title: [Raymond François Denis Pontier (1788-1854). Tribulations of an army medical officer of noble lineage].
abstract: Born from a middle class family in the ancient province of Limousin Pontier was at first an officer of Military Health Service in 1809 and attended thesis in Montpellier in 1832. Prisoner in Russia he walked back to Uzerche and after 1830 he went again to military service during the military operations in Algeria. As Medical Officer in 1852 he took part in the eastern campaign as far as Varna where he found the hospital and died of cholera.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vayre
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history*; D014857:Warfare