Léon Athanase Gosselin (16 January 1815, in Paris – 30 April 1887) was a French surgeon remembered for describing the
Gosselin fracture
The Gosselin fracture is a V-shaped fracture of the distal tibia which extends into the ankle joint and fractures the tibial plafond into anterior and posterior fragments.
The fracture was described by Leon Athanese Gosselin, chief of surgery at ...
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 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. He is remembered for his research on diseases of the
testicles,
spermatic cord and
scrotum, and their effect on fertility and virility. In this regard he is considered a pioneer of
andrology.
Written works
* 1857: ''Traité pratique des maladies du testicule''.
* 1859: ''De l'irréductibilité et des déformations consécutives dans les fractures des os longs''.
* 1867: ''Mémoire sur les tumeurs cirsoïdes artérielles chez les adolescents et les adultes''.
* 1875: ''Sur les faux abcès des os longs et l'ostéite à forme névralgique qui les accompagne ou les simule, lu à l'Académie de médecine, le 5 octobre 1875''.
* 1879: ''Clinique chirurgicale de l'hôpital de la Charité''.
* 1881: ''Recherches sur la valeur antiseptique de certaines substances et en particulier de la solution alcoolique de Gaultheria''.
* 1883: ''Traité des maladies du rectum''.
References
France savante, dictionnaire prosopographique. Biographie de Léon Athanase Gosselin
1815 births
1887 deaths
French surgeons
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Physicians from Paris
French urologists
19th-century French physicians
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