Rome, Italy

Joseph Recamier’s Memorial Tablet

This memorial tablet of Joseph Récamier can be seen along the left open gallery on the first floor of the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris. The French inscription lists and ranks over time some instrumental and surgical innovations made by Recamier such as vaginal speculum (1801-1819), hysterectomy (1829), curettage (1833) etc.

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  • Photos by Luca Borghi @ (July 2014)
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