Eduardo Chapot-Prevost, Brazilian physician and surgeon (Cantagalo, Rio de Janeiro 25 July 1864 – Rio de Janeiro 19 October 1907)

From French father and Belgian mother

Introduced improvements in production of agar medium plates

With F. Fajardo. Nota sobre uma simplificação na confecção das placas de agar-agar ou gelose. Tecnica Bacteriol. (1894)

Performed the first successful operation for separation of siamese twins in the world (1900)

Designed a special operating table for Siamese twins

Possibly the first use of surgical mask (1900)

Idealized a process of hepatic suture employing nailing of deep points

Un nouveu procédé de reséction du foie. Arch. Prov. Chir. 10:193-214, 1900

Published Chirurgie des Teratopages (1901) with a preface written by French surgeon Felix Terrier  

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Formas clinicas do puerperismo infeccioso e seu tratamento (1885)

Pesquisas histológicas sobre inervação das vias biliares e extra-hepáticas (1890)

A bouba e a sífilis (1892)

O carbúnculo no matadouro (1900)

Xifotoracopago operado (1902)

Novo toracopago vivo (1905)

His brother, Rodolpho Chapot-Prevost, dentist (Manaus 04 March 1870 – Rio de Janeiro 06 March 1929)

Modifications sur la technique de l’anesthesie locale specialement pour les extractions dentaires. Rev. Odontol. (1900)

Modificação do fórceps para extração dentária

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Contribution a l’etude de la classification de la carie dentaire. Odontol. 2(16):365, 445, 479, 559, 1903

Dos deslocamentos uterinos (1915)