TY  - JOUR
T1  - Dunant: The story of the red cross
Y1  - 1939/04/08
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1939.02800140117042
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1419
EP  - 1419
VL  - 112
IS  - 14
N2  - This book is the pathetic, not to say tragic, story of the Nobel peace prize winner Henri Dunant, who was the first to entertain the conception of an international society for the alleviation of the sufferings of wounded in battle and of prisoners. Dunant was an ordinary citizen of Geneva, somewhat better off than the average, if not actually wealthy, who was engaged in the banking business. He came into contact with war somewhat accidentally at the battle of Solferino, where the French and the Austrians met in 1859. Here he was plunged into the midst of the fighting and saw the miserable lack of accommodations for the wounded and the total absence of doctors, nurses and medical supplies. He plunged into the emergency and made heroic efforts to supply as much as possible of the need through his own labor. Needless to say his success was scarcely worth mentioning,
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.02800140117042
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800140117042
ER  -