Robert Merle d'Aubigné

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Robert Merle d'Aubigné (born July 23, 1900 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , † October 11, 1989 in Paris ) was a French orthopedist.

Life

Born into a Huguenot family as the grandson of Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné , Robert Merle d'Aubigné attended the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly. During the First World War , his school was rededicated as a hospital. There he met the American surgeon Philip D. Wilson . He was drafted into the army two months before the Compiègne armistice (1918) . Studying medicine at the University of Paris disappointed him:

"Misery, resignation, and death on one side, pretension and high falutin speech on the other, was the most common spectacle."

- Merle d'Aubigné on the medical training in Paris

For over 12 years in general surgery at the Hôpital de Vaugirard in the 15th arrondissement , he turned to orthopedics . In the 1930s he spent a time with Lorenz Böhler in Vienna and with Vittorio Putti in Bologna. He served as a captain during World War II . At the time of the Vichy regime he was in the Resistance . When Charles de Gaulle returned to France, he was given the task of reorganizing the medical service.

In December 1944 he visited Reginald Watson-Jones , Ludwig Guttmann and other colleagues in England . The Royal College of Surgeons of England invited him. Deeply impressed by these experiences, he went to the Center for Reconstructive Surgery that the French Army had set up at the Leopold Bellan Hospital. His group was transferred to the Hôpital Foch . In 1948 he came to the Hôpital Cochin as chief physician , where he stayed until his retirement (1970). Since 1966 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences .

Merle d'Aubigné was the defining figure in French orthopedics. He was world famous for his score for hip osteoarthritis surgery . In Valenton a clinic for was Medical Rehabilitation named after him.

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  1. François Hollande was also at the Lycée Pasteur .
  2. Wilson († 1969) designed the bone bank in New York. In 1964 he became an honorary member of the German Orthopedic Society.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b D. J. Biau, RA Brand: Robert Merle d'Aubigné, 1900-1989. In: Clinical orthopedics and related research. Volume 467, number 1, January 2009, pp. 2-6, doi : 10.1007 / s11999-008-0571-2 , PMID 18941853 , PMC 2600977 (free full text).
  2. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter M. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 22, 2020 (French).
  3. Merle d'Aubigné unified his country's orthopedic community. French pioneer separated discipline from general surgery while introducing new concepts and practices (Healio Orthopedics)
  4. ^ R. Merle d'Aubigné: Cotation chiffrée de la fonction de la hanche . Revue de Chirurgie Orthopédique et Réparatrice de l'Appareil Moteur 56 (1970), pp. 481-486.
  5. Robert Merle d'Aubigné Institute