1. Guillaume Dupuytren, Baron Dupuytren was a French anatomist and military surgeon.
11 Facts About Guillaume Dupuytren
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Guillaume Dupuytren was born in the town of Pierre-Buffiere in the present-day department of Haute-Vienne.
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Guillaume Dupuytren studied medicine at the newly established Ecole de Medecine in Paris and was appointed prosector, by competition, when only eighteen years of age.
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Guillaume Dupuytren visited the Hotel-Dieu morning and evening, each time performing several operations, lectured to vast throngs of students, gave advice to his outpatients and fulfilled the duties consequent upon one of the largest practices of modern times.
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The most important of Guillaume Dupuytren's writings is his Treatise on Accidental Anus, in which he applied the principles laid down by John Hunter.
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Guillaume Dupuytren was one of the first surgeons to drain a brain abscess successfully using trepanation, in which a hole is cut in the skull, and he used the method to treat seizures.
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Guillaume Dupuytren claimed credit for originally describing melanoma and claimed Laennec stole the idea from his lectures.
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Guillaume Dupuytren reported a case of breast cancer spontaneous remission in which, after the patient refused surgery, the tumour becoming enlarged, rupturing and becoming infected, it began to shrink and disappeared after a few weeks.
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Guillaume Dupuytren died in Paris and there with his bequest established the Musee Dupuytren.
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Guillaume Dupuytren was a brilliant teacher, an astute diagnostician and a gifted surgeon.
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Guillaume Dupuytren was described by such colourful epithets as 'The Brigand of Hotel-Dieu' by Jacques Lisfranc and 'First among surgeons, least among men' by Pierre-Francois Percy.