Ambroise PARE, surgeon of the Renaissance.

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...

Ambroise Pare and His Times, 1510—1590

Contribution to the Treatment of Scoliosis

The purpose of this study is to summarize the treatment options for scoliosis and spine deformities from Antiquity through Medieval Times up to the Renaissance. Furthermore, it is to present the contribution of “the Father of Modern Surgery”, Ambroise Paré (1510-1590), to this field. Paré was a distinguished surgeon of the Renaissance with many contributions to surgery, including war trauma, ob...

Rehabilitation of Enucleated Eye by Ocular Prosthesis: Role of Parents in Prosthesis Development

The disfigurement resulting from loss of an eye can cause significant psychological as well as social consequences for both the patient and family. Ambroise Pare, a French surgeon-dentist, is considered the pioneer of modern artificial eyes. In 1944 Murphy and Nirronen fabricated physiologic ocular prosthesis in dental corps of US Navy [1]. An ocular prosthesis does not provide vision; but give...

Dynamic Psychiatry

THE APOLOGIE AND TREATISE OF AMBROISE PARE' CONTAINING THE VOYAGES MADE INTO DIVERS PLACES, WITH MANY OF HIS WRITINGS UPON SURGERY. Geoffrey Keynes, Ed. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1952. xxv + 227 pp., 4 plates. $3.50. Ambroise Pare was born the son of a French barber and received no education before he entered the field of surgery other than an apprenticeship to a local barber-surgec...