Pierre Demours

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Pierre Demours (1702 - June 26, 1795) was a French physician who was a native of Marseilles. He studied medicine in Avignon and Paris, and later worked as a surgeon and oculist in Paris. His son, Antoine Pierre Demours (1762-1836) was also a highly regarded physician.

Demours specialized in the study of the anatomy and diseases of the eye. He is credited with describing the membrane that is situated between the corneal "proper substance" and the endothelial layer of the cornea. This membrane is sometimes referred to as the membrane of Demours.

Demours also translated several English scientific and medical works into French, including medical essays of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh.

[edit] Selected writings

Sur le crapaud mâle accoucheur de la femelle (1741)
Sur la structure cellulaire you corps vitré (1741)
Observations sur la cornée (1741)
Table générale des matières contenues dans l'histoire et les mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences (1747)