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==Personalities Who Died from Gangrene== | |||
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| align="center" style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #E6E6FA; font-weight: bold" |Jean Baptiste Lully | | align="center" style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #E6E6FA; font-weight: bold" |Jean Baptiste Lully | ||
| align="center" style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #F5F5F5;" |[[Image:Jean_Baptiste_Lully.jpg|thumb|180px|center|Jean Baptiste Lully. <br> ('''Image courtesy of Wikipedia''')]] | | align="center" style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #F5F5F5;" |[[Image:Jean_Baptiste_Lully.jpg|thumb|180px|center|Jean Baptiste Lully. <br> ('''Image courtesy of Wikipedia''')]] | ||
| style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #F5F5F5;" |*French Baroque composer who had [[gangrene]] in January 1687 | | style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #F5F5F5;" | | ||
* French Baroque composer who had [[gangrene]] in January 1687 | |||
* While performing in his ''Te Deum'', he stabbed his toe with a pointed material, which caused the spread of [[infection]] in his leg. | |||
* He refused [[amputation]] of his leg. | |||
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| align="center" style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #E6E6FA; font-weight: bold" |French King Louis XIV | | align="center" style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #E6E6FA; font-weight: bold" |French King Louis XIV | ||
| align="center" style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #F5F5F5;" |[[Image:.jpg|thumb|180px|center|French King Louis XIV. <br> ('''Image courtesy of Wikipedia''')]] | | align="center" style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #F5F5F5;" |[[Image:.jpg|thumb|180px|center|French King Louis XIV. <br> ('''Image courtesy of Wikipedia''')|link=Special:FilePath/.jpg]] | ||
| style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #F5F5F5;" |[[died]] due to [[gangrene]] on September 1, 1715. | | style="padding: 2px 2px; background: #F5F5F5;" | | ||
* [[died]] due to [[gangrene]] on September 1, 1715. | |||
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Overview
Gangrene originated from a Greek word "sphacelus" that meant mortification of a human body part.[1][2] It was first used as a noun in the British Isles during the 16th century. Surgeons most often used it to refer to the cure of external human conditions. [2]
Historical Perspective
- Gangrene originated from a Greek word "sphacelus" that meant mortification of a human body part. [1][2]
- It was first used as a noun in the British Isles during the 16th century. [2]
- Surgeons most often used it to refer to the cure of external human conditions. [2]
- In the 17th century, this word was passed on from one person to another, until Shakespeare began to give metaphorical meaning to it in Coriolanus:
"The service of the foote Being once gangren'd, is not then respected For what it was before." [2]
- In the 19th century, pathology was considered as a new profession, and has made gangrene as a taxonomical umbrella with myriad of species flourished.
- In 1915, gangrene was described by surgeon D'Arcy Power in his book Wounds of War:
The wound generally becomes more or less emphysematous and discharges a thin brownish, offensive fluid, which contains bubbles of gas... The ineffective process continues after death and the swelling may rapidly become so great as to make the corpse unrecognisable.
Personalities Who Died from Gangrene
- Table 1 lists the famous people who had contracted gangrene.
Name | Image | Description |
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Jean Baptiste Lully |
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French King Louis XIV |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Christopoulou-Aletra H, Papavramidou N (2009). "The manifestation of "gangrene" in the Hippocratic corpus". Ann Vasc Surg. 23 (4): 548–51. doi:10.1016/j.avsg.2009.02.002. PMID 19540438.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Lawrence C (2005). "Gangrene". Lancet. 366 (9498): 1689. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67683-0. PMID 16291052.