Talk:René-Nicolas Dufriche Desgenettes

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Opium poisoning - apocryphal?
I have heard the story about Napoleon demanding the poisoning of the sick and wounded at Saint Jean d’Acre but I am not convinced about it’s authenticity - Desgenettes wrote shortly after the campaign (in his Histoire Medicale de l’Armee d’Orient, written after Napoleon‘s death) that he has only suggested that some of the plague patients were on the point of death and shouldn’t be moved, and Larrey wrote (Triare, P., Napoleon et Larrey. Tours; Mame 1902) that the order was never given and that there was no opium available anyway. Would it be appropriate to add some opposing sources? Tuftedrose (talk) 18:15, 18 May 2022 (UTC)