Jean Baptiste Paulin Trolard (27 November 1842 in

Sedan, Ardennes Sedan () is a commune in the Ardennes department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. It is also the chef-lieu (administrative centre) of the arrondissement of the same name. Location The town is situated about 200 km from Pari ...

– 13 April 1910) was an

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 it ...

known for his work on the anastomotic veins of the

cerebral circulation Cerebral circulation is the movement of blood through a network of cerebral arteries and veins supplying the brain. The rate of cerebral blood flow in an adult human is typically 750 milliliters per minute, or about 15% of cardiac output. Art ...

. The "vein of Trolard" (the

superior anastomotic vein The superior anastomotic vein, also known as the vein of Trolard, is a superficial cerebral vein grouped with the superior cerebral veins. The vein was eponymously named after the 18th century anatomist Jean Baptiste Paulin Trolard. The vein anas ...

) was named after him. He studied medicine at the Algiers Preparatory College of Medicine, afterwards working as a municipal physician in Saint Eugène, a suburb of Algiers. In 1861, he began work as an anatomy

prosector A prosector is a person with the special task of preparing a dissection for demonstration, usually in medical schools or hospitals. Many important anatomists began their careers as prosectors working for lecturers and demonstrators in anatomy and p ...

at the college. From 1869 to 1910, he was a professor of anatomy at the

Mustapha Pacha hospital Centre Hospitalo-Universitair Mustapha Pacha (French: Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Mustapha d'Alge) was founded in 1854 in the town of Moustapha (now Sidi M'Hamed) and is the largest hospital in Algeria. This hospital center is one of 14 Centr ...

Algiers. Jean Baptiste Paulin Trolard (1842–1910): his life and contributions to neuroanatomy
J Neurosurg 112:1192–1196, 2010. Known for his work against

contagious disease A contagious disease is an infectious disease that is readily spread (that is, communicated) by transmission of a pathogen through contact (direct or indirect) with an infected person. A disease is often known to be contagious before medical ...

s and epidemics, he was a proponent of free vaccinations for all indigent peoples. In 1882, he founded ''La Ligue de Reboisement'' in an effort to promote

reforestation Reforestation (occasionally, reafforestation) is the natural or intentional restocking of existing forests and woodlands (forestation) that have been depleted, usually through deforestation, but also after clearcutting. Management A debat ...

and prevent the deforestation of Algeria for the sake of creating

pastureland Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine ...

. With Henri Soulié, he was co-founder of the Pasteur Institute of Algeria in 1894.

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1842 births 1910 deaths Algerian anatomists People from Sedan, Ardennes {{France-med-bio-stub