French Surgery of the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book French Surgery of the Eighteenth Century written by Serge J. Dos and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is during the eighteenth century that the faltering march of surgery from empiric craft to scientific discipline began. French surgeons were prominent leaders of this evolution, and those practicing in Paris turned the capital into a surgical mecca attracting surgical students and mature professionals from all over Europe and even from America. They also created the Royal Academy of Surgery, soon the lodestar of the surgical world. During its sixty-two years’ existence, the academy published five tomes of memoirs, which became the surgical vade mecum for most of Europe.