Pierre Bouchet
Pierre Bouchet | |
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Born | Lyon (France) |
6 January 1752
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Lyon (France) |
Citizenship | France |
Fields | Medicine, Surgery |
Institutions | Lyon Hôtel-Dieu |
Academic advisors | Pierre-Joseph Desault |
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) |
Pierre Bouchet (6 January 1752 – 6 January 1794) was a French physician born in Lyon.
Biography
He was trained in medicine in Paris as Pierre-Joseph Desault pupil then came home in Lyon Hôtel-Dieu where he became Head Surgeon.
He was the first in France to modify then use a knotted-string snare device to ligate and remove uterus and vagina polyps.[1]
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.[2]
Pierre Bouchet was always kind and good-hearted, so that his fellow citizens held him in the highest regard and esteem.[1] He suffered a stroke and died under arrest[2] on 1794 physically and psychologically exhausted by the Revolutionary armies siege of Lyon after the Revolt of the city against the National Convention.