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Farabeuf, Louis Hubert (1841-1910), French surgeon who is said to have introduced hygiene in French medical schools. His statue dominates the central court of the National School of Medicine in Paris and the main amphitheater of it is also named after him. Farabeuf wrote some short chirurgical booklets (précis) and designed several medical utensils that are still in use nowadays. His passionate writings and descriptions of amputation surgery attracted the attention of several writers. Salvador Elizondo (1932-2006 ) wrote a cryptic biography of Farabeuf in which he emphasized and exaggerated the surgeon’s morbid eroticism. It is through this “secret classic of the aesthetics of evil” that Farabeuf is mostly known. Elizondo presented Dr. Farabeuf also as a French secret agent in China after the Boxer’s war, who worked secretly for the French Jesuits in sketching a plan for the evangelization of China. Elizondo mixed in Farabeuf, or the chronic of an instant events that he borrowed from the lives of Dupuytren (1777-1835) , Muybridge (1830-1904), Daguerre (1789-1851), Nadar (1820-1910) and others.
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