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Frère Jacques Beaulieu, OP (); 1651–1720), also known as Frère Jacques Baulot, was a travelling eMedicine - Bladder Stones : Article by Joseph Basler
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Frère Jacques Beaulieu, OP (); 1651–1720), also known as Frère Jacques Baulot, was a travelling lithotomist
Lithotomy from Greek for "lithos" (stone) and "tomos" (cut), is a surgical method for removal of calculi, stones formed inside certain organs, such as the urinary tract (kidney stones), bladder (bladder stones), and gallbladder (gallstones), tha ...
with scant knowledge of anatomy and was also a Dominican friar
A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the ol ...
. Beaulieu performed the frequently deadly procedure in France into the early 18th century.
The urologic community often claims Beaulieu is subject of the French nursery rhyme ''Frère Jacques
"Frère Jacques" (, ), also known in English as "Brother John", is a nursery rhyme of French origin. The rhyme is traditionally sung in a round.
The song is about a friar who has overslept and is urged to wake up and sound the bell for the mati ...
'' (also known in English as Brother John), but this is not well-established. A possible connection between ''Frère Jacques'' and Beaulieu, as claimed by Irvine Loudon
Irvine Loudon (1 August 1924 – 7 January 2015) was a British doctor and a medical historian on childbirth fever and maternal mortality.
Biography
Loudon was born in Cardiff on 1 August 1924. His father, Andrew Walker Buist Loudon was a genera ...
and many others, was explored by J. P. Ganem and C. C. Carson without finding any evidence for a connection.
Some have suggested that ''Frère Jacques'' was instead written to mock the Jacobin monks of France (Jacobins are what the Dominicans are called in Paris)./ref>
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