[The Zurich lazarette in the wars of 1798/99. A manuscript by the hospital physician Johann Ludwig Meyer].

A manuscript, written about 1825, by the Zurich surgeon Johann Ludwig Meyer (1782-1852), is kept at the Institute and Museum of Medical History of the University of Zurich. The author describes his surgical observations in the makeshift military hospitals in Zurich during the French occupation of 1798 and the 2nd Coalition War in 1799. Together with Johannes Grimm, the then 16-year-old Meyer worked as an assistant to his father Konrad Meyer, the senior surgeon of Zurich, giving surgical treatment to wounded officers and soldiers in the French, Austrian and Russian military hospitals.