On the injuries and diseases of bones : being selections from the collected edition of the clinical lectures of Baron Dupuytren, Surgeon-in-chief to the Hôtel-Dieu at Paris / translated and edited by F. Le Gros Clark.

  • Dupuytren, Guillaume, 1777-1835.
Date:
1847
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Credit: On the injuries and diseases of bones : being selections from the collected edition of the clinical lectures of Baron Dupuytren, Surgeon-in-chief to the Hôtel-Dieu at Paris / translated and edited by F. Le Gros Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and returned worse than when lie set out. For a time he was unwilling to admit to himself the serious nature of his malady, until the progress of the disease rendered it impossible to dis- pute its probably fatal termination. His professional attend- ants were divided in opinion as to the propriety of relienng the chest by paracentesis; but when the idea was suggested to the patient, he remarked that it was of little consequence, as he was persuaded he must die whether the operation were per- formed or not. Amongst his last thoughts was the creation of a chair of pathological anatomy; and he expired on the 8th of February, 1835. As regards personal appearance, Dupuytren was of middling stature, well and strongly made, without being clumsy. The predominant expression of his face denoted the force and energy of his mind, mingled, however, with that supercilious- ness which was equally a part of his character. His forehead was high and ample, though somewhat compressed above and behind the external angular processes of the frontal bone. On the whole, in spite of his slovenly and even mean attire, the attentive observer could not but be impressed with the con- viction that, in beholding Dupuytren, he was regarding a man of no ordinary stamp. He was borne to his grave in Pere-Lachaise by his former pupils, and followed by a great number of men eminent in science; as well as by a crowd of artisans, who held in grateful remembrance the substantial benefits for which they were in- debted to the chief surgeon of the Hotel-Dieu.