Frère Jacques Beaulieu
Frère Jacques Beaulieu, OP (Script error: No such module "IPA".); 1651–1720), also known as Frère Jacques Baulot,[1][2] was a Dominican friar and travelling lithotomist with scant knowledge of anatomy. Beaulieu performed the frequently-deadly procedure in France into the early 18th century.[3]
The urologic community often claims Beaulieu is subject of the French nursery rhyme Frère Jacques (also known in English as Brother John), but this is not well-established. A possible connection between Frère Jacques and Beaulieu, as claimed by Irvine Loudon[4] and many others, was explored by J. P. Ganem and C. C. Carson [5] without finding any evidence for a connection.
Some have suggested that Frère Jacques was instead written to mock the Jacobin monks of France (Jacobins are what the Dominicans are called in Paris).[6]
References
- ↑ baulot
- ↑ Un célèbre lithotomiste franc-comtois : Jacques Baulot dit Frère Jacques (1651-1720), E. Bourdin, Besançon, 1917
- ↑ A biographical sketch of him is available on Pubmed at: Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Western Medicine, Irvine Loudon, Oxford University Press, Dec 1, 2001, Template:ISBN
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- ↑ eMedicine - Bladder Stones : Article by Joseph Basler