Excerpt from Reminiscences of Three Campaigns
Military Surgery is a subject which has always had a fascination for me, but I believe that, more than anything else, it was the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 which specially directed my attention to this branch of my profession and brought me into close relation with some of the most stirring events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
It is well known that although in the times of Napoleon I. something was done by his chief surgeon, Baron Larrey, in introducing into the French army services the employment of "ambulances volantes" which were first used in 1792 at the battle of Konigstern, while his contemporary Baron Percy simultaneously (in 1798) initiated the use of special stretcher-bearers or "brancardicrs" for the wounded in the field, yet it may be justly said that military surgery, as a special department of medicine, had its real origin in the sixties and seventies of the last century. There are doubtless many yet living among us who can remember the impression made upon the world by the Swiss doctor Henri Dunant and his coadjutor Moynier, also a Swiss, appealing to civilisation for mercy to the wounded and protection to those employed in alleviating their sufferings. That which he had witnessed in the hospitals after the battle of Solferino, in 1859, first induced Dunant to take the initiative in agitating for ameliorating the condition of those overtaken by disease or wounds in warfare. It was to him that the world is indebted for the attention of the nations of Europe having been directed towards practical measures of compassion for these unfortunates, and nowhere did he receive more zealous support than in Great Britain.
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