| Abraham Colles |
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| irish doctors | |
| colles, abraham | |
| irish anatomists | |
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| 1773 births | |
| 1843 deaths | |
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Before long, Abraham returned to Dublin to start his own practice. His dedication to surgery led him to be elected President of the Irish College of Surgeons at age twenty eight. In 1811 he wrote an important treatise on surgical anatomy and some terms he introduced have survived in surgical nomenclature until today. He is remembered as a skillful surgeon and for his 1814 paper ''On the Fracture of the Carpal Extremity of the Radius ''; this injury continues to be known as Colles' Fracture . This paper, describing distal radial fractures, was far ahead of its time, being published decades before x-rays came into use. He also described the membraneous layer of subcutaneous tissue of the Perineum , which came to be known as Colle's fascia. He also extensively studied the Inguinal Ligament , which is sometimes called Colle's Ligament . He retired in 1841 and died two years later from Gout . |
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