, a French military surgeon, who acquired much celebrity for his
, a French military surgeon, who acquired much celebrity for his skill in treating disorders in
the urethra, particularly for his improved method of
making bougies, was born at St. Frajon in Gascony March
6, 1701, and after studying the art, became surgeon-major
of the imperial troops, and afterwards practised at Milan,
and at Turin, where the king Victor Amadeus promised
him great encouragement if tie would remain; but at that
time he wished to travel for improvement, and after visiting Rome and Vienna, continued some time at Messina,
where he exerted his skill and humanity with great success.
Having devoted much of his attention to the disorders of
the bladder, he published in 1745, “Recueil d‘Observations Chirurgicales sur les Maladies de l’Urethra,
” which
has been several times reprinted, and in Journeaux de Medicine,
” there is a communication by
Daran, in which he makes mention of a tube he had invented for drawing off the urine. This he describes more
particularly in his “Treatise on the Gonorrhoea Virulenta,
”
first published in Composition
du remede de Daran, &c.
” 12mo, when he could derive
no benefit except from the sale of his book. His other
publications were, 1. “Reponse a la Brochure de Bayet
sur la defense et la conservation des parties les plus essentielles de l'homme,
” Lettre sur ua
article des Tumeurs.
”