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BOOK: The Life and Times of Guillaume Dupuytren 1777- 1835

At the time of Dupuytren’s birth in 1777, France was still governed by an absolute monarch, Louis XVI. When Dupuytren died in 1835, he had lived through two revolutions (1789 and 1830), a republic, a ‘Directoire’, a consulate, an empire under Napoleon and another two royal restorations under Louis XVIII and Charles X.

Dupuytren was always closely invol"Times New Roman">The name Dupuytren has become immortal in medicine, not only in the contracture of the palm, which he described in extreme detail, but also in a specific fracture of the fibula. His name also survives in road names, in the ‘Musée Dupuytren’, the museum of pathological anatomy at the medical faculty in Paris, in the new university centre of Limoges, which is named after him and in an amphitheatre at the Parisian hospital Hôtel-Dieu. The anniversary of his birth and death are still commemorated in Pierre-Buffière where he was born and in Paris where he studied, worked, lived and died. A statue of him has been erected in the inner courtyard of the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris and a memorial has been built in his place of birth.

The Life and Times of Guillaume Dupuytren spans a distressing era of French history (1777-1835), in which the centre of medicine moved from Italy to France, with Paris at its core. The author, plastic surgeon Prof. Dr. Paul Wylock, tells an exciting and beautifully illustrated story which will appeal to anybody with a professional or general interest in medicine, history or both.

 

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Jean Goubau - (21/07/2010)