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Guy de Chauliac

1300 - 1368

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Guy de Chauliac (French: [də ʃoljak]), also called Guido or Guigo de Cauliaco (c. 1300 – 25 July 1368), was a French physician and surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin, titled Chirurgia Magna. It was translated into many other languages (including Middle English) and widely read by physicians in late medieval Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guy de Chauliac is the 213th most popular physician (down from 189th in 2019), the 1,573rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,481st in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Physician.

Guy de Chauliac is most famous for being the first physician to describe the bubonic plague, which he called the "black death."

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Guy de Chauliac ranks 213 out of 726. Before him are Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Patch Adams, Louis Ignarro, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Thomas Willis, and Frederick Griffith. After him are Waldemar Hoven, Mehriban Aliyeva, Zhang Zhongjing, Bernardino Ramazzini, John Langdon Down, and Giovanni Battista Morgagni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1300, Guy de Chauliac ranks 16. Before him are Jani Beg, Baydu, Al-Mustansir, Mesud II, Jaunutis, and Vytenis. After him are Guillaume de Beaujeu, Masamune, Toqta, Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria, Martin of Opava, and John Mandeville. Among people deceased in 1368, Guy de Chauliac ranks 4. Before him are Ibn Battuta, Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, and Orcagna. After him are Emperor Go-Murakami, Blanche of Lancaster, Ilyas Khoja, and Marco Cornaro.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guy de Chauliac ranks 1,573 out of 6,770. Before him are Chris Marker (1921), La Voisin (1640), Joseph Avenol (1879), Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817), Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464), and Honoré d'Urfé (1567). After him are Lolo Ferrari (1963), Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville (1746), Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), Michel Serres (1930), Charles II Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers (1609), and Georges Picquart (1854).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Guy de Chauliac ranks 21. Before him are Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857), and Marcel Petiot (1897). After him are Maurice Bucaille (1920), Paul Gachet (1828), Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Albert Calmette (1863), Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), and Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772).

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