A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987.
- Wellcome Historical Medical Library
- Date:
- 1987
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Credit: A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Military Medicine 13„ Dominique Jean, Baron Larrey [1766-1842]. Memoires de chirurgie mil- itaire, et campagnes. 4 vols. Paris: J. Smith. 1812-17. Larrey was chief surgeon to Napoleon and his memoirs cover the various cam- paigns of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He organised the rapid pro- vision of aid to the injured and introduced 'flying ambulances' for the removal of casualties from the battlefield. Shown here (from vol. I) are the panniers devised for the transport of the wounded by camel on Napoleon's campaign in Egypt and Syria in 1799. Plastic Surgery 14. Joseph Constantine Carpue [1764-1846]. An account of two successful operations for restoring a lost nose. London: Longman. 1816. The first modern European use of the technique of rhinoplasty, the restoration of a lost nose by grafting skin from another part of the body, in this case the forehead. The technique was practised in India in very early times. In 16th century Italy it was successfully performed by Tagliacozzi but then dropped out of use until in the late 18th century interest was revived by surgeons who had seen the operation in India. The patient in the case shown here was an Army officer who had lost much of his nose from the use of mercury for a liver complaint contracted in Egypt.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20456852_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
