The Ambulance Author:Katherine Traver Barkley The Story of Emergency Transportation of Sick and Wounded through the Centuries. One of the very few books ever published on this subject. Documents the history of emergency medical transportation from 900 A.D. to the 1970's. With over one hundred and fifty illustrations, the work begins in depth with the eighteenth-century medical services... more » initiated by Dominique-Jean Larrey, a surgeon in Napoleon's army, then details the evolution of the ambulance through peace and war up till the modern era.« less