Pyrotechnie chirurgicale-pratique; ou, L'art d'appliquer le feu en chirurgie Octavo: ii, xl, 311 pages with one folding plate. Complete and freshly rebound in cloth and leather. This appears to be the Paris edition of a book first published in 1794 in the provinces. Its subject is the cauterization by red-hot metal of war wounds. Pierre-François Percy (1754 – 1825) was a French doctor and surgeon He was surgeon-in-chief of Napoleon's Grande Armée during the Napoleonic campaigns in Germany and Poland, and present at the Battles of Jena and Friedland. During the wars of the French Revolution and Empire, he invented a new kind of ambulance usable on the battlefield known as a "wurst", as well as the cork-balls and the surgical quiver. He served on the main battlefields of the Empire and became chief surgeon of the Grande Armée, but had to leave the army after 1809 because of ocular problems. His replacement as chief surgeon of the Grande Armée was Nicolas Heurteloup (1750-1812). He resumed service in 1814 and his conduct earned him the esteem of the Allied armies. This is an important book by someone who knews the appalling conditions on the battlefield, described here and also in his 'Journal des Campagnes', which was published in 1904 by the Franc-comtois historian Émile Longin. Percy had to retire during the Restoration and died in Paris on 18 February 1825. Percy was a member of the Academy of Sciences, Academy of Medicine, Commander of the Legion of Honor and Baron of the Empire.