Antonin Poncet (; 28 March 1849,

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– 16 September 1913) was a French

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. 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

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, 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

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. A rare form of

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that occurs in patients with

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infection is named after him, and is called "Poncet's disease". Following the

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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

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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

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, 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 a ...

Frédéric Justin Collet Frédéric Justin Collet (28 April 1870 – 1966) was a French pathologist and otolaryngologist. He studied medicine in Lyon, where he had as instructors Raphaël Lépine (1851–1919), and Antonin Poncet (1849–1913). In 1894 he obtained his d ...

. 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