title: [Two unedited letters from Baron Louis Suetin: their significance in the biography of a surgeon (1816-1817)].
abstract: The author reveals and comments two letters written by the surgeon Louis Seutin and discovered in 1994. They were sent in February 181 6 and July 1817 to lieutenant Ferdinand Doignon, a native from Tournai. Circumstances which created Seutin's friendship for lieutenant Doignon in 1813, during the campaign of Saxony of the Great Army, are described. These two letters are different by their tone. Consideration is given to the periods and places in which they were written. Their significance in Seutin's biography is enlightened through explanatory comments.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Evrard
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D005602:France; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Deux lettres inédites du Baron Louis Seutin: leur signification dans la biographie du chirurgien (période 1816-1817).