Frère Jacques Beaulieu

Frère Jacques Beaulieu (also known as Frère Jacques Baulot^[1][2]) (1651-1720) was a travelling lithotomist with scant knowledge of anatomy and was also a Dominican friar. Beaulieu performed the frequently deadly procedure in France into the early 1700s.

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The urologic community often claims Beaulieu is subject of the French nursery rhyme Frère Jacques, but this is not well-established. A possible connection between Frère Jacques and Beaulieu , as claimed by Irvine Loudon ^[3] and many others, was explored by J. P. Ganem and C. C. Carson ^[4] without finding any evidence for a connection.

Some have suggested that Frère Jacques was instead written to mock the Jacobin monks of France (Jacobins are what the Dominicans are called in Paris).^[5]

References

1. ^ http://beaufort39.free.fr/baulot.htm
2. ^ Un célèbre lithotomiste franc-comtois : Jacques Baulot dit Frère Jacques (1651-1720), E. Bourdin, Besançon, 1917
3. ^ Western Medicine, Irvine Loudon, Oxford University Press, Dec 1, 2001, ISBN: 0199248133
4. ^ Frère Jacques Beaulieu: from rogue lithotomist to nursery rhyme character, Ganem JP, Carson CC, J Urol. 1999 Apr;161(4):1067-9.
5. ^ http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2852.htm