Germanicus Mirault was a French surgeon who pioneered cleft lip surgery. He was born in Angers in 1796, on either 29 February or 1 March, into a family of surgeons: his father and grandfather both practised surgery, and his father specialised in ophthalmology. He began studying medicine under his father in 1814, then moved to Paris to continue his studies and presented his thesis on keratitis in 1823. Together with Joseph-François Malgaigne he introduced flap transposition for closing a cleft lip, work that Victor Veau later praised in 1935 by calling Mirault the genius of cleft lip surgery. He also made the first ligature of a human lingual artery in 1833 and pioneered a method of temporary occlusion of the eyelids when correcting a post-burn ectropion, a method still in use today. The Académie des Sciences rewarded his work on eyelid surgery in 1869. He died in Angers on 19 January 1879.
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was a French surgeon who pioneered cleft lip surgery.
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Germanicus Mirault was born in Angers on either 29 February or 1 March 1796
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Mirault died on 19 January 1879 in Angers.
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was a French surgeon who pioneered cleft lip surgery.
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He made other key contributions to maxillofacial surgical procedures
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