Paul Reclus (surgeon)

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Paul Reclus (born March 7, 1847 in Orthez , Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques , † July 29, 1914 in Paris ) was a French surgeon .

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Reclus was a son of the pastor Jacques Reclus and his wife Zeline Trigant-Marquey. He had thirteen siblings, including the ethnologist, journalist and anarchist Élie Reclus (1827-1904), the anarchist and geographer Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), the geographer Onésime Reclus (1837-1916) and the geographer Armand Reclus (1843-1927) ). He is not to be confused with the anarchist Paul Reclus (1858-1914), his nephew, the son of Élie.

Reclus attended the Protestant high school in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande and studied medicine in Paris from 1867, where he received his doctorate in 1876 . From 1879 he was a surgeon at a Paris hospital, received the Agrégation in 1880 and in 1895 became a professor at the Medical Faculty in Paris. He was a member of the Académie nationale de Médecine .

The residence became the famous Château d'Orion , where Marguerite Bérard, daughter of the former French education minister Léon Bérard , the wife of a descendant of Reclus , still lives today .

As a surgeon, Reclus pioneered the use of cocaine as an anesthetic . He also conducted the clinical tests for the first viable synthetic substitute for cocaine as a local anesthetic , the stovain developed by Ernest Fourneau in 1903 .

Paul Reclus died on July 29, 1914 in Paris, where he found his final resting place.

Fonts (selection)

as an author
  • Notice on Paul Broca . Baillère 1880.
  • De la syphilis du testicule . Masson, Paris 1882.
  • Clinique et critique chirurgicales . Masson, Paris 1884.
  • Manuel de pathologie external . Masson, Paris 1885
  1. Maladies communes à tous les tissus. Maladies des tissus ( online version at Archive.org ).
  • Cliniques chirurgicales de l'Hôtel-Dieu . Masson, Paris 1888.
  • Inflammations, traumatismes, maladies virulentes . Masson, Paris 1894.
  • Cliniques chirurgicales de la Pitié . Masson, Paris 1894.
  • La cocaïne en surgery . Masson, Paris 1895.
  • L'anesthésie localisée par la cocaïne . Masson, Paris 1903.
as editor
  • together with Simon Duplay : Traité de chirurgie . Masson, Paris 1890/96 (8 volumes)
  • together with Édouard Brissaud and Adolphe Pinard : Nouvelle Pratique médico-chirurgicale illustrée . Masson, Paris 1911/12 (8 volumes)

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personal data
SURNAME Reclus, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Orthez
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1914
Place of death Paris