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As a special master of trepanation, the surgeon Roger FRUGARDI from Salerno proved in the second half of the 12th century. He had developed a method of sawing his patients out of the skull with great precision. His work "Practica chirurgiae", published around 1180, set new standards for the guild.
Until the invention of the spherical drill by DOYEN in 1895 the Krontrepan remained in use. "Trepan à cliquet" resp. "vilebrequin" with ball-mill after Eugène-Louis DOYEN (1859-1916).
About the person of DOYEN
Born in Reims in December 1859, the son of the mayor of the city, he rose to star among the French surgeons of his time - so it was that in 1914 he was called to the deathbed of the President of the Republic Jean Jaurès (where he unfortunately nothing more could - double headshot, rib cage shot). Skillfully he used the possibilities of a young industry: the film. Too many surgical films were created under his guidance - unfortunately, most were lost. On July 29, 1889, he performed a first film at a convention in Edinburgh (a film showed an operating table of his invention, a second showed a hysterectomy, a third a craniotomy). In France, the first surgical film (despite negative decisions by the "Academie de médecine" and the "Congrès de chirurgie de Paris") on 21 October d.J. demonstrated. There was a lot of commotion around a film showing the separation of Siamese twins. Performed on two entertaining twins of the circus Barnum & Baley, without any hygienic precautions, without a mask, without sterile gloves, this production leads to the conclusion that DOYEN wanted to put themselves in the limelight above all else. The situation was exacerbated by the fact that the film landed on fairgrounds - a total blow to the surgeon's reputation. The questionable transplantation of cancer tissue into a contralateral, healthy mammary gland by DOYEN also provided legitimate criticism among his colleagues, who had no sensus for this type of immunological therapy.
No less tumultuous was the surgeon's private life. His first marriage, concluded in 1884 in Tagnon / Ardennes with Lucie Drumel (1863-1938), was divorced despite three children. In 1907 he married, after several scandals with light girls of the metropolis, the actress Andrée Laure Suzanne Marconnier.
DOYEN died in Paris on 21.11.1916 and was buried at the Père-Lachaise cemetery (he was a freemason and freethinker), his first wife is buried in Tagnon with her children.
Indications of trepanation
"Hollerich, June 22. Last night, the worker Debras from Hollerich was hit in the local steelworks by a falling slag on the head, and the unfortunate was transported to the clinic at the fish market, where this morning a cranial operation was carried out, which went well However, not all Gefabr has been eliminated yet: Debras is married and the father of a child "(LW of 22.6.1906).
A forgotten indication is aneclamic seizures during pregnancy: According to Wilhelm ZANGEMEISTER (1871-1930), the trepanation in eclampsia can be life-saving!
Exhibit
Crank drill by Fred HASLAM in New York, Boring mill by Vincenz MULLER in Chicago
Origin: Ebay, import from the USA
Link
www.stethonet.org/vpub/doyen/doyen.htm
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