Ambroise Pare: Barber vascular surgeon

Ambroise PARE, surgeon of the Renaissance.

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Ambroise Pare and His Times, 1510—1590

Ambroise Paré (1510-1590): surgeon and obstetrician of the Renaissance.

Ambroise Pare's life spanned most of the sixteenth century. He was born in a village near Laval in Maine, to a chest maker. After an apprenticeship to a barber-surgeon in Angers from the age of 15, he spent four years (1532-36) as surgical dresser at the Hotel Dieu in Paris. Sylvius was one of his teachers. He qualified as a master barber-surgeon in 1541 and was admitted to the Royal College of...

A seventeenth-century German barber-surgeon and his patients.

PATIENTS AND HEALERS In recent years some attempts have been made to break away from a physiciancentred view of medical history and to establish as a counterweight a patient-oriented history or, more precisely, "a sick people's or sufferer's history (for the very word 'patient' seems dangerously redolent of professional medical relations)",' as Roy Porter, one of the protagonists of this kind o...

Ambroise Paré (1510 to 1590): a surgeon centuries ahead of his time.

In their extensive writings, Hippocrates and Celsus counseled physicians to be knowledgeable in both the medical and surgical management of patient recovery. However, their words fell by the wayside because cutting of the body was forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church. Furthermore, the contemporaneous Arabic medical teachings emphasized tradition and authority over observation and personal exp...