Silvio ROLANDO

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Silvio ROLANDO

With the publication of his article “Fracture de la base du premier metacarpien,” Silvio Rolando became the third Milanese surgeon to have a frac- ture named after him, a distinction he shares with Monteggia and Galeazzi. Like his colleagues, Rolando was a general surgeon. During a period of 30 years, he published papers in Italian and French medical periodicals on a wide variety of surgical conditions. Rolando was a member of the Société Internationale de Chirurgie.

César ROUX

1857–1934

César Roux, born March 23, 1857 at Mont-la- Ville, died December 21, 1934, in Lausanne.

Roux was educated in the Lausanne schools and pursued medical studies in Berne from 1874–1880. After 1 year of study in Vienna, Prague and Halle, he became first assistant at Köcher’s clinic and L’Hópital de L’Ile. In 1883, he began a medical practice in Lausanne. He rapidly achieved a reputation of an extremely skillful surgeon. In 1887, he was asked to become the physician in charge of one of the two surgical services at the regional hospital in Lausanne, and in 1890, Roux was given a title of extraordinary professor and in 1893, ordinary professor of surgery. Roux knew how to incite students to observe and think. His fiery medical, professorial and scientific activities lasted almost 40 years. He was a commander of the French Légion d’Hon- neur and Doctor Honoris Causa Degree of the University of Paris in 1929.

Roux’s name is closely linked to important progress in modern surgery, especially in the treatment of typhlitis, an affliction that Roux named more pertinently appendicitis, and opera- tive treatment of recurrent dislocation of the patella. His operative methods represent important innovations (thoracoplasty in pul- monary tuberculosis, esophagojejunogastrosto- mosis in esophageal stenosis, posterior gastroenterostomy in Y-manner in gastric carci- noma, etc.). There is practically no surgical inter- vention that Roux has not modified technically in tious osteomyelitis was read to the Academy of

Science in Paris by Bouley, one of its fellows. It

is the first recorded experimental demonstration

of the disease now known as hematogenous

osteomyelitis.