Guillaume Dupuytren 1777 - 1835
- occupation:
- Pathologist,
- Physician,
- Surgeon
- Nationality:
- French
- born in:
- Limousin, France
studied medicine at Ecole de Médicine; 1795 - appointed competition prosector of the faculty of medicine; 1803 - appointed assistant surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu; 1811-appointed professor of operative surgery; most important work - 'Treatise on Artifical Anus'; first to classify burns systematically. Invented a new lithotomy technique and instrument in 1812, interested in morbid anatomy