ABSTRACT
GARY MCINTYRE See also Celestial Spheres; Comets; Novae
A military surgeon, he gained practical experience and developed his novel methods on the battlefields of France. His achievements in the treatment of wounds, particularly gunshot wounds, involved the control of hemorrhage, pain, and infection. He had been apprenticed to a barber-surgeon and studied anatomy as a surgical student at a Paris hospital. His successes as a surgeon led to his appointment as surgeon-in-ordinary to the French king and to the position of master chirurgion at the Collège de Saint-Come despite his lack of Latin.
