In his will he left the bulk of his enormous fortune, amounting to 280,000/. to an only daughter. He also left 20b,000 franca for the purpose of endowing a chair of pathological anatomy. This sum being found larger than was necessary to endow merely the chair, a certain portion of the income has been appropriated to maintaining in con nection with the chair, a museum of pathological auatomy, which is called the Musee Dupuytren. He left his body, to be carefully examined, to his two friends Messrs. Broussais and Cruveilhier, who published a minute accouut of the post-mortem examination. He was buried in the cemetery of. Pere-la-Chaise, on the 10th of February. The funeral was attended by all the professors of the faculty, and deputations from the Academy of Medicine and the Institute, and the funeral car was drawn by students from the church to the tomb. Orations were delivered at the grave by Messrs. Orfila, Laney, Bouillaud, Royer-Collard, and Tessier.
Although Dupuytren will ever be remembered as a clever and a brilliant operative surgeon, it is not on this that his reputation rests.
It was the scientific character that he gave to his clinical instruction that placed him far above those who had preceded him, and which led to the cultivation of surgery upon principles founded on physiological and pathological inquiries, rather than on rules founded on the practice and authority of previous writers. If he left no great works by which to judge of the value of his labours, he yet raised up a body of enlightened practitioners of surgery in France, who in their numerous writings have ever been anxious to acknowledge Dupuytren as their master. His personal character commanded little respect and won no esteem ; he was cold, cynical, selfish, and intolerant.
(Lancet, vol. 1. 1834-35; El g& du Baron G. Dupuytren, par E. Pariact; Revue Mtdicale, 1835; Canna, Medicinisches Seltriftsteller Lexicon; and notices of Dupuytren by Salgues, Vidal de Cassis, Brive de Boismont, Cruveilhier, Bardinet, &c.)