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BARON GUILLAUME DUPUYTREN (1777-1835)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 691 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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) . 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 . ,His See also:early studies were directed chiefly to morbid See also:anatomy . 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 . B . See also:Sabatier (1732-1811) . In 1815 he was appointed to the See also:chair of clinicalsurgery, and became See also:head surgeon at the Hotel-Dieu . See also:Dupuytren's See also:energy and See also:industry were alike remarkable . 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 . 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 . 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:John See also:Hunter . In his operations he was remarkable for his skill and dexterity, and for his See also:great readiness of resource .

He died in Paris on the 8th of See also:

February 1835 .

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