LE DRAN, Henri François (1685 – 1770)
1685 – 1770
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1730 CE
#4283
Parallèle des différentes manières de tirer la pierre hors de la vessie.
Le Dran, famous French lithotomist, improved the operation of lithotomy. Murphy credits him for originating the lateral lithotomy usually attributed to Cheselden, whose method he discusses. Le Dran was one of Haller&r…
1737 CE
#2149
Traité ou reflexions tirées de la pratique sur les playes d’armes à feu.
English translation, 1743.
1757 CE
#2607
Mémoire avec un précis de plusieurs observations sur le cancer.
Le Dran discarded the humoral conception of cancer for the first time. He regarded cancer as a local disease in its early stage and knew that it spread via the lymphatics to regional nodes, and from there into the gen…