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Ambroise Paré (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz paʁe]; c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine , especially in the ...
Éva Durrleman (19 August 1891 – 15 June 1993) was a co-founder and director of the Ambroise-Paré hospital and nursing school in Lille, France. She was declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on 29 November 1990 for helping to protect Jewish men, women, and children from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
The second figure of importance in this era was Ambroise Paré (sometimes spelled "Ambrose" (c. 1510 – 1590) [46]), a French army surgeon from the 1530s until his death in 1590. The practice for cauterizing gunshot wounds on the battlefield had been to use boiling oil, an extremely dangerous and painful procedure.
In 1579, Ambroise Paré made the first description of diaphragmatic rupture in a French artillery captain who had been shot eight months before his death. He died from complications of the rupture. Using autopsies, Paré also described diaphragmatic rupture in people who had suffered blunt and penetrating trauma.
Thérèse Cécile Jeanne Matter (22 December 1887 – 29 May 1975) [3] [4] was a co-founder and deputy director of the Ambroise-Paré hospital and nursing school in Lille, France. She was declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on 29 November 1990 for helping to protect Jewish men, women, and children from deportation to Nazi ...
But this religious conception did not prevent Early Modern Physicians from being concerned by the problem of pain: [5] they tried to cure it with pain-killers called "anodynes", they discussed the problem of the phantom-pain, described in the 16th century by the surgeon Ambroise Paré; and they proposed rich descriptions of the signs of pain. [6]
'Eddie' became a surprise smash a full year after it bombed at the box office, due to the 1980s' cable TV revolution — but its star admits the soundtrack would've never gone triple-platinum if ...
Military medical personnel engage in humanitarian work and are "protected persons" under international humanitarian law in accordance with the First and Second Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, which established legally binding rules guaranteeing neutrality and protection for wounded soldiers, field or ship's medical personnel, and specific humanitarian institutions in an ...