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Pare, Ambroise (sh)




born 1510, Bourg-Hersent, France
died Dec. 20, 1590, Paris

French physician and surgeon.

Employed as an army surgeon in 1537, Pare preferred measures less drastic than those of other surgeons at the time (whose techniques included castration in hernia surgery and searing large arteries with hot irons during amputation) and operated only when necessary. He introduced the implantation of gold and silver teeth, artificial limbs, and artificial eyes (see prosthesis) and invented many instruments, popularized the truss for hernias, and first suggested that syphilis caused aneurysms. He published books on a wide variety of medical matters; his surgical works were especially influential.