Jules Germain Cloquet / [W.J. Bishop].

  • William John Bishop
Date:
1954
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Credit: Jules Germain Cloquet / [W.J. Bishop]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Plate 46 from Cloquet's Atlas du Manuel d’Anatomie Descriptive 1836. Lithograph by Feillet. turned towards a military career and he entered the army medical school at Val-de-Grace but had to leave owing to a breakdown in health. After some months’ rest he again took up the study of medicine, and his inherited talent for drawing and modelling led to his being ap¬ pointed a preparer of anatomical models at the Paris Faculty. In 1815 he was made prosector and by this time his teaching ability and gifted pencil were attracting many pupils. As a poor student he was allowed to take his M.D. degree in 1817 without paying the customary fees. His thesis, entitled Recherches Anatomiques sur les Hernies de VAbdomen, was based on the dissection, drawing, and description of 340 cases of hernia of all types. Two years later he published his Recherches Pathologiques sur les Causes et VAnatomie des Hernies Abdominales. In 1819 Cloquet was appointed surgeon to the Hopital Saint-Louis, and in 1821 he was elected a member of the Academy of Medicine. Between 1821 and 1830 he published his
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