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THE death of Prof. Jean Casmir Félix Guyon, L at the end of his eighty-ninth year, removes the last of three famous Paris specialists in genito-urinary surgery; of these Civiale was much the senior, whereas Albarran (1860–1912) was Guyon's brilliant pupil and succeeded him in the professorial chair so far back as 1896. Guyon, though naturally little known to the younger generation of British surgeons, ranks with the late Sir Henry Thompson (1820–1904), with whom professionally he may be compared. Both these pioneers adopted and improved the eminent American surgeon Bigelow's practice of litholapaxy, or the complete removal of all the fragments of a crhed calculus from the urinary bladder at one sitting. Guyon was recognised as a great teacher in his speciality, and for years attracted students from all parts of the world to his clinic at the Necker Hospital.
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Prof. J. C. F. Guyon. Nature 105, 721 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105721a0
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