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Guy de Chauliac

1300 - 1368

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Guy de Chauliac (French: [də ʃoljak]), also called Guido or Guigo de Cauliaco (c. 1300 – 25 July 1368), was a French physician and surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin, titled Chirurgia Magna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy de Chauliac has received more than 153,603 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Guy de Chauliac is the 207th most popular physician (down from 117th in 2019), the 1,554th most popular biography from France (down from 962nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Physician.

Guy de Chauliac is most famous for being the first physician to describe the bubonic plague, which he called the "black death."

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.02

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Guy de Chauliac ranks 207 out of 502Before him are David H. Hubel, Regnier de Graaf, Maurice Bucaille, Paul Gachet, Andrea Cesalpino, and Johann Weyer. After him are Leonhart Fuchs, Nicolaes Tulp, Norman Bethune, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, and Li Shizhen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1300, Guy de Chauliac ranks 13Before him are Jani Beg, Johannes Tauler, Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria, Jaunutis, Al-Mustansir, and Guillaume de Beaujeu. After him are Vytenis, Khutughtu Khan Kusala, Toqta, Charles I, Lord of Monaco, Kaykaus II, and Kayqubad III. Among people deceased in 1368, Guy de Chauliac ranks 3Before him are Ibn Battuta and Orcagna. After him are Blanche of Lancaster, Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Emperor Go-Murakami, Ilyas Khoja, and Marco Cornaro.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guy de Chauliac ranks 1,554 out of 6,011Before him are Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza (1911), Anne Parillaud (1960), Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (1438), Yvette Guilbert (1865), Georg Muffat (1653), and Henri de Lubac (1896). After him are Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency (1594), Claude Garamond (1499), Gilles de Roberval (1602), Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), Charles, Duke of Brittany (1319), and Adam de la Halle (1245).

Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Guy de Chauliac ranks 25Before him are Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857), Marcel Petiot (1897), Bernard Kouchner (1939), Maurice Bucaille (1920), and Paul Gachet (1828). After him are Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), François Magendie (1783), Édouard Séguin (1812), and Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853).