Visiting certificate of the Army of the East on behalf of citizen BERGER, Corporal of the 46th demi-brigade, amputated of a leg at Aboukir, "made on 17 prairial An 9". Signatures including that of Larrey. A.B.E. Under glass. Biography : LARREY Dominique, Baron, (1766-1842). Chief surgeon of the Grande Armée, followed Napoleon in all his campaigns until Waterloo. Teacher at the Val de Grâce. Nicknamed "the soldier's Providence", he perfected a method of amputation known as circular flap amputation.