Pierre Bouchet

Pierre Bouchet (6 January 1752 – 6 January 1794) was a French physician born in Lyon.

Pierre Bouchet
Born(1752-01-06)6 January 1752
Lyon (France)
Died6 January 1794(1794-01-06) (aged 42)
Lyon (France)
CitizenshipFrance
Known forfirst in France to modify then use a knotted-string snare device to ligate and remove uterus and vagina polyps
ChildrenClaude-Antoine Bouchet (fr)
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, Surgery
InstitutionsLyon Hôtel-Dieu
Academic advisorsPierre-Joseph Desault

Biography

He was trained in medicine in Paris as Pierre-Joseph Desault's pupil then came home in Lyon Hôtel-Dieu where he became Head Surgeon.[1]

He was the first in France to modify then use a knotted-string snare device to ligate and remove uterus and vagina polyps.[2]

He also practiced internal necrosis surgery and tibia drilling.

His son, Claude-Antoine Bouchet, was the first, in France, to ligate external iliac artery to cure groin aneurysm.[3]

Pierre Bouchet was always kind and good-hearted, so that his fellow citizens held him in the highest regard and esteem.[2] He suffered a stroke and died under arrest[3] on 1794 physically and psychologically exhausted by the Revolutionary armies siege of Lyon after the Revolt of the city against the National Convention.

References

  1. Castellan, Paul-François (1839). Notice sur le Docteur Bouchet, ancien chirurgien en chef de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon (in French). imprimerie de L. Boitel. p. 2.
  2. "Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biographie médicale. Tome 2" (pdf) (in French). Paris: Panckoucke. 1820–1825. pp. 461–462. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  3. Louis-Auguste Rougier (1839). Eloge historique de Claude-Antoine Bouchet, ancien chirurgien-major de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon: lu à la Société de médecine de Lyon, le 30 décembre 1839, par... Rougier. Impr. Louis Perrin. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
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