Émile Forgue Explained
Émile Auguste Forgue (29 December 1860 - 1 February 1943) was a French surgeon.
In 1893 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Montpellier with the thesis Distribution des racines motrices dans les muscles des membres.[1] In 1896 he obtained his agrégation for surgery, and later on, became a professor of operative medicine (1891–1930) and clinical surgery (from 1895) at Montpellier. In 1899 he became a correspondent member of the Académie de Médecine. In 1924 he was appointed director of the Centre anticancéreux de Montpellier.[2] [3]
With urologists Leopold Ritter von Dittel and Felix Legueu, the "Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation" is named, a procedure used for closure of vesicovaginal fistulae.[4]
Selected works
- Traité de thérapeutique chirurgicale, 1892 (with Paul Reclus) - Treatise of surgical therapy.
- Guide pratique du médecin dans les accidents du travail, suites médicales et judiciaires, 1905 - Practical guide for the physician in regards to occupational accidents, medical and legal actions.
- Le diverticule de Meckel (appendice de l'iléon) son rôle dans la pathologie et la thérapeutique abdominales, 1907 - Meckel's diverticulum (appendice of the ileum) its role in pathology and abdominal therapy.
- Précis de pathologie externe, 1908 - Specifics of external pathology.
- Gynécologie, 1916 - Gynaecology.
- Théophraste Renaudot, créateur du journalisme en France : une grande figure de l'école médicale de Montpellier, 1927 - Théophraste Renaudot, creator of journalism in France: a great figure of the medical school of Montpellier.
- La rachianesthésie, sa valeur et sa place actuelle dans la pratique, 1930 - Spinal anaesthesia, its value and its present place in practice.
- Précis d'anesthésie chirurgicale; anesthésies générale, rachidienne, locale, 1934 - Precise surgical anesthesia; general anesthesia, spinal, local.
- Les pestiférés de Saint-Jean d'Acre et de Jaffa : un épisode de la vie de Desgenettes : expédition d'Egypte, 1938 - The plague of Saint-Jean d'Acre and Jaffa: an episode in the life of René-Nicolas Dufriche Desgenettes: Egyptian expedition.
- Les "pièges" de la chirurgie en diagnostic et thérapeutique; erreurs et fautes ou faits présumés tels, conditions et limites de la responsabilité, 1939 - The caveats of diagnostic and therapeutic surgery; errors, mistakes or presumptions, conditions and limits of liability.[1] [5]
Notes and References
- http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-forgue,%20emile%20auguste/ Most widely held works by Emile Auguste Forgue
- http://data.bnf.fr/10434445/emile_forgue/ Émile Forgue (1860-1943)
- http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=119105 Forgue, Émile Auguste
- 461866 . 28 . [A surgical technic deserving reconsideration for closure of vesicovaginal fistulas: the Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation] . 1979 . Rev Chir Oncol Radiol O R L Oftalmol Stomatol Chir . 103–10 . Proca . E . Dinu . P . Zamfir . V . Lucan . M. 2 .
- http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2015189569/ Most widely held works by Emile Forgue
