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Francois Gigot de la Peyronie

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Occupation
  
surgeon

Role
  
Surgeon

Name
  
Francois de

Known for
  
Peyronie's disease

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Born
  
15 January 1678 (
1678-01-15
)
Montpellier, France.

Died
  
April 25, 1747, Versailles, France

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Francois Gigot de la Peyronie ([fʁɑ̃swa ʒiɡod la peʁoni]; 15 January 1678 – 25 April 1747) was a French surgeon who was born in Montpellier, France. His name is associated with a condition known as Peyronie's disease.

As a teenager he studied philosophy and surgery in Montpellier, where in 1695 he received his diploma as a barber-surgeon. He continued his education in Paris as a student of Georges Mareschal (1658–1736), who was chief-surgeon at the Hopital de la Charite. Afterwards he returned to Montpellier as lecturer on anatomy and surgery, and was surgeon-major at the Hotel-Dieu de Montpellier. In 1714 Peyronie returned to Paris, where he was appointed surgeon-major at the Hopital de la Charite. In Paris he also taught anatomy at the Jardin du Roi and at the amphitheatre of Saint-Come.

In 1736, after the death of Mareschal, he became first-surgeon to King Louis XV. He took interest in the medical educational system, and was instrumental in reorganization of surgical schools. He was a major factor regarding the creation of a 1743 law that banned barbers from practicing surgery. With Georges Mareschal, he founded the Academie Royale de Chirurgie (1731), and was its chairman from 1736 to 1747. At Montpellier, Peyronie donated the money for construction of an amphitheatre based on the College Saint-Come de Paris. In 1752 construction began, and in 1757 the grand opening of the Hotel Saint-Come de Montpellier took place.

In 1743 Peyronie described a disorder characterized by induration of the corpora cavernosa of the penis. This condition is now referred to as Peyronie's disease.

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