Guillaume Dupuytren, Baron (October 5, 1777 - February 8, 1835) was a French anatomist and military surgeon. Although he gained much esteem for treating Napoleon Bonaparte's piles, he is best known for the Dupuytren's contracture named after him and which he described in 1831.
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Dupuytren was not an original investigator in surgical subjects, but he was an excellent observer and a great worker, who knew how to adopt and adapt others' ideas very practically. www.newadvent.org/cathen/05206a.htm