Frère Jacques Beaulieu
Frère Jacques Beaulieu (1651–1720), also known as Frère Jacques Baulot,[1][2] was a travelling lithotomist with scant knowledge of anatomy and was also a Dominican friar. 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, 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
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- ^ 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: Barrett, NR (1949). ""Observables" at the Royal College of Surgeons: 22. Frère Jacques" (PDF). Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 5: 275–81. PMC 2238378. PMID 19309876.
- ^ Western Medicine, Irvine Loudon, Oxford University Press, Dec 1, 2001, ISBN 0-19-924813-3
- ^ Ganem, JP; Carson, CC (Apr 1999). "Frère Jacques Beaulieu: from rogue lithotomist to nursery rhyme character". J Urol. 161 (4): 1067–9.
- ^ eMedicine - Bladder Stones : Article by Joseph Basler
