Alfred Auvard

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Alfred Auvard
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Born8 August 1855  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Segonzac   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Died1940  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (aged 84–85)
Awards
  • Knight of the Legion of Honour (1895)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Academic career
Academic advisor Étienne Stéphane Tarnier

Alfred Auvard ; (Pierre-Victor Alfred Auvard) 8 August 1855 – 1940) was a French obstetrician and gynecologist born in the department of Corrèze.

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He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1879 became interne des hôpitaux. [1] In 1882 he furthered his studies in Germany (Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin), and in 1884 received his doctorate with a thesis titled De la pince à os et du cranioclaste. Later he maintained a private OB/GYN clinic in Paris.

During the 1880s, he introduced the "Auvard couveuse", an inexpensive incubator that became widely popular in the latter part of the 19th century. [2] [3] Other eponyms in the field of obstetrics that bear his name are: "Auvard maneuver" - a procedure for extraction of the placenta; "Auvard's vaginal speculum", and "Auvard's basiotribe" - an instrument that is a combination of a craniotomy forceps and a cranioclast.

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References

  1. Nouveau Larousse illustré : dictionnaire universel encycloedique, 1906 via Internet Archives Books
  2. meisterdrucke.uk, Child incubator by Dr. Alfred Auvard (1855-1940)
  3. The Embryo Project Encyclopedia, The Infant Incubator in Europe (1860-1890) by Kelsy Rebovich, 02 November, 2017,