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Principles of Rodent Surgery for the New Surgeon
Published on: January 6, 2011
[Military surgeon Henry Gabrielle (September 1887 - April 1968)]
Louis-Paul Fischer1, Thierry Jubeau
1Faculté de Médecine Grange Blanche, Laboratoire d'Anatomie, 8, avenue Rockefeller, 69008 Lyon.
Histoire Des Sciences Medicales
|May 29, 2007
Abstract:
As a military surgeon Henry Gabrielle had a heroic behaviour during the World War I. He was appointed professor of surgery at the hospital Val-de-Grâce in 1919 and in 1926 he became professor of anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine in Lyon. His action in the French Resistance was so significant that he was appointed Health Director of the Region Rhône Alpes. As president of the hospitals of Lyon from 1952 his role of organisation was important.