Louis Hubert Farabeuf (1841–1910),

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surgeon In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery. Even though there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon is a licensed physician and received the same medical training as physicians before spec ...

who is said to have introduced

hygiene Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), "Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases." Personal hygiene refer ...

in French medical schools. His statue dominates the central court of the National School of Medicine in Paris whose main

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is also named after him. Farabeuf wrote some short

surgical Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery ...

booklets (précis) and designed several medical instruments (such as the Farabeuf periosteal elevator) that are still in use today. His name is associated with Farabeuf's triangle of the neck, a triangle formed by the internal

jugular vein The jugular veins () are veins that take blood from the head back to the heart via the superior vena cava. The internal jugular vein descends next to the internal carotid artery and continues posteriorly to the sternocleidomastoid muscle. Struc ...

common facial vein The facial vein usually unites with the anterior branch of the retromandibular vein to form the common facial vein, which crosses the external carotid artery and enters the internal jugular vein at a variable point below the hyoid bone. From near ...

and the

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, as well as Farabeuf retractors and Farabeuf bone holding forceps.

Farabeuf as a Fictional Character

His passionate writings and descriptions of

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surgery attracted the attention of writers and scholars. * Mexican writer,

Salvador Elizondo Salvador Elizondo Alcalde (December 19, 1932, in Mexico City – March 29, 2006) was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature. Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental, intelligent ...

, wrote a cryptic book:

Farabeuf o la Crónica de un instante Louis Hubert Farabeuf (1841–1910), French surgeon who is said to have introduced hygiene in French medical schools. His statue dominates the central court of the National School of Medicine in Paris whose main amphitheater is also named afte ...

. It is not a biography.

References

Notes

*Farabeuf, Louis Hubert, ''Precis de manuel operatoire'', Masson, Paris (188

*José, Alán, ''Farabeuf y la estética del mal'', ESN (200

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Retractor (medical) A retractor is a surgical instrument used to separate the edges of a surgical incision/wound or to hold away certain organs and tissues (i.e. to provide tissue ''retraction'') so that body parts underneath may be accessed during surgical operatio ...

*https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Farabeuf+forceps

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