Pierre Bouchet
Pierre Bouchet (6 January 1752 – 6 January 1794) was a French physician born in Lyon.
Pierre Bouchet | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 January 1752 Lyon (France) |
| Died | 6 January 1794 (aged 42) Lyon (France) |
| Citizenship | France |
| Known for | first in France to modify then use a knotted-string snare device to ligate and remove uterus and vagina polyps |
| Children | Claude-Antoine Bouchet (fr) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medicine, Surgery |
| Institutions | Lyon Hôtel-Dieu |
| Academic advisors | Pierre-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
- 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.
- "Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biographie médicale. Tome 2" (pdf) (in French). Paris: Panckoucke. 1820–1825. pp. 461–462. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- 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.