Auguste Nélaton

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Auguste Nélaton (June 17, 1807 – September 21, 1873) was a French physician and surgeon. Born at Paris, he began studying medicine in 1828 and was graduated as an M.D. in 1836 with a thesis on the effects of tuberculosis on the bones. Three years later, he became a professor at the Hôpital St. Louis with a habilitation on breast tumors. From 1851 to 1867, he was a full professor, a post he abandoned when he became the personal surgeon of Napoleon III. Ramón Emeterio Betances—Puerto Rican pro-independence leader, surgeon and Légion d'honneur laureate—was one of Nélaton's prominent students. ^[1] In 1868, he was appointed Imperial Senator.

Nélaton worked in plastic surgery. He was the first to propose the ligature of the two ends of arteries in hemorrhages, invented the porcelain-knobbed probe for locating bullets known as Nélaton's probe, and made noted contributions to pelvic and abdominal surgery.

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1. ^ Ojeda Reyes, Félix, El Desterrado de París, pp. 20, 29–30

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• Auguste Nélaton
•   "Auguste Nélaton". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.