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Henry Dunant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Bernard Gagnebin
Bernard Gagnebin*
Affiliation:
Doyen de la Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève.
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Extract

On July 9, 1859, readers of the Journal de Genève could read a heart-rending appeal, coming from Solferino, of which we quote the following passages:

For 3 days I have been treating the wounded from Solferino at Castiglione and have cared for more than one thousand men in misery. We have had 40,000 wounded, of which as many Allies as Austrians, involved in this terrible affair. There are not sufficient doctors, and I had to replace them as well as I could with the help of some local women and some prisoners who were in a fit condition.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 3 , Issue 27 , June 1963 , pp. 283 - 292
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1963

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Footnotes

1

Lecture given at the Aula of the University of Geneva on May 8, 1963, on the occasion of the inauguration of the monuthent erected in Geneva, in memory of Henry Dunant.