L'Ambulance du Docteur Alexis Carrel 1914-1919. by [CARREL, Alexis (1873-1944)] Georgette MOTTIER - 1977

Lausanne:: Editions La Source, 1977., 1977. Small 8vo. 170, [6] pp. Numerous illustrations. Printed wrappers. Very good. Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. / Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), on vacation in France, was mobilized on August 1, 1914 and worked at the drawing of the wounded arriving at the Lyon train station, then at the Hotel-Dieu of this city where he was confronted with the dreaded problem of the old infected wound, generator of so many ineffective amputations and deaths. See: Reggiani, A. H., Alexis Carrel . . . Surgery, Science, and Man, the Unknown. (2002).