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THE sudden death of Dr. Just Lucas-Champion-nière has brought regret to many surgeons in this country, who knew the excellence of his character and of his work. He was seventy years old, surgeon to the Hótel Dieu (the great hospital in Paris, founded by Saint Louis)—Commander of the Legion of Honour, and member of the French Academy. His father was the first editor of one of the chief medical journals of France; his grandfather had been a leader in the heroic war of La Vendée. From the Collége Rollin, Lucas-Cham-pionnière went to the Hôtel Dieu as a student, and was interne there in 1865. He became one of the most eminent of all French surgeons of his time, and received honours from many countries, including the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of London and of Edinburgh. He was a great “all-round” surgeon; but he gave especial study to the operative treatment of hernia, and to the management of fractures. His best recreation—so far as he had time for it—he found in music.
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Dr. Lucas-Championniere . Nature 92, 271 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092271a0
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