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Émile Forgue

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Émile Forgue
Born(1860-12-29)29 December 1860
Died1 February 1943(1943-02-01) (aged 82)
NationalityFrench

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

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  • 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]

References

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  1. ^ a b Most widely held works by Emile Auguste Forgue WorldCat Identities
  2. ^ Émile Forgue (1860-1943) data.bnf.fr.
  3. ^ Forgue, Émile Auguste Sociétés savantes de France
  4. ^ Proca, E; Dinu, P; Zamfir, V; Lucan, M (1979). "[A surgical technic deserving reconsideration for closure of vesicovaginal fistulas: the Dittel-Forgue-Legueu operation]". Rev Chir Oncol Radiol O R L Oftalmol Stomatol Chir. 28 (2): 103–10. PMID 461866.
  5. ^ Most widely held works by Emile Forgue WorldCat Identities