See also:

• PIERRE

PIERRE See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH See also:

• PIERRE JOSEPH DESAULT (1744-1795)

DESAULT (1744-1795)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French anatomist and surgeon, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MAGNY, CLAUDE DRIGON, MARQUIS DE (1797-1879)

Magny-Vernois (Haute See also:

• SAONE

Saone) on the 6th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1744 . He was destined for the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, but his own inclination was towards the study of See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine; and, after learning something from the See also:

• BARBER (from Lat. barba, beard)

barber-surgeon of his native See also:

• VILLAGE

village, he was settled as an apprentice in the military See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital of See also:

• BELFORT
• BELFORT, TERRITOIRE
• BELFORT, TERRITORY OF

Belfort, where he acquired some knowledge of See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

anatomy and military See also:

• SURGERY
• SURGERY (Fr. chirurgie, from Gr. Xetpoupyfa, i.e. hand-work)

surgery . Going to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris when about twenty years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, he opened a school of anatomy in the See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter of 1766, the success of which excited the See also:

• JEALOUSY (adapted from Fr. jalousie, formed from jaloux, jealous, Low Lat. zelosus, Gr. j'i os, ardour, zeal, from the root seen in '&u', to boil, ferment; cf. " yeast ")

jealousy of the established teachers and professors, who endeavoured to make him give up his lectures . In 1776 he was admitted a member of the See also:

• CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a body, corpus, corporis)

corporation of surgeons; and in 1782 he was appointed surgeon-See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major to the hospital De la Charite . Within a few years he was recognized as one of the leading surgeons of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . The clinical school of surgery which he instituted at the Hotel Dieu attracted See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers of students, not only from every See also:

• PART

part of France but also from other countries; and he frequently had an See also:

• AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience of about 600 . He introduced many improvements into the practice of surgery, as well as into the construction of various surgical See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments . In 1791 he established a See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal de chirurgerie, edited by his pupils, which was a See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of the most interesting cases that had occurred in his clinical school, with the remarks which he had made upon them in the course of his lectures . But in the midst of his labours he became See also:

• OBNOXIOUS (Lat. obnoxiosus, from ob, over, against, and noxa, harm)

obnoxious to some of the revolutionists, and he was, on some frivolous See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge, denounced to the popular sections . After being twice examined, he was seized on the 28th of May 1793, while delivering a lecture, carried away from his See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre, and committed to See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison in the Luxembourg . In three days, however, he was liberated, and permitted to resume his functions . He died in Paris on the 1st of See also:

• JUNE

June 1795, the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story that his See also:

• DEATH

death was caused by See also:

• POISON

poison being disproved by the See also:

• AUTOPSY (Gr. aisros, self, and i4'tc, sight, investigation)

autopsy carried out by his See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil, M .

F . X . See also:

• BICHAT, MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER (1771–1802)

Bichat . A See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension was settled on his widow by the See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic . Together with See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois Chopart (1743—1795) he published Q . Traite See also:

• DES

des maladies chirurgicales (1779), and Bichat published a See also:

• DIGEST

digest of his surgical doctrines in CEuvres chirurgicales de See also:

• DESAULT, PIERRE JOSEPH (1744-1795)

Desault (1998—1799) .