Raphaël Bienvenu Sabatier (11 October 1732 – 19 July 1811) was a French

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and

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born in

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. He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1756 became a professor at the Collège Royal de Chirurgie. Shortly afterwards, he became chief surgeon at the

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, and in 1795 was a professor at the École de Santé. Sabatier was a member of the

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, and was a consultant-surgeon to

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. Sabatier was the author of ''De la médecine opératoire'', a popular surgical treatise in its day, and ''Traité complet d'anatomie'', a three-volume work on

anatomy 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 ...

. He was an early practitioner of medical

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, a procedure he used in the diagnosis of

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Written works

* ''Mémoire sur les nerfs de la dixième paire'', (1776). * ''Mémoire sur quelques particularitiés de la structure du cerveau et de ses enveloppes'', (1776). * ''De la médecine opératoire, ou des opérations de Chirurgie qui se pratiquent le plus fréquemment'', Paris, Didot le Jeune, 1796. * ''Traité complet d'anatomie, ou, Description de toutes les parties du corps humain'', Théophile Barrois le Jeune, 1798.

References

A New General Biographical Dictionary
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(list of publications) 1732 births 1811 deaths Scientists from Paris French anatomists French surgeons Members of the French Academy of Sciences Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery {{France-med-bio-stub