Auguste Bérard (1 August 1802 in Varrains – 16 October 1846 in Paris) was a French

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. He was the brother of physician Pierre Honoré Bérard (1797–1858). He is not to be confused with the French naval officer of the same name (1796–1852), after whom the '' Berardius'' beaked whales are named. He studied medicine in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1829 with the thesis '' De la luxation spontanée de l’occipital sur l’atlas et de l’atlas sur l’axis''. Later he worked as a surgeon at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine, the Salpêtrière, Hôpital Necker and

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. In 1842 he succeeded Louis Joseph Sanson (1790–1841) as professor of clinical surgery to the Paris faculty. His surgical contributions involved treatment of fractures, staphylorrhaphy (surgical repair of a

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), continuous wound irrigation, etc. With

Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers (4 February 1808 – 5 July 1872) was a French surgeon who was a native of Paris. In 1837 he received his medical doctorate, and later was a professor of surgery and anatomy in Paris. Denonvilliers was a pioneer of f ...

(1808–1872), he was co-author of the highly acclaimed ''Compendium de chirurgie pratique'', of which only part of the work had been issued prior to Bérard's death. Among his other writings were numerous articles in the ''Dictionnaire de médecine''. In 1838 he became a member of the ''

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French surgeons Academic staff of the University of Paris 1802 births 1846 deaths People from Maine-et-Loire {{France-med-bio-stub