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Show rMtlltlMUlItIU!lll!UI!IInilllllIIIIIUll!nni!IlllllllIIIIl!HIIIIIJIII1!MIII 1 1 1 1 1 II HI in I III J II I II I II 111 I H I IIIIHnilH NUJItJll jlllllllirillllSllX- 4 I Health and Beauty 1 By f. iiiimmiiimiimmiil DB. SOPHIA BBUNSON II- t.wuu "'iiiiiiini uiiiii 1 shouting through a trumpet, "Ambulance "Am-bulance of Larry, make way." His patients always had the first right to military quarters. Larry helped foes as well as friends and this was finally the means of saving his own life. He was taken prisoner by the Prussians Prus-sians and condemned to death. The morning came for him to be shot and the guards went to his prison to accompany him to his The brave physician arose from his hard bed and dressed himself carefully. Quietly he walked to the place of execution and placed his back to the wall. The soldiers stood at attention and their rifles were leveled at his heart. His hands were bandaged behind his back and an attendant was bandaging band-aging his eyes. "Stop," rang out a voice. LARRY OF FRANCE "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands moun." The dark and bloody pages of history his-tory are illuminated only by the deeds of noble men and women who have given their lives to the alleviation of suffering. In and out of season these great souls have used their time, their talents and their means to help their fellows. Such a one was Jean Dominique Larry. This man was an accomplished accom-plished physician and surgeon. He had held several positions of prominence prom-inence and served both in the army ar-my and navy. He had also been a professor in two medical schools. In 1793 Larry accompanied the French army to Germany and to Spain. He was shocked to see the wretched condition of the wounded soldiers. There was no ambulance service whatever, nor first aid to the wounded. The wounded were left on the fields for many hours where they suffered untold agonies, ago-nies, and sometimes they were abandoned to die. It came from a German physician. physi-cian. At that moment he had recognized rec-ognized Larry. The matter was taken up with the highest authorities author-ities and he was instantly pardoned. pardon-ed. Larry had not only helped the common German soldiers, he had even saved the life of the son of the great General Blucher who afterward af-terward distinguished himself at Waterloo. Larry became the medico-surgical head of the French army and created a baron of the empire in 110. At Waterloo he was wounded wound-ed and taken prisoner. After his release he filled many important positions until his death in 1842 at Lyons. He was a writer of note and left several medical works. Larry's kind heart and keen brain devised an abulance service. He appointed three surgeons and an orderly who comprised the first team to go on ahead. They were well equipped with saddle bags for their horses. The bags contained instruments, medicines and dressings. dress-ings. Long and commodious baskets bas-kets were strapped to the horses. In these the wounded were transported trans-ported in comparative comfort. When Napoleon was carrying on a campaign in Syria, Larry had made use of dromedaries instead of horses. Each animal was mounted mount-ed by stretcher bearers and was harnessed with two baskets in which the sick and wounded were deposited. A herald rode ahead |