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See also:BOYER, See also:ALEXIS (1757-1833) , See also:French surgeon, was See also:born on the 1st of See also:March 1757 at Uzerches (See also:Correze). The son of a tailor, he obtained his first medical knowledge in the See also:shop of a See also:barber-surgeon. Removing to See also:Paris he had the See also:good See also:fortune to attract the See also:notice of See also:Antoine See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis (1723-1792) and P. J. See also:Desault (1744-1795); and his perseverance, anatomical skill and dexterity as an operator, became so conspicuous, that at the See also:age of See also:thirty-seven he obtained the See also:appointment of second surgeon to the Hotel Dieu of Paris. On the See also:establishment of the 1cole de Saute he gained the See also:chair of operative See also:surgery, but soon exchanged it for the chair of clinical surgery. In 18os See also:Napoleon nominated him imperial See also:family surgeon, and, after the brilliant See also:campaigns of 1806-7, conferred on him the See also:legion of See also:honour, with the See also:title of See also:baron of the See also:empire and a See also:salary of 25,000 francs. On the fall of Napoleon the merits of Boyer secured him the favour of the succeeding sovereigns of See also:France, and he was consulting surgeon to Louis XVIII., See also:Charles X., and Louis Philippe. In 1825 he succeeded J. F. L. See also:Deschamps (1740-1824) as surgeonin-See also:chief to the HOpital de la Charite, and was chosen a member ofthe See also:Institute.
He died in Paris on the 23rd of See also:November 1833. Perhaps no French surgeon of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time thought or wrote with greater clearness and good sense than Boyer; and while his natural modesty made him distrustful of innovation, and somewhat tenacious of established modes of treatment, he was as judicious in his diagnosis and as cool and skilful in manipulating, as he was cautious in forming his See also:judgment on individual cases. His two See also:great See also:works are:—Traite complet de l'anatomie (in 4 vols., 1797-1799), of which a See also:fourth edition appeared in 1815, and Traite See also:des maladies chirurgicales et des operations qui leur conviennent (in 11 vols., 1814-1826), of which a new edition in 7 vols. was published in 1844-1853, with additions by his son, Philippe Boyer (18o1-1858).
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