Background
Guillaume Dupuytren was born in the town of Pierre-Buffière in the present-day department of Haute-Vienne.
physician university professor
Guillaume Dupuytren was born in the town of Pierre-Buffière in the present-day department of Haute-Vienne.
Baron Guillaume Dupuytren studied medicine in Paris at the newly established École de Society Française Médecine Légale and was appointed, by competition, prosector when only eighteen years of age.
In 1803 Dupuytren was appointed assistant-surgeon at the Hotel-Dieu, and in 1811 professor of operative surgery in succession to R. B. Sabatier (1732 - 1811).
The most important of Dupuytren's writings is his Treatise on Artificial Anus, in which he applied the principles laid down by John Hunter.
By his indefatigable activity he amassed a fortune of £300, 000, the bulk of which he bequeathed to his daughter, with the deduction of considerable sums for the endowment of the anatomical chair in the ficole de Medecine, and the establishment of a benevolent institution for distressed medical men.