10.25384/SAGE.C.5120037.V1
Ulrich Tröhler
The French road to Gavarret’s clinical application of probabilistic thinking Part 2: Louis-Denis-Jules Gavarret
<p>In 1835, a statistical account of two treatments of bladder stone had been submitted for consideration by the <i>Académie des Sciences.</i> It compared the traditional extraction of the stone after cutting into the bladder to the innovative crushing of the stone by lithotripsy. A Commission of the Academy was charged with reporting to its members. It consisted of two elderly gentlemen, Napoleon’s legendary surgeon Dominique-Jean Larrey (b.1766) and the physician François Double (b.1776), and two comparatively younger members, Siméon Denis Poisson (b.1781), the mathematician, and the chemist Pierre-Louis Dulong (b.1785), now the Academy’s secretary.</p>
Medicine
SAGE Journals
2020
2020-09-13
2020-09-13
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10.1177/0141076820943413
10.25384/SAGE.c.5120037
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