Surgery


Pump, aspirating (3) by DIEULAFOY

 

To puncture caves and abscesses served the two-way syringe after Paul-Georges DIEULAFOY (1839-1911).



Born in Toulouse on 18 November 1839, he came to Paris to study medicine. From the beginning he had the desire to achieve the same prestige in clinical teaching and in society the same priority as his role model Prof. Armand TROUSSEAU. In 1865 he was first in the competition of the boarding school. On 14.5.1869 he defended his thesis: "Of sudden death in typhoid fever". In the same year he improved the technique of thoracocentesis in pleurisy and gave a device to evacuate the fluids - the syringe named after him today ...


In 1873 he published a lecture on the aspiration of pathological fluids. This invention joins in his many works on pleurisy - the importance that he has given to puffy pleurisy, especially interlobar pleurisy, is well known.

Elected president of the Académie de Médecine in 1910, DIEULAFOY died on 16.08.1911 in Paris.

 

 

Lit.

G. Dieulafoy, Etude sur l'appendicite, La Presse Médicale 1896, p.12.

G. Dieulafoy, Traité de l´aspiration des liquides morbides. Méthode médico-chirurgicale de diagnostic et de traitement. Paris, Masson and London, 1873. 483 pages.

G. Dieulafoy, Manuel de pathologie interne. Paris, 1880-1884.

G. Dieulafoy, Cliniques médicales de l'Hôtel Dieu, Paris (1897)

G. Dieulafoy, Histoire de la Médecine par Maurice Bariéty et Charles Coury , Fayard Editeur.

Ostini, S., L’aspirateur souscutané de Georges Dieulafoy (1869), in: Rev Med Suisse Romande. 1993 Jan;113(1):69-70.