Background
Péan was born in 1830 in France.
Péan was born in 1830 in France.
He studied at the college of Chartres and then studied medicine in Paris under Auguste Nélaton.
He was appointed a doctor in 1861 and worked at Street Antoine and Street Louis up to 1893. He then created with its expenses the international hospital. He wrote two volumes of private clinics (1876 and 1890).
He was elected to the French Académie Nationale de Society Française Médecine Légale on November 22, 1887, and was awarded the rank of Commander of Legion of Honor in 1893.
He died on January 20, 1898 in Paris. A street, Rue Péan, in Châteaudun was named after him.
He refused to dissect corpses and operated preferably in residence. Although a teacher, he was never named professor
He was the first to make a successful surgical ablation of one cyst of the ovary in 1864.
He was also a pioneer in performing a vaginal hysterectomy for carcinoma in 1890. He is believed to have performed the first surgery to correct diverticula of the bladder in 1895. In 1893, he attempted the first known total joint arthroplasty, implanting in the shoulder of a French waiter in 1893.
lieutenant had to be removed two years later due to infection.
He popularized the hemostat that still used in operating rooms around the world.
Académie Nationale de Society Française Médecine Légale.
