
1803 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842)
Rélation historique et chirurgicale de I’expedition de l'Armée d’Orient, en Egypte et en Syrie.
Larrey's history of his experiences with Napoleon and Napoleon's armies during the Egypt campaign. Includes a reprint of Larrey's treatise on trachoma, which was first published at Napoleon's press in Cairo. Digital f…
GMN 12942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15189
1803 BALME, Claude (1766 – 1850)
Observations et réflexions sur le scorbut, d'après celui qui a régné parmi les troupes françaises formant la garnison d'Alexandrie (en Egypte), pendant le Blocus et le Siége de cette ville, en l'an IX (1801), par les Armées combinées des Turcs et des Anglais.
The author was a military surgeon on Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. (32pp.)
GMN 13611 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15891
1806 VINCENT, DE MARCIAC, J.
Dissertation sur la fièvre-jaune qui a régné épidémiquement à Saint-Domingue, et qui a fait tant de ravages dans l'Armée expéditionnaire, en l'an X et en l'an XI, et sur les causes qui l'ont rendue si funeste.
Describes the yellow fever epidemic that swept through French troops on the island of Saint Domingue (Haiti) in 1802. In the midst of the slave uprising that led to the island’s independence, Napoleon sent an expediti…
GMN 13161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15420
1808 GILBERT, Nicolas-Pierre (1751 – 1814)
Tableau historique des maladies internes de mauvais caractère qui ont affligé la grande armée dans la campagne de Prusse et de Pologne, et notamment de celles qui ont été observées dans les hôpitaux militaires et les villes de Thorn, Bromberg, Fordon et Culm, dans l'hiver de 1806 à 1807, le printems et l'été de 1807, suivi de réflexions sur les divers modes de traitement de ces maladies adoptés par les médecins français et allemands.
Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.
GMN 13355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15626
1810 APPERT, Nicolas (1742 – 1841)
L’Art de conserver, pendant plusieurs années, toutes les substances animales et végétales….
The first workable process for canning foods. In 1795 Appert began developing the process under Napoleon’s auspices as a way to maintain food on military expeditions. For strategic reasons he was not allowed to publis…
GMN 2467.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3037
1810 PERCY, Pierre François (1754 – 1825)
Pyrotechnie chirurgicale-pratique, ou l'art d'appliquer le feu en chirurgie.
GMN 13885 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16175
1812 –1817 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842)
Mémoires de chirurgie militaire, et campagnes. (Vol. 5 entitled Relation médicale de campagnes et voyages.) 5 vols.
Larrey was the greatest military surgeon in history. Of him Napoleon said: “C’est l’homme le plus vertueux que j’ai connu”. He was present at all Napoleon’s great battles and one of the few who stood by him on his abd…
GMN 2160 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/888
1812 ASSALINI, Paolo (1759 – 1846)
Manuale di chirurgia del cavaliere.
Assalini served as a military surgeon with the Napoleonic armies in Egypt, Spain, Germany, and Russia, taking part in 60 battles and 400 combats. He was wounded three times, and was eventually appointed First Surgeon …
GMN 12052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14260
1812 FRANK, Louis (1761 – 1825)
Collection d'opuscules de médecine pratique, avec un mémoire sur le commerce des nègres au Kaire.
Frank was with Napoleon in Egypt; this volume contains numerous reports on aspects of medicine during that campaign. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12196 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14406
1815 GUTHRIE, George James (1785 – 1856)
On gun-shot wounds of the extremities, requiring the different operations of amputation, with their after treatment.
Guthrie was the leading British military surgeon during the first half of the 19th century. He served in the Napoleonic Wars; his book is one of the most important in the history of the subject.
GMN 2161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/898
1815 MACGRIGOR, Sir James (1771 – 1858)
Sketch of the medical history of the British Armies in the Peninsula of Spain and Portugal, during the late campaigns.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13001
1816 GUTHRIE, George James (1785 – 1856)
Case of a wound of the peroneal artery successfully treated by a ligature.
On July 2, 1815, Guthrie successfully ligated the peroneal artery of a German soldier wounded at the Battle of Waterloo.
GMN 2937 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4969
1816 BURNETT, William Sir (1779 – 1861)
A practical account of the Mediterranean fever, as it appeared in the ships and hospitals of His Majesty's fleet on that station: With cases and dissections. To which are added facts and observations, illustrative of the causes, symptoms and treatment comprehending the history of the fever in the fleet, during the years 1810, 1811, 1813, and of the Gibraltar and Carthagena fevers.
"Burnett in 1816 described an epidemic of a short term fever occurring among the Naval Forces engaged in the Siege of Malta in 1799, and this fever was almost certainly phlebotomus" (Coulter, The Royal Naval Medical S…
GMN 11143 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13340
1817 MORICHEAU-BEAUPRÉ, Pierre-Jean (1778 – 1857)
Des effets et des propriétés du froid, avec un aperçu historique et médical sur la campagne de Russie.
Relative to the suffering of Napoleon's soldiers during the bitter cold of Russian winters, includes methodology of resucitation of victims of freezing. Digital facsimile of thesis issue of the 1817 edition from the I…
GMN 11154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13351
1818 HENNEN, John (1779 – 1828)
Observations on some important points in the practice of military surgery.
“A valuable surgical record of the Napoleonic period” (Garrison).
GMN 2162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/992
1820 GUTHRIE, George James (1785 – 1856)
A treatise on gun-shot wounds. 2nd. ed.
Successful amputation at the hip-joint, after the battle of Waterloo, 7 July, 1815.
GMN 4445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6350
1825 ANTOMMARCHI, Francesco (1789 – 1838)
The last days of the Emperor Napoleon by Doctor F. Antommarchi, his physician. 2 vols.
An account of Napoleon's final illness and the medical care that Napoleon received while emprisoned on the island of Saint Helena, by his physician. English and French language versions of this work were published in …
GMN 11508 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13707
1829 –1836 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842)
Clinique chirurgicale, exercée particulièrement dans les camps et les hôpitaux militaires depuis 1792 jusqu’en 1829. 5 vols. plus atlas to vols. 1-3, and atlas to vol. 5.
Larrey’s most comprehensive surgical treatise, and the only one of his works that is extensively illustrated. Many of the plates concern surgical pathology.
GMN 5589.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7048
1830 GUTHRIE, George James (1785 – 1856)
On the diseases and injuries of arteries, with the operations required for their cure.
"Guthrie's experiences during the Peinsular War enabled him to make considerable improvements in practical surgery. These included introducing the practice of ligaturing both ends of a divided artery.... Guthrie made …
GMN 11604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13804
1901 GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Étienne (1772 – 1844); HAMY, Ernest Théodore Jules (1842 – 1908)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Lettres écrites d'Égypte à Cuvier, Jussieu, Lacépède, Monge, Desgenettes, Redouté le Jeune, Norry, etc., aux professeurs du muséum et à sa famille. Receuillies et publiées avec un préface et des notes par le Dr. E.-T. Hamy.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 12210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14420
1902 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842); TRIAIRE, Paul (1842 – 1912)
Dominique Larrey et les compagnes de la révolution et de l'empire 1768-1842. Étude historique aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles d'après documents inédits. Journal et agendas de compagnes. Notes manuscrites. Correspondance officielle et privée.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link
GMN 12943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15190
1902 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842); TRIAIRE, Paul (1842 – 1912)
Napoléon et Larrey: Récits inédits de la revolution et de l’empire.
Some copies of this book include 8 of the 16 plates hand-colored; an unusual manual process for a book produced at this date.
GMN 12944 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15191
1972 BUCQUET, Marie-Christine
Index alphabétique et biographique du personnel médical pendant l’expédition d’Orient (Égypte-Syrie 1798-1801). Thèse de médecine.
Only a very small number of copies of this thesis appear to have been issued.
GMN 12055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14263
1992 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – )
Battlefield medicine: A history of the military ambulance from the Napoleonic wars through World War I.
GMN 10128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12317
1993 MEULENAERE, Philippe de
Bibliographie raisonnée des témoignages oculaires imprimes de l'Expédition d'Égypte (1798-1801).
A bibliography of publications, including those on medical subjects, issued from the Imprimerie national in Cairo established by Napoleon during the campaign, and also publications issued from Paris documenting inform…
GMN 10578 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12771
2011 HUTIN, Jean-François
La Campagne d’Egypte: Une affaire de santé.
GMN 12056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14264
2012 RIAUD, Xavier
Napoleon Ier et ses médecins.
GMN 11067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13263
2012 HUTIN, Jean-François
La littérature médicale de la compagne d'Égypte.
Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.
GMN 12054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14262
2013 SCOTLAND, Thomas; HEYS, Stephen
Wars, pestilence and the surgeon's blade: The evolution of British Military medicine and surgery during the nineteenth century.
GMN 12568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14807
