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    Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax. 1990 Jul 17;79(29-30):889-91.

    [The past and future of proctology].

    [Article in French]

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    Dép. de chirurgie, Hôpital cantonal universitaire de Genève.

    Abstract

    Since antiquity, surgical treatments of anorectal lesions were performed by barbers and surgeons; proctology became with time a surgical speciality well defined and recognized todays. History of proctology is illustrated by some important figures and events: St. Fiacre, Felix the surgeon who operated on King Louis XIV's fistula and the acutely thrombosed hemorrhoidal prolapse of Napoleon.

    PMID:
    2197703
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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