Antonin Poncet (28 March 1849,

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– 16 September 1913) was a French surgeon. Son of Jean Joseph Poncet and Catherine Jeanne Chabalier, he was inspired by his grandfather Jean-Pierre Antoine Chabalier, surgeon in the Imperial Army. He studied medicine in

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, where he served as ''interne des hôpitaux''. He was a member of the Lyon ambulance corps during the Franco-Prussian War, and in 1878 became a member of the surgical section of the Lyon faculty of medicine. In 1883 he attained the chair of operative medicine in Lyon. With

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, Poncet is credited for introducing

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practices to Hôtel-Dieu. A rare form of

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that occurs in patients with tuberculous infection is named after him, and is called "Poncet's disease". Following the assassination of

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in Lyon on 24 June 1894, Drs. Poncet and Ollier attended to the wounded French president.L.P. Fischer ''et al.'
Ollier – The Father of Bone and Joint and of Reconstructive Surgery (1830–1900)
. maitrise-orthop.com Today, the Prix Antonin Poncet is a monetary award issued by the Université Claude Bernard for surgical research.

Written works

* ''De l’hématocèle périutérine''. Paris, 1878. * ''Traité clinique de l’actinomycose humaine''. with Léon Eugène Bérard (1870–1956). Paris, 1898. * ''Traité de la cystostomie sus-pubienne chez les prostatiques. Création d'un urèthre hypogastrique''. with Xavier Delore (1828–1916). Paris, Masson et cie éditeurs, 1899. 444 pages. * ''Traité de l’uréthrostomie''. with Xavier Delore. Paris, 1900. * ''Rhumatisme tuberculeux''. with M. Mailland. Paris, 1909. * ''Bibliothèque de la Tuberculose''. a collection of

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devoted to

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, i ...

, with

André Chantemesse André Chantemesse (23 October 1851 – 25 February 1919) was a French bacteriologist born in Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire. From 1880 to 1885 he served as ''interne des hôpitaux'' in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1884 with a dissertation on ad ...

& Frédéric Justin Collet. 1910

References

NCBI
Poncet's disease: tuberculous rheumatism.

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1849 births 1913 deaths People from Ain Academic staff of the University of Lyon French surgeons {{France-med-bio-stub