François Gigot de la Peyronie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French surgeon
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Place of Birth: Montpellier, Occitania, France
About François Gigot de la Peyronie
- François Gigot de la Peyronie (pronounced [f??~swa ?igod la p???ni]; 15 January 1678 – 25 April 1747) was a French surgeon who was born in Montpellier, France.
- His name is associated with a condition known as Peyronie's disease. As a teenager he studied philosophy and surgery in Montpellier, where in 1695 he received his diploma as a barber-surgeon.
- He continued his education in Paris as a student of Georges Mareschal (1658–1736), who was chief-surgeon at the Hôpital de la Charité.
- Afterwards he returned to Montpellier as lecturer on anatomy and surgery, and was surgeon-major at the Hôtel-Dieu de Montpellier.
- In 1714 Peyronie returned to Paris, where he was appointed surgeon-major at the Hôpital de la Charité.
- In Paris he also taught anatomy at the Jardin du Roi and at the amphitheatre of Saint-Côme. In 1736, after the death of Mareschal, he became first-surgeon to King Louis XV.
- He took interest in the medical educational system, and was instrumental in reorganization of surgical schools.
- He was a major factor regarding the creation of a 1743 law that banned barbers from practicing surgery.
- With Georges Mareschal, he founded the Académie Royale de Chirurgie (1731), and was its chairman from 1736 to 1747.
- At Montpellier, Peyronie donated the money for construction of an amphitheatre based on the Collège Saint-Côme de Paris.
- In 1752 construction began, and in 1757 the grand opening of the Hotel Saint-Côme de Montpellier took place. In 1743 Peyronie described a disorder characterized by induration of the corpora cavernosa of the penis.
- This condition is now referred to as Peyronie's disease.
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Hyacinthe Rigaud
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Hyacinthe François Honoré Mathias Pierre André Jean Rigaud Hyacinthe Rigaud y Ros Hyacinthe Rigault | ||
| Description | French painter, professor, draughtsman and pastellist | ||
| Date of birth/death | 18 July 1659 / 1659 | 29 December 1743 | |
| Location of birth/death | Perpignan | Paris | |
| Work location | Perpignan (1669-1670), Lyon (1677-1681), Paris (1681-1743), Rome (1682), Perpignan (1695) | ||
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