Jean Pitard

Jean Pitard (born ~1228 near Bayeux, France,[1] died in Paris at age 87, in ~1315) was the royal surgeon to Louis IX, Philip the Bold and Philip the Fair of France. At his request, in 1270 Louis IX created the Fraternity of St. Cosmas and St. Damian,[2] which defined and organized the profession of surgeons in France.[3][4]

Pitard received his training as an apprentice and did not receive any university training, as a result he was not encumbered by many of the medical and anatomical theories of his contemporaries.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Frédéric Pluquet, Essai historique sur la ville de Bayeux et son arrondissement, T. Chalopin, Caen, 1829, p.423 at Google Books
  2. ↑ Confrérie de Saint-Côme et de Saint-Damien
  3. ↑ Gourdol, Jean-Yves. "Portraits de Médecins: Histoire des chirurgiens, des barbiers et des barbiers-chirurgiens (History of Surgeons, Barbers and Barber-surgeons)" (in French). Medarus.
  4. ↑ Gründer, Johann W. Ludwig (1859). Geschichte der Chirurgie, von den Urzeiten bis zu Anfang des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts (in German). Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland): Trewendt et Granier. p. 154. OCLC 6318037.
  5. ↑ Bullough, Vern L. (1959). "Training of the Nonuniversity-Educated Medical Practitioners in the Later Middle Ages". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 14 (10): 446–458. doi:10.1093/jhmas/XIV.10.446.
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