Rene Leriche

Rene Leriche , born with Roanne the October 12th 1879 and died in Blackcurrant (Rhone delta) the December 28th 1955, is a Chirurgie N and Physiologiste French, specialist in the surgery of the Sympathique and phenomenon of the Douleur.

Resulting from a family of Médecin S Lyon be born, it is internal in 1902, then doctor of medicine in 1906 with a thesis on the Résection of the stomach within the framework of the Cancer. He becomes surgeon at the hospitals of Lyon in 1919. A stay with the the United States in particular enables him to meet William Halsted, which preaches the surgery carefully. In 1924, it is titular of one pulpit at the university of Strasbourg, where it introduces the concept of soft surgery. It compensates in 1936 Charles Nicole for the Collège de France. Returned in Lyon after the armistice of 1940, it seems according to information published (http://picardp1.ivry.cnrs.fr/Leriche.html) then to have declined the post of minister of the Health which would have proposed the Head of the French State to him, the marshal Pétain. It accepts nevertheless the presidency of the National order of the doctors created in October 1940 by the mode of Vichy. This organization will reinforce the influence of the State on the organization of medicine, will support the numerus clausus and will apply the professional prohibition of the doctors of Jewish origin. Professor Leriche, in dissension with the directives of the State, resigns in December 1942 of it. With the Release, it is évincé official circuits. He is elected member of the Academy of Science and Academy of Medicine in 1945. (The Ordre of the doctors is then reformed. http://www.conseil-national.medecin.fr/?url=historique/article.php&offset=0)

Sensitized by many mutilated war, it is one of the first to be been interested in the pain and into practice to put a surgery soft, treasurer in Sang and as atraumatic as possible. Two Syndrome S bear its name, the Algoneurodystrophie and aorto-iliaque obliteration.

A way and a house of the civil Hospital of Strasbourg bear its name and a stamp with its effigy was emitted in 1958.

Rene Leriche corrected the tests of his autobiography little before his death. This book was published in 1956 pennies the unfortunate title (chosen by the editor) " Memories of my life morte". Its contents are an anthem with the life…

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