The rich and beautiful Musée du Service de Santé des Armées (Military Health Service's Museum) is located in one of the monumental buildings of the Hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce in Paris (entrance from Place Alphonse Laveran). Initially, devised as an anatomical museum for the instruction of students at the military health school, it started to turn into a historical museum in the late 1880s, thanks to the then Director of Health Service, Georges Dujardin-Beaumetz, and to Hippolyte Larrey who bequeathed to the new museum an important collection of paintings and objects belonged to his father Dominique-Jean Larrey. Since World War One, the Museum acquired its current objective of illustrating the history of the military health service.
- Photos by Luca Borghi ti.supmacinu|ihgrob.l#| (July 2014), courtesy of the Hospital and Museum directions
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Related items:
- Albert Calmette's bust
- Alphonse Laveran's bust
- Alphonse Laveran's microscope and surgical instruments
- Ambroise Paré's bust
- François and Jacques Debat's medical collection
- Larrey's 'flying ambulance' (model)
- “La salle III à l’hôpital temporaire du Grand Palais (Paris, 1916)” by Paul Prévôt
- "Napoleon III visitant les blessés de Montebello" by Jules Rigo
- "Portrait du Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey" by Madeleine Benoist
- Prosthetic hand with interchangeable tools
- "Séance de vaccination antivariolique au Val-de-Grâce" by Alfred Touchemolin
- "Vaccination contre la typhoïde des jeunes reclutes" by Jean Larrivé
Bibliography
- Jacques de Saint-Julien, Jean-Jacques Ferrandis, Le Musée du Service de Santé des Armées au Val-de-Grâce, AXPRO, Paris 1998, pp. 168