Édouard-Pierre-Marie Chassaignac (24 December 1804 – 26 August 1879) was a French physician.Dr Horteloup Éloge de M. Édouard-Pierre-Marie Chassaignac,... prononcé à la ... - 1882 He was born in

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and in 1835 became prosector and professor at the university and physician at the central bureau of the hospitals of Paris. He originated the surgical operation known as ''écrasement'', by means of which

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s, piles, polypi, and other growths may be removed without the effusion of blood. The general introduction of drainage in surgery is also due to his initiative. He introduced the use of drainage tubes into surgery.

Written works

He wrote ''Traité de l'écrasement linéaire'' (1856); ''Leçons sur la trachéométrie'' (1855); ''Clinique chirurgicale'' (1854–58); ''Traité pratique de la suppuration et du drainage chirurgical'' (two volumes, 1859). With Gustave-Antoine Richelot (1806-1893) he published a French translation of the surgical works of

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, ''Oeuvres chirurgicales complètes d’Astley Cooper''.

Terms

Chassaignac's tubercle — the strongly developed anterior tubercle of the transverse process of the sixth cervical vertebra: called also carotid tubercle. : Dorland's Medical Dictionary (1938)

References

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