Léon Gosselin
Léon Athanase Gosselin (16 January 1815, in Paris – 30 April 1887) was a French surgeon remembered for describing the Gosselin fracture in 1866. He was chief of surgery at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris. He studied medicine in Paris, becoming a prosector to the medical faculty in 1842. In 1843 he defended his doctorate with a thesis titled "''Études sur les fibro-cartilages inter-articulaires''". During the following year he attained his aggregation in surgery with the thesis ''"De l’étranglement dans les hernies''". He was appointed professor at the Faculté de Médecine de Paris — the first chair of external pathology (1858–1866), the fourth chair of clinical surgery at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Pitié Hospital (1867), the third chair of clinical surgery at the Charité (1867–1884). He was also a professor at the École supérieure de Pharmacie. During his career, Gosselin excelled in the fields of orthopedics, anatomy, physiology and urology. H ...
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