(1510–December 20, 1590), was a pioneer French surgeon, who greatly raised the standard of surgery. Rising to fame as a field surgeon in the French army, he discarded the common practice of cauterization, (using hot irons and boiling oils in the sealing of wounds), in favor of cleansing wounds with ointments and performing ligatures, surgically tying off major arteries. Ambroise Paré was so successful that he was appointed to the court and served four different kings.
The favorite saying of Ambroise Paré was:
I treated him, God cured him.99