JG Maisonneuve

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JG Maisonneuve

Jacques Gilles Thomas Maisonneuve , also Jules Germain François Maisonneuve (born November 10, 1809 in Nantes , † April 9, 1897 in La Roche-Hervé / Missillac ) was a French surgeon . The Maisonneuve fracture is named after him in medicine .

Life

Maisonneuve studied in Nantes and from 1829 in Paris under Dupuytren and the surgeon and gynecologist Joseph-Claude-Anthelme Récamier . He received his doctorate in 1835 . He then held surgery courses as a prosector of anatomy. In 1840 he first described the Maisonneuve fracture (a form of ankle fracture). From 1842 he was a surgeon at the Bureau central . He then worked at the Bicêtre, Cochin and Pitié hospitals and, from 1862, at the Hôtel-Dieu. He died in the manor Château de la Roche-Hervé .

literature

Web links

  • Biu Santé: Parisdescartes ( portrait ).

Individual evidence

  1. Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Récamier, Joseph-Claude-Anthelme. In: Werner E. Gerabek et al. (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. 2005, p. 1219.