Jacques Rene Tenon

Jacques Rene Tenon , born close to Joigny the February 21st 1724 and dead the January 16th 1816, is a surgeon French.

Biography

Born in a family from surgeons, Jacques Rene Tenon is the elder one of 11 children. According to the family line, it leaves for Paris to make its studies of Médecine in 1741. It is during its course that he managed to attract himself the favors of Jacques-Benign Winslow, famous surgeon who teaches with the Jardin of the king, and thanks to which he can look further into and practice his knowledge. Seven years later, it takes part in a campaign in Flandres, which completes its education of surgeon, and it is érçu a few months after its return to the assistance of principal surgeon of the hospitals of Paris.

It is affected with the general hospital of Salpêtrière, the female counterpart of Bicêtre, occupied by small ten thousands of people. It deals with the interned women and gives courses to with it to its many students. In 1757, it reaches the pulpit of pathology of the College of surgery. It is for this reason that it obtains from the surgeon of the king, Germain Pichault of Martinière, and the government, the construction of a small hospital contiguous to the College of surgery. It is the occasion to try out the new therapeutic ones, and to exert its sights on the good administration of the hospitals. In May 1759, it is with the Academy of Science that it makes its entry.

In 1785, thirteen years after part of the Hôtel-Dieu of Paris had burned, it is charged by the king, with seven other members of the Academy of Science, to present in front of this one a report/ratio on the rebuilding of the hospital. The report/ratio, largely inspired of work of Tenon, is for him the occasion to publish its famous Mémoire on the hospitals of Paris .

Elected official appointed of the Legislative in 1791, it is named first president of the Comité of public helps, and orders a great investigation into the hospitals in 1791, which makes it possible to know with a certain precision the number of establishments and their capacities through all the Republic. Thing that the Monarchie never had succeeds in making under the Ancien Mode. He is not re-elected under the Convention, and, disapproving his excesses, withdraws himself on his grounds in 1792, where he dies the January 16th 1816.

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