Noël-Francois-Odon Guéneau de Mussy (6 November 1813 – 1 June 1885) was a French physician who was a native of
Paris
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. He was the son of writer Philibert Guéneau de Mussy (1776-1854), and grandson to
hygienist
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Jean Noël Hallé
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He was a professor of physical medicine and health at the ''École de Santé'', and afterwards a ...
(1754-1822).
In 1835 he became an interne to Paris hospitals, and in 1837 received his medical doctorate. In 1842 he became ''médecin des hôpitaux'', working at the
Hôpital Saint-Antoine
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Académie Nationale de Médecine
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. Two of his better known assistants were
ophthalmologist
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angina
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.Google Books The Medical Times and Gazette: A Journal of Medical Science Among his written works was the four-volume ''Clinique médicale'' (1874–1885).
His name is lent to the eponymous "Guéneau de Mussy point", an anatomical location germane in cases of
diaphragmatic
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pleurisy. It is located on the left border of the sternum at the end of the bony portion of the
tenth rib
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. If diaphragmatic pleurisy is present, the point becomes exceedingly painful when pressure is applied to it.