Alphonse Guérin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alphonse Guérin

French surgeon

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1816

Place of Birth: Ploërmel, Brittany, France

Date of Death: 21-Feb-1895

Profession: surgeon

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Alphonse François Marie Guérin (French pronunciation: ?[alf?~s f??~swa ma?i ge??~]; August 9, 1816 – February 21, 1895) was a French surgeon who was a native of Ploërmel. He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1850 became a surgeon of Parisian hospitals.
During his career, he practiced surgery at the Lourcine, Cochin, Hôpital Saint-Louis and Hôtel-Dieu.
In 1868 he became a member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine. In 1870, Guérin introduced the practice of using cotton-wool bandages for prevention of wound infections.
He described a horizontal fracture of the maxilla immediately above the teeth and palate, that is known today as a "Le Fort I fracture", or sometimes as a "Guérin fracture".