[Amédée Bonnet was one of the main surgeons (Chirurgien-major) in Lyon's Hôtel-Dieu Hospital].
Just after he died, in 1858, at forty nine and honoured through an awe-inspiring burial, an eight feet Florentine bronze of him was raised in the middle of Lyon's hospital. He was devoted to osteo-articular surgery and fights against unexpected limb positions after joint infection. To drain matter out of a joint, he opened or punctured it with the new hollowed needle recently devised by Pravaz, Lyon's doctor. He too invented a wire netting system to maintain limbs in accurate position. As infection went out, he purposed different other wiring devices (using bronze fitted with a Lyon's goldsmith) to move joints and make it useful despite former infection. Close to rich surgical achievements and top level teaching, he wrote: "Treatise of tendon and muscular cuttings" (Traité des sections des tendons et des muscles) and "Treatise of joint diseases" (Traité des maladies des articulations). He also indulged about literature, as Lamartine: a romantic at heart, he expressed his feelings to his Bugey birth country, its beautiful hills and attractive rivers, every time through gloomy mood. He sets against Prince Napoléon, further Napoléon III, to avoid turning medical studies to much scientific and to keep in sight literature in view of human relations with any patients.
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Université de Lyon.
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Amédée Bonnet (1809, Ambérieu-en-Bugey - 1858, Lyon), chirurgien major de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon, novateur de la chirurgie ostéo-articulaire et homme de lettres.