TARNIER, Étienne Stéphane (1828 – 1897)
1828 – 1897
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
1877 CE
#6192
Description de deux nouveaux forceps.
Tarnier invented the axis-traction forceps. See also Ann. Gynéc., 1877, 7, 241-64
1883 CE
#12967
De la couveuse pour enfants. Part 5: Description d'une nouvelle couveuse.
Auvert described a new and improved closed incubator inspired by a bird/poultry incubator that Tarnier saw at a Paris zoo, and had adapted for human babies by the bird incubator's inventor, Dr. Martin. Tarnier used th…
1894 CE
#5639
De l’asepsie et antisepsie en obstétrique.
Tarnier was the first to adopt Listerism in obstetrics. In the discussion following a paper in Trans. int. med. Congr., London, 1881, 4, 390-391, he showed that he was the first to employ carbolic acid solution in obs…