François Chaussier

François Chaussier (July 2 1746 - June 19, 1828) was a French anatomist who was a native of Dijon. He studied medicine in Besançon, and later returned to Dijon, where he worked as a hospital physician and performed pioneer research in forensic medicine. In 1780 he became a professor of anatomy. In 1794 he was summoned to Paris by Antoine-François Fourcroy (1755-1809), and was given the responsibility of drafting a report on the establishment of learning institutions of health. This report was presented to the National Convention on November 27, 1794.

Afterwards, Chaussier remained in Paris where he became a professor at the École Polytechnique, and a chief obstetrician at the Paris Maternité, where he was a colleague of Jean-Louis Baudelocque (1745-1810). In 1822 Chaussier was elected as a member of the Academy of Sciences.

Chaussier did early studies of neuralgia, and introduced a procedure for revival of "near-dead" newborns. He also performed a descriptive survey of all muscles in the human body, and developed a new system of designation for muscles.
* Associated eponyms:
* "Chaussier's areola": A ring of indurated tissue surrounding the lesion of cutaneous anthrax.
* "Chaussier's line": Anteroposterior raphe of the corpus callosum.
* "Chaussier's sign": Severe pain in the epigastric region, a premonitory symptom of eclampsia.

Selected publications

* "Tables synoptiques d'anatomie" (Synoptic tables of Anatomy); (1799-1816)
* "Manuel médico-légal des poisons" (Handbook of poisons in Forensic Medicine); (1824)
* "Recueil de mémoires, consultations, et rapports sur divers objets de médecine légale" (Collection of memoirs, consultations, and reports on various objects of Forensic Medicine); (1824)
* "Mémoire médico-légal sur la viabilité de l'enfant naissant" (Memoir of Forensic Medicine on the viability of childbirth); (1826)

References

* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia."
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&list_uids=11625222&cmd=Retrieve&indexed=google NCBI; New born's apparent death (1781-1806) through François Chaussier's Work]
* [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?Chaussier's+line Online Medical Dictionary, Definition of Eponyms]