Henri de Mondeville (ca. 1260 – 1316), a medieval Frenchmen, has been claimed as the "Father of French Surgery".[1][2] There is some doubt about his birth place, but it was most likely to have been either the village of Mandeville or Edmondeville, both in Normandy. He was the surgeon to Philippe Le Bel (Philip the Fair) of France and his successor Louis X. He is the author of Cyrurgia (Surgery) (1312). This is the first medieval treatise on surgery but was eclipsed by the more famous Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgia magna. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis.[3]
A biography “Guy de Chauliac and Henri de Mondeville,—A Surgical Retrospect” by James E. Pilcher and published by the Annals of Surgery in 1895. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?iid=132254.