Alphonse François Marie Guérin was a French surgeon, a native of Ploërmel, born on 9 August 1816 and dying on 21 February 1895. He studied medicine in Paris and in 1850 became a surgeon of the Parisian hospitals, practising surgery at the Lourcine, Cochin, Saint-Louis and Hôtel-Dieu hospitals. In 1868 he was made a member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine. In 1870 Guérin introduced the use of cotton-wool bandages to prevent infection of wounds, an early step in the dressing methods that grew into modern antiseptic and aseptic practice. He also described a horizontal fracture of the upper jaw lying just above the teeth and the palate, which is known today as the Le Fort I fracture and sometimes as the Guérin fracture, so his name survives in the vocabulary of facial trauma surgery.
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was a French surgeon who was a native of Ploërmel
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Guérin introduced the practice of using cotton-wool bandages for prevention of wound infections
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was a French surgeon
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