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...late as the 1950s some doctors and first-aid manuals were recommending massage of a frostbitten limb with snow or ice, a treatment that traces back to Baron Larrey, Napoleon's chief surgeon on the Grand Army's disastrous retreat from Moscow during the bitter winter of 1812-13. Larrey believed such therapy reduced the likelihood of infection. But the experience of American doctors during the Korean War and more recently in Alaska has shown that the best treatment for frostbite is not more cold but rapid warming...
Director Henryk Tomaszewski has turned a traditional ballet scenario--a young princess looking over various suitors in order to choose a husband--into a grotesque, surrealistic fantasy. All Phylissa's wooers first enter gallantly, then run scared as her lust switches on. Little Napoleon, terror-struck, stabs himself in the groin. Max-Pipifax makes it further, to bed with the empress, only to be eaten by her highness--who proceeds to throw up on his flesh. The two are hardly men, nor are the rabble of other lewd cavaliers, truly Phylissa's menagerie of beasts...
...Napoleon, Will & Ariel Durant
...Napoleon Bonaparte revived medal mania in earnest when he founded the Legion of Honor in 1802. Initially the Legion was supposed to be a corps of distinguished persons rewarded for "services eminents" to France...
...Napoleon wanted a small elite group, but he was flooded with demands for the decoration -as were subsequent leaders of France." As a result, the number of those entitled to wear the Legion's red ribbon soared from...