Jacques Guillemeau (1550–1613) was a French

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, and a favored student of Ambroise Paré (1510–1590), who was also his father-in-law. Guillemeau, like Paré, was a surgeon to French royalty. In 1584 Guillemeau published ''Traité des maladies de l'oeil'' ("Treatise on eye diseases"), considered one of the best

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-era works in ophthalmic medicine.Online excerpts from Hunton's 1587 translation, ''A worthy treatise of the eyes''
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defect he referred to as ''paupieres accurcies''. In 1609 he published ''De l'heureux accouchement des femmes'' ("The happy delivery of women"),Translated into English in 1612 the first description of a method of assisted breech delivery popularized by other physicians, and sometimes known as the " Mauriceau-Smellie-Veit maneuver". Guillemeau was a practitioner of the podalic version for use in cases of placenta praevia, a procedure earlier revived by Ambroise Paré. Other publications by Guillemeau include ''Tables anatomiques'' and ''La chirurgie française''.

References

* Poulain, François. ''La vie et l'œuvre de deux chirurgiens: Jacques Guillemeau et Charles Guillemeau''. Montpellier. 1993 * Radcliffe, Walter.
Milestones in Midwifery, pioneers at the Hôtel-Dieu
'. Norman Publishing, 1947 , p. 23 * Speert, Harold. ''Obstetrics and gynecology: a history and iconography''

External links

A brief essay on ''Traité des maladies de l'oeil''
on ilab.org

on

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