LARREY, DOMINIQUE JEAN, Baron, a celebrated French surgeon, was born in 1766 At Bandeau, near Bagneres-de-Bigorre, studied medicine with his uncle, Alexis Larrey, And attended the two hospitals, the Hotel-de-Dieu and the Hotel-des-Invalides, having previously served for a short time both in the army and navy. In 1792 he was appointed second physician to the Hotel-des-Invalides, and in 1793 accompanied the French army to Germany and Spain, making at this time the important invention of the ambulance lolante, for the convenience of transporting the wounded. Napoleon summoned him to Italy in 1797, after lie had been for a short time a professor in the medico-surgical school At Val-de-Grace; and he accompanied the expedition to Egypt. In 1805 lie was placed At the head of the medico-surgical department in the French army, and was created a baron of the empire, receiving also a considerable pension. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Waterloo, and at the restoration lost his rank and pension; the latter, how ever, was restored in 1818; and he continued to fill important and honorable offices till 1836. when he retired from that of surgeon-general of the HOtel-des-Invalides. On May
15, 1812. he embarked for Algeria, having been appointed inspector of the military hos pitals there, and while on his return, after having concluded his labors, he died at Lyons July 24, 1842. Apart from the skill, talent, courage, and humanity shown in the course of his practice, Larrey has a high scientific reputation, and is the author of a number of very va.uable books on various subjects connected with his profession, most of which have been translated into other languages. Larrey's works have been considered by emi nen: authorities to be "the connecting link between the surgery of the last age and that of the present day."