Larrey, Dominique Jean

Born July 8, 1766, in Baudéan, Hautes-Pyrénées; died Aug. 1, 1842, in Lyon. French surgeon; one of the founders of military field surgery.

Larrey received his medical education in Toulouse. While participating in all the campaigns of Napoleon I, he carried out a complete reorganization of the methods of evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield and of the system used to treat the wounded. He was the first to organize (1793) field hospitals (ambulances); he proposed and practiced the earlyamputation of extremities, which was subsequently replaced by the more merciful method of N. I. Pirogov. He widely employedtrephination of the skull and analyzed the pathology of craniocerebral wounds; he developed surgical methods to deal with wounds of the thorax sustained in combat. He received the prize of the Medical Academy in 1820 and of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1829.

WORKS

Mémoires de chirurgie militaire et campagnes, vols. 1–4. Paris, 1812–17.

REFERENCE

Kassirskii, I. A. Zh. D. Larrei i skoraia pomoshch’ na wine. Moscow-Leningrad, 1939.

单词	larrey, dominique jean
释义	Larrey, Dominique Jean Larrey, Dominique Jean Born July 8, 1766, in Baudéan, Hautes-Pyrénées; died Aug. 1, 1842, in Lyon. French surgeon; one of the founders of military field surgery. Larrey received his medical education in Toulouse. While participating in all the campaigns of Napoleon I, he carried out a complete reorganization of the methods of evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield and of the system used to treat the wounded. He was the first to organize (1793) field hospitals (ambulances); he proposed and practiced the earlyamputation of extremities, which was subsequently replaced by the more merciful method of N. I. Pirogov. He widely employedtrephination of the skull and analyzed the pathology of craniocerebral wounds; he developed surgical methods to deal with wounds of the thorax sustained in combat. He received the prize of the Medical Academy in 1820 and of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1829. WORKS Mémoires de chirurgie militaire et campagnes, vols. 1–4. Paris, 1812–17. REFERENCE Kassirskii, I. A. Zh. D. Larrei i skoraia pomoshch’ na wine. Moscow-Leningrad, 1939.
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