Ambroise Pare (Ambrose Pare)
Ambroise Pare (c. 1510 - 1590) was a surgeon in the French army who made a number of important advances in surgery and other fields of medicine.
Pare initiated more humane methods of treating wounds. Until his time, bleeding from a wound was stopped by cauterizing or sealing with a hot iron or hot oil. He instead used a dressing of egg whites, oil of roses and turpentine to seal the wound and provide relief from pain.
Pare also introduced the use of ligatures to stop bleeding after amputations, and designed artificial limbs to help in the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers.
Pare was interested in obstetrics, wrote a textbook on midwifery, and founded a school for midwives in Paris.
Pare initiated more humane methods of treating wounds. Until his time, bleeding from a wound was stopped by cauterizing or sealing with a hot iron or hot oil. He instead used a dressing of egg whites, oil of roses and turpentine to seal the wound and provide relief from pain.
Pare also introduced the use of ligatures to stop bleeding after amputations, and designed artificial limbs to help in the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers.
Pare was interested in obstetrics, wrote a textbook on midwifery, and founded a school for midwives in Paris.
Who was Ambroise Paré?
On Monsters and Marvels (by Ambroise Pare)
On Monsters and Marvels
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Ambroise Paré, born in France around 1510, was chief surgeon to both Charles IX and Henri III. In one of the first attempts to explain birth defects, Paré produced On Monsters and Marvels, an illustrated encyclopedia of curiosities, of monstrous human and animal births, bizarre beasts, and natural phenomena. Janice Pallister's acclaimed English translation offers a glimpse of the natural world as seen by an extraordinary Renaissance natural philosopher.
Ambroise Paré (article)
Ambroise Paré (born in Bourg-Hersent, near Laval, France, c. 1510 - Paris, December 20, 1590) was a French surgeon. He was the great official royal surgeon for the kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III and is considered as one of the fathers of surgery. He was a leader in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, especially the treatment of wounds. He was also an anatomist and the inventor of several surgical instruments.
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