Auguste Nélaton

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Auguste Nélaton
Nélaton and Giuseppe Garibaldi

Auguste Nélaton (born June 17, 1807 in Paris , † September 21, 1873 there ) was a French surgeon .

Career

Nélaton studied medicine in Paris and graduated in 1836 with a doctoral thesis on the effects of tuberculosis on the bones . He worked as a surgeon at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, among others , and was appointed professor of surgery in 1851. He resigned his professorship in 1867 and became an imperial surgeon. In the same year he became a member of the Académie des sciences .

plant

He was the first to describe the hematocele , developed a number of surgical procedures for plastic surgery and a special form of ligature . He also developed the Nélaton probe , a medical probe with a porcelain tip that was used to find foreign bodies. It was successfully used by him to remove a ball from Garibaldi's ankle, one of his most famous surgeries. Another invention of the surgeon is the Nelaton catheter , a soft, straight urinary catheter made of vulcanized rubber for gentle urinary drainage .

The Nelaton tumor (bone tumor), the Nélaton syndrome (a rare hereditary disease) and the Roser-Nélaton line were also named after Nélaton .

Publications

  • Recherches sur l'affection tuberculeuse des os. Promotion. Paris 1836.
  • Traité des tumeurs de la mamelle. 1839.
  • Eléments de pathologie chirurgicale. 5 volumes, Germer-Baillière, Paris 1844–1860.
  • Leçons sur l'hématocèle rétro-utérine. In: Gazette des Hôpitaux , Volume 3, (Paris) 1851, pp. 573, 578 f. and 581, Volume 4, 1852, pp. 45 f. and 66 f.
  • De l'influence de la position dans les maladies chirurgicales. Habilitation. Germer-Baillière, Paris 1851.
  • Parallèle des divers modes opératoires dans le traitement de la cataracte.
  • Eléments de pathologie chirurgicale. 5 volumes, Paris 1844-1859.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recherches sur l'affection tuberculeuse des os. Paris 1836.
  2. ^ List of members since 1666: letter N. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 27, 2020 (French).
  3. ^ Digestive Diseases and Sciences: Pearls of gastroenterology. Springer Netherlands, issue 1, number 11 from November 1956, ISSN  0163-2116
  4. ^ Contribution to the knowledge of the "familial myelodysplasic syndromes" and the "status dysraphicus". In: Journal for the whole of neurology and psychiatry. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, issue 146, number 1 from December 1933, ISSN  0303-4194
  5. ^ Urban & Fischer, Hoffmann-La Roche SA (Basel), F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co: Roche Lexicon Medicine. Elsevier, Urban & Fischer Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-437-15150-9 , p. 1301.

literature

  • Wolfgang Uwe Eckart, Christoph Gradmann: Doctors Lexicon: From antiquity to the present. Springer, 2006, ISBN 3-540-29585-2 , pp. 238-239.
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Auguste Nélaton. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte . De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1030.

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personal data
SURNAME Nélaton, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nelaton, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1873
Place of death Paris