Alphonse François Marie Guérin (; August 9, 1816 – February 21, 1895) was a French surgeon who was a native of Ploërmel. He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1850 became a surgeon of Parisian hospitals. During his career, he practiced surgery at the Lourcine, Cochin, Hôpital Saint-Louis and

Hôtel-Dieu In French-speaking countries, a hôtel-Dieu ( en, hostel of God) was originally a hospital for the poor and needy, run by the Catholic Church. Nowadays these buildings or institutions have either kept their function as a hospital, the one in Paris b ...

. In 1868 he became a member of the French

Académie Nationale de Médecine Situated at 16 Rue Bonaparte in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the Académie nationale de médecine (National Academy of Medicine) was created in 1820 by King Louis XVIII at the urging of baron Antoine Portal. At its inception, the instituti ...

. In 1870, Guérin introduced the practice of using cotton-wool bandages for prevention of wound infections. He described a horizontal

fracture Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displa ...

of the maxilla immediately above the teeth and palate, that is known today as a " Le Fort I fracture", or sometimes as a "Guérin fracture".

Associated eponyms

He was a specialist in

urologic Urology (from Ancient Greek, Greek wikt:οὖρον, οὖρον ''ouron'' "urine" and ''wiktionary:-logia, -logia'' "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of t ...

surgery, and has a handful of genitourinary terms that contain his name: * "

Guérin's glands In female human anatomy, Skene's glands or the Skene glands ( , also known as the lesser vestibular glands, paraurethral glands) are glands located around the lower end of the urethra. The glands are surrounded by tissue that swells with blood ...

": Today referred to as periurethral glands, or as

Skene's glands In female human anatomy, Skene's glands or the Skene glands ( , also known as the lesser vestibular glands, paraurethral glands) are glands located around the lower end of the urethra. The glands are surrounded by tissue that swells with blood d ...

. * "Guérin's sinus": The

lacuna magna In male anatomy, the lacuna magna (also called Guérin's sinus) is the largest of several recesses in the roof of the navicular fossa of the male urethra. Structure The lacuna magna is a large recess in the roof of the navicular fossa of the ...

; a

diverticulum In medicine or biology, a diverticulum is an outpouching of a hollow (or a fluid-filled) structure in the body. Depending upon which layers of the structure are involved, diverticula are described as being either true or false. In medicine, t ...

or cul-de-sac behind Guérin's valve (fold of navicular fossa). * "Guérin's valve": Fold or valve of mucous membrane in the navicular fossa.

Writings

* ''De la fièvre purulente'', (doctoral thesis) Paris, 1847. * ''Eléments de chirurgie opératoire, ou traité pratique des opérations''. Paris, 1855; fourth edition, Paris, Lauwereyns, 1870. * ''Maladies des organes génitaux externes de la femme. Leçons cliniques sur les maladies des organes génitaux internes de la femme''. Paris, Vve. A. Delahaye & Cie. 1878.Who Named It
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* 1816 births 1895 deaths People from Ploërmel French surgeons Scientists from Brittany {{France-med-bio-stub