Simon-Emmanuel Duplay

Simon-Emmanuel Duplay was a French surgeon, born in Paris on 10 September 1836 and dying on 16 January 1924, who became a member of the Académie de Médecine in 1879. He took his agrégation for surgery in 1866 with a thesis on umbilical hernias, was appointed surgeon to the Bureau central in 1867, and later worked at the Hôpital de Lourcine and the Hôpital Saint-Antoine. He became professor of surgical pathology in 1880 and professor of clinical surgery in 1890. In the late nineteenth century he gave a comprehensive description of periarthritis of the shoulder, today called frozen shoulder and sometimes Duplay's disease. His name is also tied to the Thiersch-Duplay technique for repairing distal hypospadias, and he is credited with creating a nasal speculum.