DUPUYTREN, Guillaume, Le Baron (1777 – 1835)

1818 CE

#2976

Anéurisme à l’artère poplitée par la compression.

Dupuytren was the first successfully to treat aneurysm by compression.

1819 CE

#2943

Account of the tying of the subclavian artery.

Dupuytren successfully ligated the subclavian artery on March 7, 1819.

1819 CE

#4411

Mémoire sur la fracture de l’extrémité inférieure du péroné, les luxations et les accidens qui en sont la suite.

“Dupuytren’s fracture”, of the ankle, described in a learned 212-page review of ankle fractures, and of the normal anatomy and function of the ankle joint. “Of especial interest is the descript…

1820 CE

#4444

Observation sur une résection de la mâchoire inférieure.

Dupuytren was the first successfully to excise the lower jaw, in 1812, as recorded in his Leçons orales, 1829, 2, 421-53. The above paper deals with a later operation of the same type.

1826 CE

#4413

Mémoire sur un déplacement originel ou congénital de la tête des fémurs.

First clear pathological description of congenital dislocation of the hip-joint. Dupuytren distinguished this syndrome caused by failure of fetal development of the acetabulum from deformities due to tuberculosis and …

1826 CE

#2947

Observation sur un cas de ligature de l’artère iliaque externe.

Successful ligation of the external iliac, Oct. 16, 1815.

1828 CE

#3437

Mémoire sur une méthode nouvelle pour traiter les anus accidentels.

Dupuytren invented an enterotome to perform his operation for artificial anus.

1829 CE

#3438

Abcès développé dans le petit bassin.

“Dupuytren’s abscess” of the right iliac fossa.

1831 CE

#4317

De la rétraction des doigts par suite d’une affection de l’aponévrose palmaire, opération chirurgicale qui convient dans ce cas.

Dupuytren devised an operation for the treatment of contracture of the palmar fascia (“Dupuytren’s contracture”). Reprinted, with translation, in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 127-50. The condition was fir…

1832 CE–1834 CE

#2247

Leçons orales de clinique chirurgicale. 4 vols.

Dupuytren was born in poverty and died a millionaire. He became the best surgeon of his time in France. He was a “shrewd diagnostician, an operator of unrivaled aplomb, a wonderful clinical teacher, and a good e…

1834 CE

#2163

Traité théorique et pratique des blessures par armes de guerre. 2 vols.

1836 CE

#4290.1

Mémoire sur une manière nouvelle de pratiquer l’opération de la pierre… Terminé et publié par J.L. Sanson et par L.J. Bégin…

Posthumously published by Sanson, whose method of rectovesical lithotomy is considered here along with the controversial method of lithotrity. Dupuytren tried both but dropped them in favor of continuing the method of…

1839 CE

#4322

Leçons orales de clinique chirurgicale. 2me. éd. Tom. 3.

Pp. 455-61: Dupuytren was the first to treat wry neck by subcutaneous section of the sternomastoid muscle. This he did on 16 Jan, 1822. The operation was first reported in C. Averill: Short treatise on operative surge…

1856 CE

#11146

Manuel d'anatomie pathologique générale et appliquée: Contenant la description et le catalogue du Musée Dupuytren.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1877 CE–1879 CE

#11147

Catalogue des pièces du Musée Dupuytren, publié sous les auspices de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris. 5 vols. text plus 4 vols. atlas.

Detailed catalogue, illustrated by photography, of the Musée Dupuytren, a museum of gross pathology. When this catalogue was published the museum contained about 6000 items.