Claude Puto (August 14, 1725, Lyon - February 10, 1775) - French surgeon and medical writer.
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Biography
Claude Puto was born into the family of a surgeon, from whom he received an initial medical education, then studied medicine in Paris. After receiving a degree in medicine, he returned to his native Lyon. He worked as a surgeon at the Hotel Hospital in Lyon, soon becoming the chief surgeon and replacing Grasso.
He was a supporter of the disinfection of surgical instruments and dressings, arguing that the infection in hospitals is transmitted primarily through them, and not by airborne droplets. As a doctor, he dealt with issues of oncology, rheumatism, burns, rickets, lung diseases, and the study of the properties of skin pores. He was the first to discover a method for treating lacrimal fistula and the first to describe a fracture of the distal radial bone with posterior displacement (however, his scientific description was completed by Abraham Colle, who was named after this fracture).
He was elected a member of the Lyon Academy. He died from a blow to the head in an accidental fall. In his honor, near the hospital in which he worked, a bust of the sculptor Jean-Leander Héral was installed. The main works: "Melanges de chirurgie" (Lyon, 1760); Essai sur la rage (1763), Oeuvres posthumes (Paris, 1783) [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Puto, Claude // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
- Biography (Fr.)