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Pierre Solomon Ségalas d'Etchépare

Pierre Solomon Ségalas d'Etchépare

French physician


Pierre Salomon Ségalas d'Etchépare (1 August 1792, Saint-Palais, Pyrénées-Atlantiques 19 October 1875) was a French physician. He is noted for creating the "speculum for urethra", the precursor to the endoscope, which was presented in 1826 to the Academy of Science in Paris, and for the idea of practising an exclusive speciality.[1]

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  1. Ségal, Alain (2008). "Outline of the work of Pierre Salomon Ségalas of Etchépare (1792-1875)". Histoire des sciences médicales. 42 (2). France: 199–204. ISSN 0440-8888. PMID 19230322.



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