{{Short description|French physician and surgeon}} right|thumb|Octave Roch Simon Terrillon '''Octave Roch Simon Terrillon''' (17 May 1844, Oigny-sur-Seine – 22 December 1895, Paris) was a French physician and surgeon, known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery.
From 1868 he worked as a hospital interne in Paris, where in 1873 he received his medical doctorate. In 1876 he qualified as a hospital surgeon, and eventually became associated with the Salpêtrière Hospital. In 1878 he became an associate professor at the faculty of medicine in Paris.<ref>[http://www.zeno.org/Pagel-1901/A/Terrillon,+Octave-Roche-Simon Terrillon, Octave-Roche-Simon] Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Wien 1901, Sp. 1699</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=n9ogHWbzhhcC&dq=%22Terrillon%2C+Octave%22+Salp%C3%A8tri%C3%A8re&pg=PA455 Nos grands médecins d'aujourd'hui] by Maurice de Fleury</ref>
On April 13, 1957, a French postage stamp featuring a portrait of Dr. Terrillon was issued. Included on the stamp were images of a microscope, an autoclave and some surgical instruments.<ref>[http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6541&whichpage=6 Scientists - Stamp Community Forum - Page 6]</ref> Somewhere around 1882 he advocated the procedure of using boiling water, a heat sterilisation technique for disinfecting surgical instruments.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wright|first=P.|date=2001|title=Pioneers in infection control|journal=Journal of Hospital Infection|volume=49|issue=2|pages=128|doi=10.1053/jhin.2001.1063|pmid=11567558|issn=0195-6701}}</ref> == Selected works == * ''Leçons de clinique chirurgicale professées à la Salpêtrière'', 1889 – Lessons taught in the surgical clinic at the Salpêtrière. * ''Traité des maladies du testicule et de ses annexes'' (with Charles Monod), 1889 – Treatise on testicular diseases. * ''Asepsie et antisepsie chirurgicales'' (with Henri Chaput), 1894 – Surgical asepsis and antisepsis. * ''Salpingites et ovarites'', 1891 – Salpingitis and ovaritis.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-98736739/ Most widely held works by Octave Roch Simon Terrillon] WorldCat Identities</ref> == References == {{reflist}}
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