title: To study the healing art.
abstract: The present paper traces the careers of two men: Dominique, Baron Larrey, and Sir James McGrigor, and examines their contributions to military medicine in the Napoleonic period.
authors.affiliation: Gordon Craig Library, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Victoria.
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Beasley
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000266:history; D001154:Art / Q000266:history; D005602:France; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008602:Mental Healing / Q000266:history; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history*; D012606:Scotland; D014195:Travel / Q000266:history