Henry François Le Dran

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Henri François Le Dran

Henry François Le Dran ( October 13, 1685 - October 17, 1770 ) was chief surgeon at the Charité in Paris and royal field surgeon.

He taught alongside Jean-Louis Petit at the Académie royale de Chirurgie in Paris. Le Dran devoted his primary focus to the treatment of gunshot wounds as well as cancer . He introduced the thought, which was groundbreaking for the time, that breast cancer, at least initially, is local in nature. Only when it has made its way into the lymphatic system is the prognosis for the patient bad. Le Dran consequently removed the entire breast including the lymph nodes in the armpit. He saw pain as a useful tool in locating deep abdominal wounds. In 1737 he introduced the term shock ( choquer ) into medicine.

Along with Petit and Sauveur François Morand, Le Dran was one of the most respected surgeons of the 18th century.

Literature (selection)

  • Comparison of the manners of pulling the stone out of the bubbles / which Henry François Le Dran in French. Language and has now been translated into German . Nuremberg 1733.
  • Surgical remarks with attached various concerns about them: for the benefit of those who are obsessed with surgery ; Described in 2 th. Nuremberg 1740.
  • Traité ou réflexions tirées de la pratique sur les playes d'armes à feu . Paris 1737 and Amsterdam 1741.
    • German edition: Treatise on the cur of bullet wounds . Nuremberg 1776.
  • Abrégé économique, de l'anatomie du corps humain: A la portée de toute personne qui veut se connoître & s'instruire en cette partie, ainsi que de tous ceux qui se destinent au grand art de guérir les Malades . Paris 1768.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alphonse Sirica: The Pathobiology of Neoplasia. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012. ISBN 9781468455236 . P. 2
  2. ↑ Mel Greaves: Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780192628343 . P. 33
  3. ↑ James S. Olson: Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History. JHU Press, 2005. ISBN 9780801880643 . P. 34
  4. ^ Lisa Silverman: Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France. University of Chicago Press, 2010. ISBN 9780226757520 . P. 222
  5. ^ Derek S. Wheeler, Hector R. Wong, Thomas P. Shanley: Resuscitation and Stabilization of the Critically Ill Child. Springer Science & Business Media, 2008. ISBN 9781848009196 . P. 89
  6. ^ Lisa Silverman: Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France. University of Chicago Press, 2010. ISBN 9780226757520 . P. 134
personal data
SURNAME Le Dran, Henry François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LeDran, Heinrich Franciscus; Le Dran, Henry-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chief surgeon at the Charité in Paris and royal field surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1685
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1770