Jean-Louis Petit (13 March 1674 – 20 April 1750) was a French surgeon and the inventor of a screw-type

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. He was first enthusiastic about anatomy and received a master's certificate in surgery in Paris in 1700. He became a member of the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1715 and was named director of the French

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by the

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when it was created in 1731. He acquired great notoriety because of his skill and experience, thanks to his case reports of

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, lacrimal

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and operation on the

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, for his treatise on bone diseases and especially for his general treatise on surgical operations, on which he worked for 12 years and which was finished after his death by François-Dominique Lesné (1722—1800).

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A Treatise of the Diseases of the Bones. (English translation)
1674 births 1750 deaths French anatomists French surgeons Members of the French Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Royal Society {{France-med-bio-stub

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