Ambroise Pare (1510 - December 20, 1590) was a French surgeon, anatomist and inventor. He was royal surgeon for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III and is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology. The 1585 edition of Pare's Oeuvres (Collected Works) represents the final summary of his life's work. It has over twelve hundred folio pages, with nearly four hundred illustrations drawing upon a lifetime of practice. Shown here are trephines; drills for boring holes in the skull. Prehistoric skulls have been discovered with evidence of trepanning, including unmistakable signs of healing to indicate that the patient had survived the procedure. In Pare's time, the procedure was used to relieve pressure within the skull or to remove damaged bone. | |
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