The doctors of Britain’s Napoleonic army played a crucial role in the war against France. Wellington was fully aware of this and was the first British general to praise his doctors in dispatches. However; despite their importance; Wellington’s doctors receive little attention in most accounts of the wars. In this groundbreaking study; many rare contemporary Napoleonic memoirs and letters have been consulted to give a unique and vivid picture of the army doctor and the sick and wounded soldiers in his care. Dr. Martin Howard addresses the education of army doctors; their reasons for joining the army; their role on the battlefield; sick transport and hospitals; surgery; the treatment of disease; and the life of a doctor on campaign. Some were clumsy "sawbones;" but many were well-educated men who grappled heroically with the destructive effects of Napoleonic warfare and the overwhelming impact of disease.
2009-06-15 #File Name: 1858185920208 pages
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