PERCY PIERRE-FRANÇOIS: (1754-1825) French Doctor and Chief Surgeon of the Grande Armée during

PERCY PIERRE-FRANÇOIS: (1754-1825) French Doctor and Chief Surgeon of the Grande Armée during

PERCY PIERRE-FRANÇOIS: (1754-1825) French Doctor and Chief Surgeon of the Grande Armée during the Napoleonic wars. He invented a new kind of ambulance usable on battlefield. A good set of three documents, including an A.L.S., `Percy´, two pages, folio, , n.p., 10th July 1818, to Saucerotte, in French. Percy tells his correspondent that he is still waiting for his visit which he promised to his father and sends a request `..please make [a visit] to chevalier de Lormerie, who is staying under the Royal Palace arcades. This gentleman wishes very much to meet you and talk to you..´ further saying `..when you will see me going to university, something that happens daily, come to see me..´ Together with A.L., in the hand of Percy, one page, 4to, in French. Percy refers to the Asian progress in the medical field, stating in part `..They had the first kind of hospitals that were named Marastins. Rhazes was leading the Bagdad hospital, he explains having seen the biggest successes and also the most terrible errors…Most of the times doctors were Israelite, like Debou-Gazazi, Izaac..´, Also including an A.L.S., by Percy´s widow, one page, 8vo, Paris, 13th February 1828, to Vicount Morel de Vindé, in French. VG, 3 £250-350 Victor-Joseph Saucerotte (1773-1845) Student of medicine at the time of the present letter. Son of Nicolas Saucerotte (1741-1841) Surgeon of the King of Poland. Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865-925) also known as Razi or Rhazes. Iranian Scholar who contributed to achieve important progress in the fields of medicine, alchemy and philosophy. Charles-Gilbert Morel de Vindé (1759-1842) French literair and pair of France.