Mathieu Jaboulay

Mathieu Jaboulay, who lived from 5 July 1860 to 4 November 1913, was a French surgeon born in Saint-Genis-Laval in the department of Rhone. He studied and practiced medicine in Lyon, where he became a professor of clinical surgery in 1902, and two of his better known students there were Alexis Carrel and Rene Leriche. He is remembered for introducing new surgical procedures and for his work on techniques of vascular anastomosis, including an arterial anastomosis method that bears his name. In 1892 he introduced the side-to-side gastroduodenostomy, and in 1894 he performed the first inter-ilio abdominal amputation, or hemipelvectomy, sometimes called Jaboulay's amputation. He is credited with the first sympathectomy operation for relieving vascular disease, described in his treatise on the surgery of the sympathetic system and thyroid gland. In 1906 he made the first attempts at human kidney transplantation, grafting pig and goat kidneys into patients with chronic kidney failure; the operations were unsuccessful.