GUILLEMEAU, Jacques (1550 – 1613)
1550 – 1613
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1585 CE
#5818
Traité des maladies de l’oeil.
The first French work on ophthalmology. Guillemeau was a pupil and son-in-law of Ambroise Paré; his book was an epitome of the existing knowledge on the subject, chiefly from Greek and Arabian sources. English …
1594 CE
#3669
La chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens.
Guillemeau was Paré’s son-in-law. His splendidly illustrated work is of special importance for dentistry and for surgery for cleft lip. It describes pyorrhea alveolaris for the first time and is also the …
1609 CE
#6145.1
De l’heureux accouchement des femmes.
Actual origin of the so–called “Mauriceau” manoeuvre, usually credited to Mauriceau (No. 6147). Guillemeau was not only responsible for this technique for delivery of the after coming head so importa…