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hands of surgical assistants who held them for me 

 during the operations. Fortunately I enjoyed an un- 

 usual vigor, doubtless produced by the great interest 

 which I felt for the safety of so many brave fellows. 

 The desire which we all felt to save the lives of the 

 wounded, enabled us to persevere in the discharge of 

 our difficult duties. Night often came on, and we bad 

 not been able to appease the cravings of hunger. In 

 the midst of such heart-rending scenes, how could we 

 attend to any thing but the performance of our sad 

 but humane tasks ? While I operated on one, I heard 

 the most pressing calls for similar service on every 

 side. After the operation a surprising calm, and a 

 kind of internal satisfaction, succeeded to the cries of 

 these soldiers, which they expressed by the most 

 lively acknowledgments." 



In this most arduous campaign hippohagy became 

 common and why not, if the necessity existed? Lar- 

 rey declares that a soup of horse flesh is both nutri- 

 tious and delicious. A dash of savory herbs makes it 

 a luxury. 



At the battle of Friedland, the Russians left six 

 thousand dead on the field, and twenty thousand 

 wounded to be cared for. These, in addition to the 

 large list of French rendered helpless, taxed the am- 

 bulance corps to their utmost. Surgical supplies were 

 scarce, so that any textile or fabric might be utilized 

 as a dressing. The treaty of Tilsit ended the cam- 

 paign. As a reward for distinguished service, Napo- 

 leon constituted Larrey a baron of the empire, and 

 bestowed an annual pension of 5,000 francs one 

 thousand dollars. This was in 1809. 



The most renowned of Napoleon's military oper- 

 ations was the " Campaign of Russia." This was in- 



