François Dezoteux (born 1724 in Boulogne-sur-Mer; died 1803 in Versailles) was a French doctor and surgeon.[1]
Francois Dezoteux | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 October 1724 |
| Died | 2 February 1803 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | French |
| Citizenship | France |
Biography edit
He took part as a military surgeon in the War of the Austrian Succession. In 1760 he became surgeon-major of the king's regiment. Appointed in Besançon, he managed to rehabilitate the vaccination of smallpox then lived for some time in England where he studied a new process, the Suttonian inoculation, which he experimented on his return to France.[2][3]
He had Louis XVI establish the school of military surgery in Paris, of which he was appointed head, and was promoted to inspector of military hospitals in 1789, a position he lost during the French Revolution.[4]
He was the co-author of Traité historique et pratique de l’inoculation, which has been digitized by the Wellcome Collection.[5][6]
Bibliography edit
- Dezobry and Bachelet, Dictionary of biography , t. 1, Ch.Delagrave, 1876, p. 791[7]
References edit
- ^ "Dezobry, Arthur Henry Louis", Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press, 2011-10-31, doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00050896, retrieved 2022-06-25
- ^ Journal de la Societe des Americanistes de Paris. 1896.
- ^ Bennett, Michael (2020-06-18). The War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-76567-1.
- ^ Hamy, Ernest Théodore (1896). Études historiques et géographiques (in French). E. Leroux.
- ^ "Traité historique et pratique de l'inoculation lequel on a fait entrer les articles les plus importans de l'ouvrage de Gandoger : on y expose les avantages et les regles de conduite, relatives non-seulement à la facilité de cette opération, mais encore au traitement de la petite vérole / on y indique les moyens d'empêcher l'extension de la contagion variolique, et l'on y propose un plan d'inoculation générale par cantons". Wellcome Collection. Paris. 1799. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ^ "Treasures from the Rare Book Room: Fighting Smallpox". University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System – HSLS Update. March 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ^ "Arbre généalogique de Pierre DE LAUBIER (pdelaubier) - Geneanet". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2022-06-25.