Pierre-Joseph Desault
Pierre-Joseph Desault | |
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Born | 6 February 1738 Vouhenans, France |
Died | 1 June 1795 Paris, France | (aged 57)
Scientific career | |
Fields | Anatomy Surgery |
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Pierre-Joseph Desault (6 February 1738 – 1 June 1795) was a French
Biography
Pierre-Joseph Desault was born in
In 1784, Desault moved to the
In the midst of his labors, however, he became obnoxious to some of the Revolutionary authorities, and he was, on some frivolous charge, denounced to the government. After being twice examined, he was seized on 28 May 1793, in the midst of delivering a lecture, carried away from his surgical theatre, and committed to prison in the Luxembourg. In three days, however, he was liberated, and permitted to resume his functions. On 31 May 1795 he was summoned to attend to the young Louis XVII by the latter's prisonguards, due to his severe illness. Desault died the next day, before he could visit the King. The rumour that his death was caused by poisoning during this summons was disproved by the autopsy carried out by his pupil Bichat. A pension was settled on his widow by the Republic.
Works
Together with François Chopart (1743-1795), he published Traité des maladies chirurgicales (1779), and Bichat published a digest of his surgical doctrines in OEuvres chirurgicales de Desault (1798-1799).
Notes
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- ISBN 9780521272056.
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Desault, Pierre Joseph". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the