"Waterloo - John Hume" Topic
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| John Franklin | 13 Jun 2012 7:06 a.m. PST |
I have attached a letter written by the Duke of Wellington's Principle Surgeon, John Hume, in which he describes the death of Sir Alexander Gordon – the duke's aide-de-camp – at Waterloo. It demonstrates a little of the horror of warfare in the Napoleonic period: PDF link |
Frederick  | 13 Jun 2012 7:12 a.m. PST |
Battlefield medical care still is grim, but prior to antibiotics, anaesthetics, injectable analgesics and intravenous fluids it was grim in the extreme It was not for nothing that Napoleon called Baron Larrey "the finest man I have ever met" |
| John Franklin | 13 Jun 2012 7:29 a.m. PST |
Agreed. I'm fortunate enough to know Mick Crumplin, whose knowledge of the surgery during the period is excellent. I highly recommend his books on the subject. |
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looks at a multi-period building.