Just Lucas-Championnière, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French physician
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Place of Birth: Avilly-Saint-Léonard, Hauts-de-France, France
About Just Lucas-Championnière
- Just-Marie-Marcellin Lucas-Championnière (15 August 1843, in Avilly-Saint-Léonard – 22 October 1913, in Paris) was a French surgeon. From 1860 he studied medicine in Paris, receiving his medical doctorate in 1870 and his agrégation in 1874.
- In 1874 he qualified as a hospital surgeon, and during his career was associated with the hospitals Cochin, Lariboisière, Tenon, Saint-Louis, Beaujon and Hôtel-Dieu in Paris.
- In 1906 he retired as a hospital surgeon.While still a student, he traveled to Glasgow in order to study antisepsis under Joseph Lister.
- Subsequently, he introduced antiseptic surgery to France, publishing an important work on the subject in 1876 that was later translated into English.
- He also made significant contributions in his work involving bone fractures and hernias.
- In his research of trepanation, he showed that prehistoric flint tools could make trephine holes in a skull in less than 50 minutes.In 1885 he became a member of the Académie de Médecine.
- For a number of years he was editor of the Journal de médecine et de chirurgie pratiques.
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| Description | French | ||
| Work period | between 1909 and 1937 | ||
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