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Octave Terrillon

French physician and surgeon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Octave Terrillon
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Octave Roch Simon Terrillon (17 May 1844, Oigny-sur-Seine 22 December 1895, Paris) was a French physician and surgeon, known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery.

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Octave Roch Simon Terrillon

From 1868 he worked as a hospital interne in Paris, where in 1873 he received his medical doctorate. In 1876 he qualified as a hospital surgeon, and eventually became associated with the Salpêtrière Hospital. In 1878 he became an associate professor at the faculty of medicine in Paris.[1][2]

On April 13, 1957, a French postage stamp featuring a portrait of Dr. Terrillon was issued. Included on the stamp were images of a microscope, an autoclave and some surgical instruments.[3] Somewhere around 1882 he advocated the procedure of using boiling water, a heat sterilisation technique for disinfecting surgical instruments.[4]

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Selected works

  • Leçons de clinique chirurgicale professées à la Salpêtrière, 1889 Lessons taught in the surgical clinic at the Salpêtrière.
  • Traité des maladies du testicule et de ses annexes (with Charles Monod), 1889 Treatise on testicular diseases.
  • Asepsie et antisepsie chirurgicales (with Henri Chaput), 1894 Surgical asepsis and antisepsis.
  • Salpingites et ovarites, 1891 Salpingitis and ovaritis.[5]

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