Henri Chaput
Victor Alexandre Henri Chaput (1857-1919) was a French Surgeon.
Proponent of lumbar anaesthetics using stovaine (epidural anaesthesia) in place of general anaesthesia for many surgical operations. At the forefront of surgical aseptic techniques advocating the use of sterile rubber gloves (Les gants de Chaput) during operations (1899)
French surgeon specialising in intestinal surgery. Eponymously affiliated with Tillaux-Chaput fracture (1907)
Biography
- Born Victor Alexandre Henri Chaput on November 17, 1857 at Bonnières, Somme
- 1885 – Medical doctorate, Paris. Thesis ‘Des fractures anciennes de la rotule‘
- 1888 – Surgeon at Hôpitaux Broussais, Boucicaut
- Died February 26, 1919 at home, 4 Cité Vaneau (Paris)
Medical Eponyms
Tillaux-Chaput fracture (1907)
Fracture of the anterolateral tibial epiphysis commonly seen in adolescents. (Salter-Harris III tibial fracture). Usually associated with forced lateral rotation of the foot or medial rotation of the leg on a fixed foot. This rotational injury results in avulsion of the anterior tibiofibular ligament at the lateral epiphysis. Often misdiagnosed as a simple sprain in adolescents.
Chaput was the first to demonstrate a roentgenogram of a fracture in the dorsal lip of the tibia. He suggested that it was frequently observed as a complication of malleolar fractures. [Les fractures malléolaires du cou-de-pied et les accidents du travail – 1907]. He subsequently he observed it 42 times in 136 fractures of the ankle. [De la reduction des fractures malléolaires compliquées de luxation du pied – 1913]
Chaput tubercle
Insertion site of anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament (AITFL) on the anterolateral portion of the tibia
Les gants de Chaput
Surgical gloves impermeable and autoclave sterilizable (designed by Terrilon 1899). Presented to surgical society 1901. Designed to enhance aseptic technique rather than the gloves presented by William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922) in 1889, which were primarily for dermal protection
Controversies
Darte of birth and death
Original
English
Le vingt-six février mil neuf cent dix neuf à neuf heures du matin est décédé en son domicile 4 Cité Vaneau, Victor Alexandre Henri Chaput, chirurgien chef de service à l’Hôpital Lariboisière, chevalier de la Légion d’honneur ; né à Bonnières (Somme) le dix sept novembre mil huit cent cinquante sept ; fils de Paul Théodore Chaput et de Clémence Cailler, époux décédés ; veuf de Anne Marie Lucie Jandrique. Dressé le vingt-huit février mil neuf cent dix neuf, trois heures un quart du soir, sur la déclaration de Julien L’Horte, quarante ans, et de Philippe Lafont, trente et un ans, employés, domiciliés 105 rue de Grenelle, qui lecture faite ont signé avec nous Paul Auguste Caurin [nom à confirmer], adjoint au maire du septième arrondissement de Paris.
On February 26, 1919, at 9:00 a.m., Victor Alexandre Henri Chaput, chief surgeon at Lariboisière Hospital, Knight of the Legion of Honor, died at his home at 4 Cité Vaneau. He was born in Bonnières (Somme) on the 17th. November 1857; son of Paul Théodore Chaput and Clémence Cailler, deceased spouses; widower of Anne Marie Lucie Jandrique. Drawn up on the 28th of February 1919, at 3:15 PM, on the declaration of Julien L’Horte, 40 years old, and Philippe Lafont, 31 years old, employees, residing at 105 rue de Grenelle, who, after the document was read, signed with us, Paul Auguste Caurin [name to be confirmed], deputy mayor of the seventh arrondissement of Paris. | Archives de Paris; Paris, France; État-Civil 1792-1902
Major Publications
- Chaput H. Des fractures anciennes de la rotule : anatomie et physiologie pathologiques : pronostic et traitement: thèse pour le doctorat en médecine présentée et soutenue le 7 novembre 1885 à la Faculté de médecine de Paris
- Terrillon O, Chaput H. Asepsie et antisepsie chirurgicales. [Surgical asepsis and antisepsis.] Paris: Octave Doin 1893
- Chaput H. Des fractures anciennes de la rotule: anatomie et physiologie pathologiques pronostic et traitement. Theses 1885-1886. No. 14.
- Chaput H. Thérapeutique chirurgicale des affections de l’intestin, du rectum et péritoine. 1896
- Chaput H. Traitement du cancer du rectum. 1901
- Chaput H. Les gants de caoutchouc créés en 1899. La Presse Médicale 1906; 24 : 189-190
- Chaput H. Les fractures malléolaires du cou-de-pied et les accidents du travail. [Malleolar instep fractures and occupational injuries] Paris, Masson. 1907
- Chaput H. De la reduction des fractures malléolaires compliquées de luxation du pied. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société de Chirurgie de Paris. 1913; 39: 656-663
References
Biography
- Victor Alexandre Henri Chaput. Archives de Paris; Paris, France; État-Civil 1792-1902
- Faure J-L. H. Chaput (1857-1919) La Presse médicale. 1919; 13: 145-146
- Mouchet A. Henri Chaput (1857-1919). Paris médical : la semaine du clinicien 1919; 32: 119
- La fin tragique de Henri Chaput (1857-1919)
- Bibliography. Chaput, Henri 1857-1919. WorldCat Identities
Eponymous terms
- Germain MA. L’épopée des gants chirurgicaux [The advent of surgical gloves]. Annales de chirurgie Volume 128, n° 7 pages 475-480 (septembre 2003)
- Eponymythology: Eponymous Foot, ankle and talus injuries. LITFL
Eponym
the person behind the name
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