Alexis Littré

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Alexis Littré (born July 21, 1658 in Cordes , † February 3, 1726 in Paris ) was a French anatomist and surgeon .

Life

Littré studied medicine in Montpellier and Paris, where he taught anatomy for 15 years. He received his doctorate in 1691. In 1699 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences .

For the circumstances of his time, he carried out an unusually large number of thorough studies on corpses. Thanks to his good connections to a surgeon in the Salpêtrière, he was able to perform over 200 dissections together with a doctor colleague in the winter of 1684 alone. He published the knowledge he acquired in numerous medical essays and treatises. He was the first to describe a manifestation of the intestinal hernia named after him (Littré's hernia), and the Littré's glands ( glandulae urethrales ), which he first described, are named after him .

He also became known for an operation technique he developed for the treatment of congenital occlusion of the anus.

He was a member of the Académie royale des sciences .

Works

  • Observation on a nouvelle espèce de hernie. Paris 1700
  • Observations on the ovaires. 1701
  • Observation d'un fetus humain trouvé dans la trompe gauche de la matrice. 1702
  • Observations on the plaies de ventre. 1705
  • Observations on the gonorrhée. 1711
  • Description de l'urèthre de l'homme 1719
  • Various observations anatomiques. 1732

literature

  • Bernard Combes, Alexis Littré, 1654–1725 :, Sa vie, son oeuvre, Toulouse: Imprimerie des Capitouls, 1970.
  • Christoph Weißer: Littré, Alexis. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 858 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Weißer: Littré, Alexis. In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. 2005, p. 858.
  2. ↑ Ole Peter Grell; Andrew Cunningham, Dr .; Jon Arrizabalaga, Centers of Medical Excellence? medical travel and education in Europe, 1500–1789, series: History of medicine in context., Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, © 2010, pp. 242, 243, footnote 74
  3. ↑ Whonamedit? A dictionary of medical eponyms, Alexis Littre - bibliography, ( Online )
  4. ↑ Peter Reuter: Springer Lexicon Medicine. Springer, Berlin a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-540-20412-1 , p. 1265.
  5. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 12. Leipzig 1908, pp. 621–622
  6. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter L. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 14, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Littré, Alexis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medic, surgeon, anatomist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordes-sur-Ciel
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1726
Place of death Paris