Octave Terrillon

Octave Roch Simon Terrillon (17 May 1844, Oigny-sur-Seine – 22 December 1895, Paris) was a French physician and surgeon, known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery.

From 1868 he worked as a hospital interne in Paris, where in 1873 he received his medical doctorate.

[1][2] On April 13, 1957, a French postage stamp featuring a portrait of Dr. Terrillon was issued.

Included on the stamp were images of a microscope, an autoclave and some surgical instruments.

[3] Somewhere around 1882 he advocated the procedure of using boiling water, a heat sterilisation technique for disinfecting surgical instruments.