Antoine Pierre Demours

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Antoine Pierre Demours (born December 16, 1762 in Paris , † October 4, 1836 in Paris) was a French ophthalmologist . He was the son of the ophthalmologist Pierre Demours .

Live and act

Demours was the ophthalmologist of the French kings Louis XVIII. and Charles X. He led by Karl Himly (1772-1837) recommended the use of dilating agents in eye surgery, especially in the operation of cataract in France. Demours also introduced the cutting out of the iris with subsequent artificial pupil formation, as described by the German ophthalmologist Karl Wenzel , in France.

Antoine Pierre Demours 1819. Cupping device. It allows cupping and simultaneous bloodletting or cupping and simultaneous acupuncture

From 1819 to 1825 Demours used acupuncture, or bloody cupping, to treat eye diseases. He mainly used needles or cupping heads on the neck muscles. The neck muscles were the place where the hair rope ("séton"), a method for producing localized suppurations in the treatment of eye infections, was used.

Works

  • Mémoire de M. Demours, fils, Docteur - régent de la Faculté de médecine de Paris et médecin - oculiste du Roi, en survivance ... [suivi de:] Report des commissaires nommés par la Faculté de médecine de Paris, pour examiner un instrument inventé par M. Demours, fils, & propre à faciliter la section de la cornée dans l'opération de la cataracte. Paris 1784 (digitized version)
  • Traité des maladies des yeux: avec des planches coloriées représentant ces maladies d'après nature, suivi de la description de l'oeil humain, traduite du latin de Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring . Chez l'auteur, Paris 1818
  • Précis historique et pratique sur les maladies des yeux. Paris 1821

literature

  • Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna Leipzig Volume II (1885), pp. 151–152 (digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mémoire sur l'operation de la cataracte . Paris 1784
  2. ↑ Observations sur une pupille artificielle, ouverte tout auprès de la sclérotique . Paris 1800
  3. ^ Journal universel des sciences médicales. Volume XV, Paris 1819, pp. 107-113. (Digitized version)
  4. ^ Revue médicale. Volume II, Paris 1825, p. 155.
  5. ↑ MA Jamin: Manuel de petite chirurgie. 3. Edition. Paris 1860, pp. 551-561: Séton.
personal data
SURNAME Demours, Antoine Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1836
Place of death Paris