Baron Guillaume Dupuytren (October 5, 1777 - February 8, 1835) was a French anatomist and military surgeon. Although he gained much esteem for treatin
Baron Guillaume Dupuytren (October 5, 1777 - February 8, 1835) was a French anatomist and military surgeon. Although he gained much esteem for treating Napoleon Bonaparte's hemorrhoids, he is best known today for his description of Dupuytren's contracture which is named after him and which he first operated on in 1831 and published in The Lancet in 1834. Dupuytren was one of the first surgeons to successfully drain a brain abscess using trepanation, in which a hole is cut in the skull, and he also used the method to treat seizures. He was a brilliant teacher, an astute diagnostician and a gifted surgeon. In his operations he was remarkable for his skill and dexterity, and for his great readiness of resource. He died in 1835 at the age of 57.
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