Guillaume Dupuytren
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Baron Guillaume Dupuytren. French surgeon (05/10/1777 - 08/02/1835).
Trained at the Collège de la Marche. By the age of 18 he was an anatomist and later became head surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu in Paris, serving several kings of France. Said to be an unorthodox man whose coarse comments could make women faint and hence ready for surgery.[1]
Described a number of conditions most famously Dupuytren's contracture, but also including Dupuytren's abscess (of the right iliac fossa, possibly related to appendicitis), Dupuytren's bandaging (a form of splint) and Dupuytren's phlegmon. He also wrote large bodies of literature on subjects such as fracture healing, congenital dislocation of the hip and surgical technique.
