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I created this site for my term project. I thought it would be kind of cool if I made an interactive
encyclopedia instead of some boring term paper. So this site was born. I also made it so people could google in
this topic and have a entire encyclopedia devoted to it. Hopefully soon you can type "Military Medicine during the Napoleonic
Wars" and get this site. (I submitted it to google. It should be in the site index about a week from now.)
I am also constantly updating this database. By the time this project is due, I will probably have only half of the
shown articles completed; but, I will finish them soon after and will continue to produce more articles and information
as long as I am still interested. (Which should be forever!)
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars that follow can be often seen as a bloody attempt at
democracy and a time that the whole stability of the continent was at stake. We may see reinactments of some of the
famous battles of the era and we may ponder at the thought, how horrible it would be to be wounded. My project
attempts to look at this issue faced by the armies of this time and will look at some attempts at making the removal of the
wounded more efficient. I will also look at the founder of modern surgery, Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey
| Amputation Chart |
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The Napoleonic Wars truly affect modern society in every way. They may seem remote but you can
see the affect it had still today in Europe. There where many advances in technology and most importantly, military
medicine. Modern-day surgery was born in the Napoleonic Wars. You can thank my hero, Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey for that! The modern ambulance was invented and many more things changed during this turbulent time in history.
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