Augustin Belloste
Augustin Belloste (* 1654 in Paris ; † July 15, 1730 in Turin ) was a French surgeon .
Life
Augustin Belloste studied surgery in Paris , served as a surgeon in the French army, was chief surgeon in several military hospitals on the border of the Dauphiné and gained extensive experience in the treatment of wounds. In 1697 he was appointed body wound doctor to the Savoy Duchess Maria Johanna Baptista , mother of Viktor Amadeus II. , And held this position until her death in 1724.
Belloste earned services to the rational wound dressing. He also recommended the use of the trephine to bring exposed bones back into place for the skin of the legs and natural coverings. His Liquor Bellostii , consisting of a solution of mercury in fuming nitric acid with water, was used against bone damage.
He wrote the work Le chirurgien d'hôpital, enseignant la manière douce et facile de guérir promptement toutes sortes de plaies… (Paris 1696 and other; Amsterdam 1707; German translation by the Dresden city physicist Martin Schurig (1656–1733), Dresden 1705 and others; Italian translation, Venice 1710; Dutch translation, The Hague 1701; English translation, London 1706), which enjoyed great popularity due to its numerous editions and translations. The continuation of this work ( Suite du chirurgien d'hôpital, du mercure, des maladies des yeux, des tumeurs encystées… , Paris 1725 etc.) is accompanied by a treatise on the use of mercury, in the Belloste in the manner of Quacksalber recommended mercury pills ( Bellostic pills ) named after him as a secret drug against the epidemic of lust and other diseases, without specifying their preparation - which probably did not come from him anyway. His son Michel-Antoine continued the business of selling these pills. Accordingly, he published a special pamphlet on their use, the Traité du mercure, avec une instruction sur le bon usage des pilules de M. Belloste , after the death of his father in 1738 and 1756 in Paris.
literature
- Sprengel: Belloste (Augustin) . In: Johann Samuelansch , Johann Gottfried Gruber (Ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , 1st section, 8th volume (1822), p. 459.
- Belloste, Augustin . In: Heinrich August Pierer (ed.): Universal encyclopedia of the present and the past . 4th edition, 2nd volume (1857), p. 546.
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Schneck: Gynecology (modern times). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , pp. 429-435; here: p. 429.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belloste, Augustin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1654 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1730 |
| Place of death | Turin |