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Alexis Boyer ( 1 March 1757 - 23 November 1833 ) was a French Surgeon born in Uzerches ( Correze ). BACKGROUND The son of a tailor, he obtained his first medical knowledge in the shop of a barber-surgeon. Moving to Paris , he had the good fortune to attract the attention of Antoine Louis ( 1723 - 1792 ) and P. J. Desault ( 1744 - 1795 ). Through perseverance, anatomical skill and dexterity as an operator, Boyer became so conspicuous, that at the age of thirty-seven he obtained the appointment of second surgeon to the Hotel Dieu Of Paris . On the establishment of the École De Sante , he gained the chair of operative surgery, but soon exchanged it for the chair of clinical surgery. In 1805 , Napoleon promoted Boyer to the status of imperial family surgeon, and, after the brilliant campaigns of 1806 –7, conferred on him the Legion Of Honor , with the title of baron of the empire and a salary of 25,000 francs. On the fall of Napoleon, the merits of Boyer secured him the favor of the succeeding sovereigns of France, and he was consulting surgeon to Louis XVIII , Charles X , and Louis Philippe . In 1825 Boyer succeeded J. F. L. Deschamps (1740-1824) as surgeon-in-chief to the Hôpital De La Charité , and was chosen a member of the Institute . He died in Paris in 1833 . LEGACY Perhaps no French surgeon of his time thought or wrote with greater clearness and good sense than Boyer; and while his natural modesty made him distrustful of innovation, and somewhat tenacious of established modes of treatment, he was as judicious in his diagnosis and as cool and skillful in manipulating, as he was cautious in forming his judgment on individual cases. His two great works are ''Trait complet de l'anatomie'' (in 4 vols., 1797 - 1799 ), of which a fourth edition appeared in 1815 , and ''Trait des maladies chirurgicales et des operations qui leur conviennent'' (in II vols., 1814-1826), of which a newer edition in 7 volumes was published in 1844 - 1853 , with additions by his son, Philippe Boyer ( 1801 - 1858 ). REFERENCES |
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