Jules-Emile Péan

See also: Péan (homonymy)

Jules-Emile Péan is a surgeon French 19th century, born the November 21st 1830 with Marboué, to 4 km in the north of Châteaudun, dead the January 20th 1898, with Paris.

Wire of a miller, he studies with the college of Chartres, then made his medicine in Paris. Raise Auguste Nélaton. Major with the contest of the boarding school, appointed Doctor in 1861. Exerted with St Antoine and St Louis up to 1893. It then created with its expenses the international hospital.

Wrote two volumes of private clinics (1876 and 1890).

Entered with the academy of medicine on November 22nd, 1887.

Commander of the Legion of honor (1893).

This surgeon was very admired and very disputed at his time: although follower of hygiene, it disputed the discoveries of Louis Pasteur. He refused to dissect the corpses and operated preferably in residence. Although teacher, it was never named professor.

He is the first to make a success of an ablation of a Kyste of the ovary (1864) and of a Rate (1863).

He uses in a systematic way a grip with hémostase of his invention. The grip of Péan is still used in all the operating room suites of the world.

Homages

A street bears its name to Châteaudun.

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