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Guy Patin

1601 - 1672

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Guy (or Guido) Patin (1601 in Hodenc-en-Bray, Oise – 30 August 1672 in Paris) was a French doctor and man of letters. Patin was doyen (or dean) of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris (1650–1652) and professor in the Collège de France starting in 1655. His scientific and medical works are not considered particularly enlightened by modern medical scholars (he has sometimes been compared to the doctors in the works of Molière). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy Patin has received more than 27,140 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Guy Patin is the 490th most popular physician (up from 498th in 2019), the 3,828th most popular biography from France (up from 3,863rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Guy Patin ranks 490 out of 726. Before him are Wim Eijk, Karin Büttner-Janz, Carl Lange, Kyusaku Ogino, William Turner, and Willem Johan Kolff. After him are Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Zofia Zamenhof, James Paget, Sergey Botkin, George Huntington, and Tewhida Ben Sheikh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1601, Guy Patin ranks 14. Before him are Alonzo Cano, Tugay Bey, Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland, Simon de Vlieger, Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Alvise Contarini. After him are Paulus Bor, and François Tristan l'Hermite. Among people deceased in 1672, Guy Patin ranks 17. Before him are Adriaen van de Velde, Madeleine Béjart, Anne Marie Martinozzi, Pierre Séguier, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, and Marie of the Incarnation. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Georg Stiernhielm, Anne Bradstreet, Pedro Calungsod, and Francis Willughby.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guy Patin ranks 3,828 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Hersent (1777), Michel Audiard (1920), André-Pierre Gignac (1985), Marcel Cachin (1869), Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883), and Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956). After him are Maria Deraismes (1828), Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven (1896), Michèle Alliot-Marie (1946), Marc Riboud (1923), Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet (1736), and Coline Serreau (1947).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Guy Patin ranks 49. Before him are Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755), Charles Estienne (1504), Adrien Proust (1834), Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol (1786), Bernard de Jussieu (1699), and Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730). After him are Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1780), Wladimir Aïtoff (1879), Pierre Marie (1853), Henri Dutrochet (1776), Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835), and Aemilia Hilaria (300).

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