Théodore Maunoir one of the founders of the Red Cross

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International Review of the Red Cross is pleased to bring to its readers' attention an article on Dr. Théodore Maunoir, one of the five founders of the Red Cross, about whom little is known and little has been written.The article is from the pen of Mr. Roger Durand, President of the Henry Dunant Society, Geneva, who published it recently in Gesnerus, the quarterly review of the Société suisse d'histoire de la médecine et des sciences naturelles (vol. 34, fasc. 1/2, pp. 139–155, Ed. Sauerländer, Aarau, 1977). It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author, of Gesnerus and of Editions Sauerländer, to whom we express our thanks.

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