Field Surgery is one of the oldest branches of medicine. The development of field surgery was influenced not only by the progress of medicine, but also by military tactics and by new weapons.
There is a more than 200-year old tradition in the training and education of military medical personnel in our country. This is comparable with other leading European countries. Our tradition is closely connected with Austrian history because the Czechs lived until 1918 under the Habsburg Monarchy.
In 1779 Emperor Joseph II charged his adviser and personal physician Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla (1728-1800) with over- Seeing the whole military medical Service....

Keywords: Field Surgery