PARE, pa'rfi', AMBROISE ( 1517-90). A French surgeon. born at Laval. Departim nt of :%laycline. Ile was apprenticed to a barber in Paris. swilled anatomy and and in I511 entered the army as a suroc-on. During the inilitar3 opera tions in Italy he acquired a great reputation as a skillful surgeon. Ile introduced the practice of liating arteries in bleeding wounds. in of the fashion which then prevailed of cauterizing them with boiling oil. Although he made many other improvements in the arts it is on the livatinu arteries that his fame as 'the f. tit. r of modern surrrery• chiefly rests. On hi- return to Paris in 17,3o he was received with dist inet by the Royal College of and was sub :s-quentiv made it- president. War newel. he :wain entered active seniee. At Du- tine also lie ,111)--Iitlit ea ligature- of the art. amputations for cauterization. An I lacy
other important improvements in surgery were introduced by him. Returning to Paris. be hors were showered upon him, and though he was ig norant of Latin, the eontlitio sine qua non of a liberal education at that time, learned titles and degrees were conferred upon him.
Parivs writings have exercised a profound in fluence on the practice of surgery, and particu larly in the treatment of gunshot wounds. The first complete edition of ParCi's works appeared at Lyons in 1562; the last, edited by Mal at Paris in Besides these are eight Latin editions, and more than fifteen trans lations. His principal work was Cinq litres de chirurgie (1562). Consult: Stephen Paget, Am broise Pare and his Times (1897), and the Life by PiuIltiier (Paris, 1884). See SURGERY, „MILI TARY; and MEDICINE, HISTORY OF.