ABSTRACT
Ambroise Paré was a French surgeon who served in that role for the kings of France Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He became famous through the publication of his work on the cures for war wounds, especially wounds caused by firearms, and later his encyclopedic work on surgery, entitled Opera chirurgica. In the latter work, Paré devoted a chapter to the ‘perturbations of the mind’, emotions whose ‘symptoms’ he felt ‘wise surgeons’ should be able to identify lest a surgeon ‘inconsiderately put any patient committed to his charge into any of these passions’.
