Octave Roch Simon Terrillon (17 May 1844, Oigny-sur-Seine – 22 December 1895,

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) was a French physician and

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, known as a pioneer of

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. From 1868 he worked as a hospital interne in Paris, where in 1873 he received his medical doctorate. In 1876 he qualified as a hospital surgeon, and eventually became associated with the Salpêtrière Hospital. In 1878 he became an associate professor at the faculty of medicine in Paris. On April 13, 1957, a French

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featuring a portrait of Dr. Terrillon was issued. Included on the stamp were images of a microscope, an autoclave and some surgical instruments. Somewhere around 1882 he advocated the procedure of using boiling water, a heat sterilisation technique for disinfecting surgical instruments.

Selected works

* ''Leçons de clinique chirurgicale professées à la Salpêtrière'', 1889 – Lessons taught in the surgical clinic at the Salpêtrière. * ''Traité des maladies du testicule et de ses annexes'' (with Charles Monod), 1889 – Treatise on testicular diseases. * ''Asepsie et antisepsie chirurgicales'' (with

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), 1894 – Surgical asepsis and

antisepsis An antiseptic (from Greek ἀντί ''anti'', "against" and σηπτικός ''sēptikos'', "putrefactive") is an antimicrobial substance or compound that is applied to living tissue/skin to reduce the possibility of infection, sepsis, or putre ...

. * ''Salpingites et ovarites'', 1891 –

Salpingitis Salpingitis is an infection causing inflammation in the Fallopian tubes (also called ''salpinges''). It is often included in the umbrella term of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), along with endometritis, oophoritis, myometritis, parametritis, ...

and ovaritis.Most widely held works by Octave Roch Simon Terrillon
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Terrillon, Octave 1844 births 1895 deaths Academic staff of the University of Paris People from Côte-d'Or French surgeons