# Octave Terrillon

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{{Short description|French physician and surgeon}}
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'''Octave Roch Simon Terrillon''' (17 May 1844, [Oigny-sur-Seine](/source/Oigny%2C_C%C3%B4te-d'Or) – 22 December 1895, [Paris](/source/Paris)) was a French physician and [surgeon](/source/surgeon), known as a pioneer of [aseptic surgery](/source/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](/source/Salp%C3%AAtri%C3%A8re). In 1878 he became an associate professor at the [faculty of medicine in Paris](/source/University_of_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](/source/postage_stamp) featuring a portrait of Dr. Terrillon was issued. Included on the stamp were images of a microscope, an [autoclave](/source/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 &ndash; Lessons taught in the surgical clinic at the Salpêtrière.
* ''Traité des maladies du testicule et de ses annexes'' (with Charles Monod), 1889 &ndash; Treatise on [testicular diseases](/source/testicular_diseases).
* ''Asepsie et antisepsie chirurgicales'' (with [Henri Chaput](/source/Henri_Chaput)), 1894 &ndash; Surgical [asepsis](/source/asepsis) and [antisepsis](/source/antisepsis).
* ''Salpingites et ovarites'', 1891 &ndash; [Salpingitis](/source/Salpingitis) and [ovaritis](/source/oophoritis).<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-98736739/ Most widely held works by Octave Roch Simon Terrillon] WorldCat Identities</ref>
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