REF: 15993

Dr. Lisfranc asks Dupuytren to take in two of his students

Jacques Lisfranc de Saint-Martin (Saint-Paul-en-Jarez, 1790/1847)
A surgeon specializing in amputations. He served in the Saxon campaign and developed the disarticulation technique that would bear his name.

Document type: Autographed signed letter

Number of documents: 1 - Number of pages: 1 - Format: In-4

Location: Paris

Date: December 26, 1819

Recipient: Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835), anatomist and surgeon

Condition: Creases; period ink stains

Description :

Lisfranc approached Dupuytren for two of his students; he himself had been his student in Paris and had received his medical degree six years earlier, in 1813.

"My dear master,

Messrs. Davillard and Sena, who will deliver this letter to you, are the two young men I had the honor of mentioning to you yesterday. Allow me to remind you that you were kind enough to promise to include them among your externs [...]".

Address on the back

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