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Key facts
- Born
- 1510 ( 1510 ) , Bourg-Hersent near Laval , France
- Died
- 20 December 1590 (1590-12-20) (aged 79–80), Paris, France
- Citizenship
- France
- Known for
- Contributions to surgery
- Fields
- Barber surgery
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Place of birth
- Laval
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- military physician
- Educated at
- University of Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Field of work
- medicine
- Image
- Portrait of Ambroise Paré.jpg
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- Ambroise Paré
- date of death
- 1590-12-20
- date of birth
- 1510-00-00
- described by source
- The Catholic Encyclopedia
- name in native language
- Ambroise Paré
- writing language
- Middle French
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Encyclopedic overview
Ambroise Paré ( French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz paʁe]; c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, especially in the treatment of wounds. He was also an anatomist, invented several surgical instruments, and was a member of the Parisian barber surgeon guild.
In his personal notes about the care he delivered to Captain Rat, in the Piémont campaign (1537–1538), Paré wrote: Je le pansai, Dieu le guérit ("I bandaged him and God healed him"). This epitomises a philosophy that he used throughout his career. These words, inscribed on his statue in Laval, are reminiscent of the Latin adage medicus curat, natura sanat, "The physician cures, nature heals".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ambroise Paré” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.