Marti M C
Dép. de chirurgie, Hôpital cantonal universitaire de Genève.
Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax. 1990 Jul 17;79(29-30):889-91.
Since antiquity, surgical treatments of anorectal lesions were performed by barbers and surgeons; proctology became with time a surgical speciality well defined and recognized todays. History of proctology is illustrated by some important figures and events: St. Fiacre, Felix the surgeon who operated on King Louis XIV's fistula and the acutely thrombosed hemorrhoidal prolapse of Napoleon.
