Jean Jacques Paul Reclus (7 March 1847 – 29 July 1914) was a French physician specializing in surgery. The Reclus' disease is named after him. He was the son of pastor

Jacques Reclus Jacques Reclus (27 July 1796 – 8 April 1882) was a French Protestant minister. Life Following studies in Bordeaux, he worked as a librarian at Château de Bonzac, home of Elie Decazes (1780-1860), minister of Louis XVIII. From 1819 he studied t ...

and brother of Élie, Élisée, Onésime and Armand Reclus. He is known for his research of

local anesthetics A local anesthetic (LA) is a medication that causes absence of pain sensation. In the context of surgery, a local anesthetic creates an absence of pain in a specific location of the body without a loss of consciousness, as opposed to a general an ...

, particularly

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Selected publications

* ''Sur les lésions histologiques de la syphilis testiculaire''. Paris 1881 – (with

Louis-Charles Malassez Louis-Charles Malassez (21 September 1842 – 22 December 1909) was a French anatomist and histologist born in Nevers, department of Nièvre. He studied medicine in Paris, where he worked as an ''interne'' from 1867. He served with the 5th Ambul ...

) * ''Cliniques chirurgicales de l'Hôtel-Dieu'', 1888 * ''Traité de chirurgie'', 1890-92 (8 tomes, with Simon-Emmanuel Duplay). * ''Cliniques chirurgicales de la Pitié''. 1894 * ''La cocaine en chirurgie'', 1895 * ''L'anesthésie localisée par la cocaïne'', 1903 * ''Les frères Élie et Elisée Reclus u, Du protestantisme à l'anarchisme'. - The brothers

Élie Reclus Élie Reclus (; 1827–1904) was a French ethnographer and anarchist. Élie Reclus was the oldest of five brothers, born to a Protestant minister and his wife. His middle three brothers, including the well known anarchist Élisée Reclus, all b ...

and Elisée Reclus (or from

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). (by Jean Jacques Paul Reclus, Élie Reclus and friends of Élisée Reclus).

Associated eponym

"Reclus' disease" is an

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on the neck that causes a woody hardening of subcutaneous

connective tissue Connective tissue is one of the four primary types of animal tissue, along with epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue. It develops from the mesenchyme derived from the mesoderm the middle embryonic germ layer. Connective tiss ...

. Reclus described the disease in an article titled: ''Phlégmon ligneux de cou''. Revue de Chirurgie, Paris, 1896, 16: 522-531.Reclus disease II
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