Dominique Jean Larrey practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Dominique Jean Larrey as French surgeon in Napoleon's army and an important innovator in battlefield medicine (1766-1842).
Dominique Jean Larrey was born at Beaudéan in 1766. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Brest School of Naval Medicine.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
The recorded fields of work are surgery.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Commander of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Dominique Jean Larrey died in 1842, aged 76. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Fields: surgery
