Amboise Paré

 

1552
Amboise Paré
First successful treatment of cervical vascular injury.
Paré reportedly stopped the bleeding from a lacerated common carotid artery and internal jugular vein in the neck of a Francois Prevost, who had been injured in a duel. Although the patient survived he was left aphasic and hemiplegic.

 

  

An old soldier asked me if there was any way to cure them. I said no, and he went up to them and cut their throats gently and without ill will. I told him he was a villain. He answered that he hoped were he in such plight someone would do the same for him, that he should not linger in misery."

Amboise Pare. The Siege of Metz 1652