Pierre Lalouette de Vernicourt (1711 - 1792) was a distinguished French

anatomist Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its ...

. Lalouette described a lobe present in around a third of the population's thyroids that would later be called the Lalouette's Pyramid. When asked about a possible function for the

thyroid gland The thyroid, or thyroid gland, is an endocrine gland in vertebrates. In humans it is in the neck and consists of two connected lobe (anatomy), lobes. The lower two thirds of the lobes are connected by a thin band of Connective tissue, tissue cal ...

, Lalouette said that it "would intervene to modulate voice expression by the liquid it produces."

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*''Nouvelle méthode de traiter les maladies vénériennes par la fumigation, avec les procès-verbaux des guérisons opérées par ce moyen'' in 1776 (translated in English in 1777). *''Traité des scrophules, vulgairement appelées écrouelles ou humeurs froides, 3e partie, contenant l'examen analytique des nouveaux procédés qui composent le remède anti-scrophuleux, suivie de deux dissertations médico-chimiques, dont la 1re contient le procédé pour dissoudre le plomb dans les corps vivants par le moyen du mercure coulant et animé la seconde... expose les dangers presqu'inévitables des étamages'' in 1782.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lalouette, Pierre 1711 births 1792 deaths 18th-century French physicians