This man established history’s first professional military medical corps.
- Augustus Caesar
- Charlemagne
- Emperor Napoleon
- William of Orange
Augustus Caesar. After 14 years of civil war, the first Roman emperor formally established a medical service for his new professional army. Our word “medic” comes from the “milites medici” of the Roman legions.
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