Guy de Chauliac

Guy de Chauliac (c. 1298 Chaulhac, Lozère, † 1368 ), also known as Guido ( de Chauliac ) was one of the most important physicians of his time.

To his childhood entwined legends. Medical studies led him to the most important universities of his time, among other things, to Montpellier, Paris and Bologna. He was a student of Henri de Mondeville and acquired in 1325 the medical master's degree. After completing his apprenticeship he worked as a traveling doctor traveling throughout Europe, which he was about the time a celebrity in particular for eye diseases.

Chauliac narrated numerous surgical techniques, among other things, on the resignation of the Stares. He wrote his own textbook that Chirurgia Magna, the most comprehensive compendium of all the medical knowledge of his time. Having survived the Great Plague of 1347 and following, he also wrote about fonts. 1363, he described the use of opium and mandragora for pain relief in surgery. French and German nobles sought his advice, for example, John of Luxembourg, which was later called the blind man.

Guy de Chauliac was personal physician to three popes: Clement V, Clement VI. and Innocent VI. (?). Thus he had access to the most important libraries in Europe.

Guy de Chauliac died in 1368.

Sources and Literature

• Guy de Chauliac ( Author), Laurent Joubert (ed.): Chirurgia magna Guidonis de Gauliaco. University Press, Darmstadt 1976, ISBN 3-534-04873-3 ( Nachdr d Ed Lyon in 1585, edited by Gundolf wedge).
• Edouard Nicaise (ed. ): La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac, chirurgien, maître de l' université de médicine de Montpellier, composée en l'an 1363 ( " Chirurgia magna "). Éditions Alcan, Paris, 1890.
• Volker Zimmermann: The medieval fracture treatment in the work of Lanfranc and Guy de Chauliac. In Wurzburg medical history Releases, Vol 6 (1988 ), pp. 21-34, ISSN 0177-5227.
• Michael McVaugh (Editor) Guy de Chauliac: Inventarium immersive Chirurgia magna, Leiden: Brill 1997