What are some french contribuions to medicine?!
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France underwent great political, social, economic, and educational changes after the French Revolution (1789). Many prominent French doctors and scholars appeared during this period. They made great contributions to medicine and enabled true clinical medicine to develop.
Guillaume Dupuytren played an important role in the organization of the medical-surgical establishment and, as chief surgeon at the Hotel-Dieu, he obtained a reputation as the greatest surgeon in Europe.
He also made the Hotel-Dieu the foremost teaching hospital in France. Dupuytren's name has survived as the eponym of a particular flexion contracture of the hand which Dupuytren described meticulously and devised treatment.
Dupuytren contracture is an interesting and challenging condition that has continued to attract hand surgeons. One hundred sixty-seven patients with Dupuytren contracture have been treated at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine. Surgery was carried out on 131 hands of 108 patients. Satisfactory results were obtained in 78% of the cases. Risk factors of surgical treatment for Dupuytren contracture were analyzed. Various complications of surgical treatment were reviewed. Important technical points and principles in surgery for Dupuytren contracture were described