Philippe Ricord
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Philippe Ricord was a French physician and surgeon.
Philippe Ricord, photographed by Étienne Carjat
Ricord caricatured by André Gill, 1867
Hôtel-Dieu, Paris
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The Hôtel-Dieu is a public hospital located on the Île de la Cité in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, on the parvis of Notre-Dame. Tradition has it that the hospital was founded by Saint Landry in 651
Philippe Ricord
…Alexandre Lesueur, who took him back to Paris in 1820. He worked for Lesueur as curator of his specimens, and at hospitals such as Val-de-Grâce and Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. He studied under Guillaume Dupuytren, but fell out with him when Ricord published an article pointing out a procedure Dupuytren claimed to have invented…
View of the Hôtel-Dieu from the Tour Saint-Jacques
Episodes from the Life of a Bishop-Saint, by the Master of Saint Giles (c. 1500), showing the Gothic buildings of the old Hôtel-Dieu at right
16th-century etching of a hall in the Hôtel-Dieu
Painting by Victor-Jean Nicolle