1. Robert Emile Sigismond Leon Proust was a French urologist and gynaecologist and the younger brother of the writer Marcel Proust.
19 Facts About Robert Proust
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Robert Proust published a landmark medical paper on perineal prostatectomy, "De la prostatectomie perineale totale", following which his colleagues nicknamed his prostate procedure a "proustatectomie".
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Amongst other accomplishments, Proust served as a military surgeon during the First World War where he devised a form of mobile operating theatre called the "auto-chir", which could be moved close to the front, and was promoted to Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1925.
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Robert Proust died 1935 and the Hopital Tenon in Paris honours him with the "Pavillon Robert Proust".
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Robert Proust was born in Paris on 24 May 1873 to Adrien Proust, an eminent physician in the field of public health who helped eliminate cholera from Europe, and his wife Jeanne Weil, a Jewish woman who was fifteen years younger than her husband.
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Robert Proust was educated with his brother Marcel, who was two years older than Robert, at the Lycee Condorcet.
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Robert Proust subsequently attended the University of Paris where his performance was considered "outstanding".
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When Robert Proust was seven, he saw Marcel's first asthma attack and it had a profound effect upon him.
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Marcel developed a close attachment to their mother, whereas Robert Proust followed in their father's footsteps in the medical tradition.
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Robert Proust was an active supporter of his brother's writing career, and following Marcel's early death, he edited and arranged the final three volumes of his brother's novel A la recherche du temps perdu for publication.
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Robert Proust started his internships in 1894 under the supervision of Felix Guyon, who oversaw the publication in 1900 of Robert Proust's landmark medical paper on perineal prostatectomy, "De la prostatectomie perineale totale".
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In 1904, Robert Proust had recommended vasectomy at the time of prostatectomy.
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Robert Proust studied male and female reproductive tracts, whilst he was Samuel Jean de Pozzi's assistant at Hopital Broca between 1904 and 1914.
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Robert Proust collaborated with Pozzi in his specialism of hermaphrodites and they published a number of articles on the subject together.
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Robert Proust was director of the Broca himself from 1932 to 1934.
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Robert Proust had a profound interest in the accomplishments of Marie Curie and added a section on "curietherapie" in the fifth edition of his book, when completing his writings on radiothiotherapy of cervical cancer.
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Robert Proust served at the front as a military surgeon during the First World War.
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Robert Proust devised a form of mobile operating theatre called the "auto-chir", which could be moved close to the front.
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Robert Proust was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1915 and promoted to Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1925.