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Louis Joseph Sanson

Born  1790
Died  1841

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French physician, born January 24, 1790, Nogent-sur-Seine, département Aube; died August 2, 1841.

Biography of Louis Joseph Sanson

Louis Joseph Sanson was the brother of the physician Alphonse Sanson (1795-1873) and the son of a midwife. From 1805, in Paris, he was successively externe, interne des hôpitaux, chirurgien sous-aide in the Hôpital du Gros-Caillou, and surgeon with the ambulances of the imperial guard (1813). He received his doctorate in 1817. Sanson was a pupil of Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835), with whom he had a close relationship until the death of the latter. In 1823 he became chirurgien du Bureau central, in 1824 second surgeon in the Hôtel-Dieu, 1830 professeur agrégé at the faculty. He headed the ophthalmologic clinic then newly established in the Hôtel-Dieu. During Dupuytren’s absence he represented Dupuytren’s chair in 1836, assuming this chair after Dupuytren’s death in 1836, with a brilliant concours.

In 1830 Sanson was relived of a bladder stone through an operation performed by Jean-Jacques-Joseph Leroy d'Étoilles (1798-1860).

Bibliography

  • Des moyens de parvenis à la vessie par le rectum, avantages et inconvénients attachés à cette méthode pour tirer les pierres de la vessie etc.
    Doctoral thesis, Paris, 1817.
    New edition, with Andre Vacca Berlinghieri (1772-1826), 1821.
  • Observations sur une résection de la mâchoire inférieure, pratiquée par Dupuytren. Journal universel des sciences médicales, Paris, 1820.
  • Exposé de la doctrine de Dupuytren sur le cal etc.
    Journal universel des sciences médicales, 1820.
  • Quelques observations de débridement très-large de l’anneau inguinal dans l’opération de la hernie étranglée.
    Journal universel des sciences médicales, Paris, V.
  • Généralités sur la pathologie externe. 1832.
  • Leçons sur les maladies des yeux, faites à l’hôpital de la Pitié, rec. et publ . . . par Alph. Bardinet et J.-B. Pigné. P. 1: Cataractes. 1838.
  • Traité des hernies, Suivi de l’hist de la bibliogr. de ces maladies par le Dr. Raige-Delorme. Brussels, 1838. Concours-theses:
  • De scirrho externo et praecipue de scirrho testis. 1830.
  • La carie et la nécrose comparées entre elles. 1833.
  • De la réunion immédiate des plaies, etc. 1834.
  • Des hémorrhagies traumatiques. 1836,
  • Louis-Charles Roche (1790-1875) and L. J. Sanson:
    Nouveaux élémens de pathologie médico-chirurgicale ou précis théorique et pratique de médecine et de cirrugie. 3 volumes. Paris, Baillière, 1825-1828.
  • Raphael Bienvenu Sabatier (1732-1811):
    De la médecine opératoire.
    New editions published by Sanson and Louis-Jacques Bégin (1793-1859). 4 volumes; nouv. édition, 1822-1824; 1832; 1836;
    German translation by Karl Christian Hille (born 1794), Dresden, 1826; 2nd edition 1834.
    Italian translation, Milano, 1833, 1834. In his will Dupuytren had entrusted Sanson and Bégin with the completion of his work Mémoire sur une manière nouvelle de pratiquer l’opération de la pierre on his bilateral cut for stones. The two arranged for its publication in 1836.

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