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The Ambroise Paré Award Contest
MEDICAL CORPS INTERNATIONAL FORUM – MCIF – herewith announces
the 2009 Ambroise Paré Award. The award will be made during the congress
in Malaysia, in 2009.
The Ambroise Paré Award is named for the outstanding French surgeon of the Renaissance. Paré emerged from the guild of barbers to further a better repute for surgery. He also made a major contribution to bringing into closer cooperation the disciplines of surgery and medicine. In 1545 Paré published an important essay on the treatment of shooting wounds. In 1552 he reintroduced ligature to stop bleeding.
Many casualties of wars owe their lives to Ambroise Paré.
Heinz-Jürgen Witzke, publisher of MEDICAL CORPS INTERNATIONAL FORUM,
in anouncing the award some years ago, said: “The Ambroise Paré Prize is intended, in the spirit of the medical pioneer for whom it is named, to stimulate scientific thinking and action in the sphere of medicine.”
The rules of the prize competition:
■ Eligible to compete are medical officers on
active duty; medical officers of the Reserve
or on inactive status; public-health and
medical officials; physicians, dentists,
veterinarians and pharmacists in the
medical or health services of military
forces anywhere in the world; scientists
on the staffs of military medical services;
and persons training to become medical
officers.
■ Admissible are manuscripts on subjects in
the fields of military medicine and military
pharmacy, including related areas.
■ The submitted contributions must be based
on the author’s own scientific perceptions
of his/her/their own research.
Summaries or other presentations of already
known scientific activities or facts do not
fulfil this condition – unless the known
material is placed in a specific, original
context through which new insights are
derived.
■ Entries may not have been previously published,
and are not to be published before
the awarding of the prize. A contribution may
be submitted only once. It is not meanwhile
to be entered in other prize contests.
Inaugural dissertations or excepts from such
presentations are excluded.
■ The submission must be a) in English, b)
at least 10 pages in length; and, if
possible, not more than 30 pages.
Images (TIFF, EPS, JPG) must be provided
in a high resolution (300 dpi).
A contribution should include a summary
of the essential facts and the results of
the activity, as well as references.
■ Entries are to be submitted in duplicate,
and designated with a key word of the author’s
choice. This provision is to ensure
anonymity: Entries are not to contain the
name of the author/authors or indications
of his/her/their identity.
■ Included with the submission is to be a
sealed envelope identified on its outside
with the same key word which appears on
the manuscript. Inside the envelope, the
contestant is to provide his name and
complete address. The author should state
age, professional title and his functions.
■ The contestant/contestants are also to state
that the submitted work was developed on
his/their own initiative, without assistance,
except as noted in the article, or in the
annex at the end, listing sources. A false
statement excludes a submission from the
competition.
■ Entries should arrive, via registered mail,
by 01. April 2009.
■ The selection from the submitted
manuscripts will be by an international
prize award panel, whose members are to
include representatives of this publication’s
Editorial Advisory Group and contributors
to the magazine.
■ If the awards panel considers that none
of the submissions is worthy of a prize,
or meets the conditions above, it can decide
to refrain from awarding the prize on this
occasion. The decision of the panel is final.
■ The award carries a prize of 3.000 U.S.
dollars.
■ The winning submission becomes,
without restrictions as to the copyright,
the property of the firm that publishes this
magazine. The prize-winning manuscript
will appear in MEDICAL CORPS
INTERNATIONAL FORUM.
■ After this publication by MCIF the author is free to
offer the article to other publications for reprinting.
■ Contestants are asked to understand that MCIFcan
not enter into correspondence about submissions.
With the sending of an entry for the Ambroise Paré
Award contest, an author recognizes and accepts
the above conditions for participation. Appeal
through legal channels from the rules or from the
decision as to the prize is excluded.
■ The time, place and circumstances of the award
are to be as reported at the beginning of this
article.
The Publisher in September 2008
Who was Ambroise Paré?
The question of the identity of Ambroise Paré keeps
coming up in connection with the announcement and
presentation of the Ambroise Paré Prize.
A description of this leading
surgeon of the Renaissance,
who can be regarded as the
father of modern (military)
surgery, is given below.
Paré was born in 1510 in
Bourg-Hersent (Département
Mayenne, Farnce); He came from
a poor family, and was a barber
until he came to Paris and gained
his first experience of anatomy.
He then spent many years
working in the Hotel de Dieu,
where he was able to see and
study disease in all its forms.
In 1533 he experienced her
Great Plague, which reminded
him of the wrath of God and the
impotence of mankind.
He then became a surgeon in
the army, and was present at
the battlefield of Catalonia,
Flanders, Lothringen, and many
more. He soon acquired a
reputation as an outstanding
surgeon. By chance, and due to
the circumstances, he came to
the conclusion that war wounds
heal better, without fever or inflammation,
if the “frightful”
teachings of Johannes von Vigo
were ignored – namely that every
gunshot wound had to be cauterized
and washed out with boiling
oil, because it was contused,
burned and poisoned. Paré
treated such wounds “mildly”
with a mixture of egg yolk, oil of
roses and turpentine, or simply
covered them with a bandage.
His work emphasized the
importance of the medical
practitioner who accompanies
the troops; the following is an
indication of this: at the siege of
Metz in 1553, an urgent request
came from the besieged Duke of
Guise for Paré to care for the
wounded.
Paré had tended him at the
Battle of Boulogne.
The besieged troops were in a
bad way, and it seems that the
fortress would soon fall.
Paré smuggled himself through
the lines of the besiegers, in disguise.
Once he was there, the troops
shouted from the walls of the
fortress: “We don´t die when
we´re wounded; Paré is with us!”
The psychological effect was so
great that Metz was held, and
the besieged army was defeated.
Paré wrote many papers, first of
all in French, and later in Latin.
His publications dealt not only
with fractures and luxations, but
also with trepanning of skull
injuries, not only with the art
of midwifery, but also with the
therapy of plague and smallpox,
and with a whole new range of
surgical instruments.
He became famous, far over
the borders of France.
His outstanding works led to
his appointment as “Surgeon
to the King of France”, but
he remained a modest man
all his life.
Ambroise Paré, the pioneer
of modern surgery, died on
the 20th of December, 1590 in
Paris.
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