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See also:BARON See also:GUILLAUME See also:DUPUYTREN (1777-1835)
, See also:French anatomist and surgeon, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:October 1777 at See also:Pierre Buffiere (Haute See also:Vienne)
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He studied See also:medicine in See also:Paris at the newly established Ecole de Medecine, and was appointed by competition prosector when only eighteen years of See also:age
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,His See also:early studies were directed chiefly to morbid See also:anatomy
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In 1803 he was appointed assistant-surgeon at the Hotel-Dieu, and in 1811 See also:professor of operative See also:surgery in See also:succession to R
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B
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See also:Sabatier (1732-1811)
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In 1815 he was appointed to the See also:chair of clinicalsurgery, and became See also:head surgeon at the Hotel-Dieu
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See also:Dupuytren's See also:energy and See also:industry were alike remarkable
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He visited the Hotel-Dieu See also:morning and evening, performing at each See also:time several operations, lectured to vast throngs of students, gave See also:advice to his outdoor patients, and fulfilled the duties consequent upon one of the largest practices of See also:modern times
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By his indefatigable activity he amassed a See also:fortune of £300,000, the bulk of which he bequeathed to his daughter, with the See also:deduction of considerable sums for the endowment of the anatomical chair in the Ecole de Medecine, and the See also:establishment of a benevolent institution for distressed medical men
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The most important of Dupuytren's writings is his See also:Treatise on Artificial Anus, in which he applied the principles laid down by See also: He died in Paris on the 8th of See also:February 1835 . |
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