Émile Forgue
Émile Auguste Forgue (29 December 1860 – 1 February 1943) was a French surgeon.
Émile Forgue | |
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| Born | 29 December 1860 |
| Died | 1 February 1943 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | French |
In 1893 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with the thesis Distribution des racines motrices dans les muscles des membres.[1] In 1896 he obtained his agrégation for surgery, and later on, became a professor of operative medicine (1891–1930) and clinical surgery (from 1895) at Montpellier. In 1899 he became a correspondent member of the Académie de Médecine. In 1924 he was appointed director of the Centre anticancéreux de Montpellier.[2][3]
With urologists Leopold Ritter von Dittel and Felix Legueu, the "Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation" is named, a procedure used for closure of vesicovaginal fistulae.[4]
Selected works
- Traité de thérapeutique chirurgicale, 1892 (with Paul Reclus) – Treatise of surgical therapy.
- Guide pratique du médecin dans les accidents du travail, suites médicales et judiciaires, 1905 – Practical guide for the physician in regards to occupational accidents, medical and legal actions.
- Le diverticule de Meckel (appendice de l'iléon) son rôle dans la pathologie et la thérapeutique abdominales, 1907 – Meckel's diverticulum (appendice of the ileum) its role in pathology and abdominal therapy.
- Précis de pathologie externe, 1908 – Specifics of external pathology.
- Gynécologie, 1916 – Gynaecology.
- Théophraste Renaudot, créateur du journalisme en France : une grande figure de l'école médicale de Montpellier, 1927 – Théophraste Renaudot, creator of journalism in France: a great figure of the medical school of Montpellier.
- La rachianesthésie, sa valeur et sa place actuelle dans la pratique, 1930 – Spinal anaesthesia, its value and its present place in practice.
- Précis d'anesthésie chirurgicale; anesthésies générale, rachidienne, locale, 1934 – Precise surgical anesthesia; general anesthesia, spinal, local.
- Les pestiférés de Saint-Jean d'Acre et de Jaffa : un épisode de la vie de Desgenettes : expédition d'Egypte, 1938 – The plague of Saint-Jean d'Acre and Jaffa: an episode in the life of René-Nicolas Dufriche Desgenettes: Egyptian expedition.
- Les "pièges" de la chirurgie en diagnostic et thérapeutique; erreurs et fautes ou faits présumés tels, conditions et limites de la responsabilité, 1939 – The caveats of diagnostic and therapeutic surgery; errors, mistakes or presumptions, conditions and limits of liability.[1][5]
References
- Most widely held works by Emile Auguste Forgue WorldCat Identities
- Émile Forgue (1860-1943) data.bnf.fr.
- Forgue, Émile Auguste Sociétés savantes de France
- Proca, E; Dinu, P; Zamfir, V; Lucan, M (1979). "[A surgical technic deserving reconsideration for closure of vesicovaginal fistulas: the Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation]". Rev Chir Oncol Radiol O R L Oftalmol Stomatol Chir. 28: 103–10. PMID 461866.
- Most widely held works by Emile Forgue WorldCat Identities
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