Jacques Lisfranc

Jacques Lisfranc , also Jacques Lisfranc de Saint-Martin (born April 2, 1790 in Saint-Paul-en-Jarez , † May 13, 1847 in Paris ), was a French surgeon .

Lisfranc is known for the dislocation fracture of the tarsometatarsal joint named after him. His descriptions of this injury come from his time as a military doctor in Napoleon's army, when the riders fell from their horses in droves. Some got stuck in their stirrups, a frequent result was a forefoot fracture and a displacement of the metatarsal bones away from the tarsal bones - the Lisfranc dislocation fracture. The amputation named after him is also carried out at this point between the metatarsus and the tarsal bone.

After the military, Lisfranc worked as a surgeon in Paris, where the skilled surgeon performed numerous extremely difficult operations. For example, he resected nine rectal tumors from the perineum. The fact that only three of the patients died in the process was an astonishingly good rate for the time. Although he operated in a progressive manner, Lisfranc also stuck to outdated therapies such as bloodletting. The American doctor and writer OW Holmes, who also lives in Paris, described him as “a great blood sampler and chopper of body parts” and saw him in a “blood frenzy, as he ordered his patients to be veined all whatever they were missing ". As a professor of surgery, he was known for teaching in a loud, booming voice. He liked to attack his former teacher Guillaume Dupuytren in his lectures . His reputation as a surgeon, scientist and lecturer was enormous.

Chopart (green) and Lisfranc joints (red) on the foot.

According to him, which is Lisfranc line ( Articulationes tarsometatarsales ) on foot - skeleton named, along a foot amputation is possible.

A renowned student of Jacques Lisfranc was the syphilidologist Philippe Ricord (1800–1889).

Web links

Biography at whonamedit.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Lisfranc, Jacques. 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 , p. 857.
^ Wolfgang U. Eckart : Philippe Ricord, in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition Springer Heidelberg, 2006, p. 277. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lisfranc, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint-Paul-en-Jarez
DATE OF DEATH	May 13, 1847
Place of death	Paris

[1] Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Lisfranc, Jacques. 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 , p. 857.

[2] Wolfgang U. Eckart : Philippe Ricord, in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition Springer Heidelberg, 2006, p. 277. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .