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the Austro-Russian army annihilated. The military 

 stores captured enabled the French to follow the 

 enemy down the Danube, and enforce the capitulation 

 of Vienna. Larrey was able to get all the wounded 

 of Ulm into hospitals and private residences, so the 

 army was not incumbered on the eve of the great bat- 

 tle of Austerlitz, or of the " Three Emperors," Alex- 

 ander of Russia, Francis of Austria, and Napoleon of 

 France. The campaign was conducted in the winter, 

 hence there was much suffering from frost; but Sur- 

 geon Larrey was enabled to protect the wounded from 

 outdoor exposure. He utilized barns, sheds, stacks of 

 straw, and e very-thing that might add comfort to the 

 invalid. The ambulance corps rendered valuable as- 

 sistance. They conveyed thousands of wounded from 

 Austerlitz to the city of Brunn, where there were hos- 

 pitals, churches, warehouses, and other shelters for 

 thirty thousand w r ounded Russians, Austrians and 

 French. But the concentration of so many mangled 

 men developed a fatal fever, which spread to the citi- 

 zens, and created a panic among the inhabitants. This 

 was a trying and anxious time for the medical and 

 surgical corps. Gangrene attacked those who crowded 

 about hot stoves, and " camp fever," typhus was 

 most fatal where the sick were in unventilated quar- 

 ters. The contagion of Brunn was more deadly than 

 the Syrian plague, though attended with less dismay. 

 An armistice put an end to the campaign, but 

 another was instituted during the winter of the fol- 

 lowing year. This was called the " Campaign of Po- 

 land." The initiatory expedition covered the battles 

 of Jena. Eylau and Warsaw, and all were fought in 

 intensely cold weather. Larrey says : "The cold was 

 so intense that instruments frequently fell from the 



