Pierre Joseph Desault

Pierre Joseph Desault , born with Vouhenans (Haute-Saône) the February 6th 1744 and died in Paris on June 1st 1795, is a French surgeon and anatomist. This doctor took care to Louis XVII of France then imprisoned to the Tour of the Temple.

Biography

He came in 1764 to Paris, and, while following the lessons of Jean-Louis Petit and the famous surgeons of the time, started as of the 22 years age to make courses which attracted soon crowd. He was successively named professor at the practical school, member of the college of surgery in 1776, surgeon as a chief of the hospital of Charity in 1782, then of the Hôtel-Dieu in 1788. Pierre Joseph Desault taught the anatomy on corpses and either on the mural boards or wax parts.

During the French revolution, it was devoted to the patients and the casualties. II was elected in 1792 member of the committee of health of the armies, became professor of surgical private clinic at the new school of health. In spite of that, on May 28th 1793, it was stopped like suspect. It had its release to about fifty doctors who wrote a petition for his handing-over in freedom and with the intercession of François Antoine de Fourcroy. It was charged in 1795 to give care to the young person wire of Louis XVI: Louis XVII. He died itself during this treatment, at the 51 years age. A rumor was propagated: Desault would have been poisoned to have refused to carry out certain criminal projects of the revolutionary government, which would have wished to make trespass the son of Louis XVI. The autopsy made on the corpse of Desault indicated that there was no trace of poison in its bodies.

Desault was also remarkable as professor and operator. It made take a great step with the surgical Anatomie. The surgery owes him a great number of inventions or important improvements, among which one notices his apparatuses for the fractures and the diseases of the urinary tracts.

It did not almost publish anything itself. He is the author with his friend the surgeon François Chopart of a Traité surgical diseases , published in 1780. Xavier Bichat, one of its most distinguished pupils, published under its name four volumes of surgical Works in 1798 - 1799.

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