Serving People for Three Hundred Years

even if history of military medicine already exists since Antiquity, the existence of an organizedmilitary medical service is devoted on January 17, 1708 when an edict of louis xIv creates the corps of medical offi cers of the armies. the power of a nation is often been measured by the number of its soldiers, but it is in time of war that a government makes the most important decisions for the health of its troops.