René-Jacques Croissant de Garengeot

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René-Jacques Croissant de Garengeot (pronounced "... Garangsch-oh"), also René (Jacques) Croissant de Garangeot , born as Jean de Croissant (born June 30, 1688 in Garengeot or Saint-Aubin-des-Landes / Vitré ( Ille-et-Vilaine) ; † December 10, 1759 in Cologne ), was a French surgeon .

Jean de Croissant, who later called himself René-Jacques and added the name of his British birthplace, was initially tutored by his father, a surgeon in Vitré ( Gwitreg in Breton ), and went to Paris at the age of 23 to join the most prestigious To study surgeons and anatomists ( Georges Mareschal , Jacob Winslow and Jean-Louis Petit ). He became a member of the Académie de chirurgie and surgeon of the Régiment du Roi . As a leading French surgeon, he contributed significantly to the further development of surgery and wrote several standard works. His work Traité de opérations de chirurgie , published in 1720, has also been translated into English and German. Garengeot first described an incarcerated femoral hernia (De Garengeot's hernia) and a perineal hernia . He also developed surgical instruments, including an instrument for extracting molars .

Garengeot was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1729 .

After a stroke he died in a Cologne hospital.

literature

  • Biography universelle ou dictionnaire de tous les hommes: qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à ce jour d'après la biographie universelle ancienne et moderne de Michaud ... Foy-Grainville . Ode, 1844, p. 149 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Garengeot, René Jacques Croissant de. 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. 457.
  2. ↑ René-Jacques Croissant de Garengeot: Nouveau Traité des instrumens de chirurgie les plus utilés. Paris 1723.
  3. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Garengeot […]. 2005, p. 457.
personal data
SURNAME Garengeot, René-Jacques Croissant de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garangeot, René-Jacques Croissant de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1688
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitré
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1759
Place of death Cologne