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Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009 Series 6: Medical Sciences Supplement – Proceeding of The IV th Balkan Congress of History of Medicine AMBROISE PARÉ’S BROKEN LEFT LEG IN 1555 P. ALBOU 1 Abstract: The scene occurs in 1555: when Ambroise Paré (1510-1590), the famous French surgeon of the Renaissance, crossed in boat a river to go to visit with a horse a patient in the surroundings of Paris, his horse gave him “such a kick” that the two bones of his left leg were entirely broken, a few centimeters over the foot… The description of this accident and its consequences was written by Ambroise Paré himself and can be red in a text named History of the author having a broken leg that we can find in his Surgical Works. We will recall in this paper this accident and its consequences, which lasted several months. Beyond its biographical and anecdotic interest, this observation informs us about various aspects of the surgical practice of this time. It illustrates also Georges Canguilhem’s reflection: “The doctor have to know that he is a potential patient and he is not better assured than his patients to succeed, if necessary, to substitute its knowledge for its anguish” 1 St-Amand-Montrond, France. Key words: Ambroise Paré, 1555. «Plato was therefore right to say that to be a true doctor would require that anyone who would practice as such should have recovered from all the illness which he claimed to cure and have gone thought all the symptoms and conditions on which he would seek to give an opinion. If doctors want to know how to cure syphilis it is right that they should first catch it themselves! I would truly trust the one who did» Montaigne, Essays, III, 13 Ambroise Paré (1510-1590) was the surgeon of King Henry II and his descendants: François II, Charles IX and Henri III. The scene occurs in 1555: when Ambroise Paré (1510-1590), the famous French surgeon of the Renaissance, crossed in boat a river to go to visit with a horse a patient in the surroundings of Paris, his horse gave him “such a kick” that the two bones of his left leg were entirely broken, a few centimetres over the foot… The description of this accident and its consequences was written by Ambroise Paré himself and can be red in a text named History of the author having a broken leg, that we can find in his Surgical Works (Œuvres d’Ambroise Paré,1579, Livre 14, Chap. 23 to 28).
86 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009 • Series VI Ambroise Paré (1510-1590) (Copyright BIUM) Oeuvres d’Ambroise Paré (1579) (Copyright BIUM) We will recall in this paper this accident and its consequences, which lasted several months: After his leg was broken, his first thinking was to be afraid to have his leg cut off and he began to pray... Ambroise Paré tells us that when he fell on the ground, "the fractured bone through flesh, the trousers, and even the boot”, then he felt "such a pain it is possible for man to endure." After being rescued by his friends, he was transported to a nearby house with a lot of pain because, he says, "one brought the body, the other leg, the other foot and walking one rose on the left and the other bent on the right." First medical care While sweating profusely, a plaster was applied over the injury from the available ingredients: egg white, wheat flour, furnace soot, all mixed with fresh butter melted. He asked his friend Richard Hubert reduce the fracture "and forget the friendship he bore him, pulling hard on his foot and digging in the wound with a razor" to recover more easily bones in their normal position. Splints were then implemented his leg resting on a cushion "as you see in this figure": Paré’s figure (Copyright BIUM)
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