Medical report on Georges Couthon’s injuries (10 Thermidor, Year II)Couthon has been brought,
Medical report on Georges Couthon’s injuries (10 Thermidor, Year II)Couthon has been brought, at 5 o’clock in the morning, to the hospice d'humanité; he had, above the swelling on the left side of his forehead, a contused and oblique wound with the breadth of an inch, penetrating until the skull and without denudation; his pulse was weak, he has been put to bed in the salle des Opérations n° 15 and was bandaged; at the time of his arrival, he appeared to be unconscious, but he regained consciousness afterwards and said that his wound was the result of a fall.10 Thermidor. [Illegible signature.]Source: Sur la blessure de Couthon dans la nuit du 9 thermidor (Soboul), in: AHRF, n° 120, p. 367. / Archives nationales F7 4656. -- source link
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