Édouard-Pierre-Marie Chassaignac (24 December 1804 – 26 August 1879) was a French physician.[1][2][3] He was born in Nantes and in 1835 became prosector and professor at the university and physician at the central bureau of the hospitals of Paris. He originated the surgical operation known as écrasement, by means of which tumors, piles, polypi, and other growths may be removed without the effusion of blood. The general introduction of drainage in surgery is also due to his initiative. He introduced the use of drainage tubes into surgery.
Written works
editHe wrote Traité de l'écrasement linéaire (1856); Leçons sur la trachéométrie (1855); Clinique chirurgicale (1854–58); Traité pratique de la suppuration et du drainage chirurgical (two volumes, 1859). With Gustave-Antoine Richelot (1806-1893) he published a French translation of the surgical works of Astley Cooper, Oeuvres chirurgicales complètes d’Astley Cooper.
Terms
editChassaignac's tubercle — the strongly developed anterior tubercle of the transverse process of the sixth cervical vertebra: called also carotid tubercle.
- Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938)
References
edit- ^ Jean-Loup Avril Mille Bretons: dictionnaire biographique - 2002 Page 87 "Édouard Chassaignac (Collection particulière) Réf. : Denise DELOUCHE. François Hippolyte Lalaisse et la Bretagne, Brest. Éditions de la Cité, 1985. Édouard Pierre Marie CHASSAIGNAC Chirurgien. Né à Nantes le 24 décembre 1804 ; mort ..."
- ^ l'union medicale journal des interets scientifiques et pratiques 1882 Page 162 "M. Édouard-Pierre-Marie Chassaignac est né à Nantes, le 24 décembre 1804. Son père, d'origine française, avait longtemps vécu à la Martinique où, dans une épidémie de fièvre jaune, il perdit une première femme et plusieurs enfants."
- ^ Dr Horteloup Éloge de M. Édouard-Pierre-Marie Chassaignac,... prononcé à la ... - 1882
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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