Paul Reclus (surgeon)
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Jean Jacques Paul Reclus (7 March 1847 – 29 July 1914) was a French physician specializing in surgery. The Reclus' disease is named after him. He was the son of pastor Jacques Reclus and brother of Élie, Élisée, Onésime and
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. He is known for his research of
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, particularly
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.


Selected publications

* ''Sur les lésions histologiques de la syphilis testiculaire''. Paris 1881 – (with
Louis-Charles Malassez Louis-Charles Malassez (21 September 1842 – 22 December 1909) was a French anatomist and histologist born in Nevers, department of Nièvre. He studied medicine in Paris, where he worked as an ''interne'' from 1867. He served with the 5th Ambu ...
) * ''Cliniques chirurgicales de l'Hôtel-Dieu'', 1888 * ''Traité de chirurgie'', 1890-92 (8 tomes, with Simon-Emmanuel Duplay). * ''Cliniques chirurgicales de la Pitié''. 1894 * ''La cocaine en chirurgie'', 1895 * ''L'anesthésie localisée par la cocaïne'', 1903 * ''Les frères Élie et Elisée Reclus u, Du protestantisme à l'anarchisme'. - The brothers
Élie Reclus Élie Reclus (; July 16, 1827 – February 11, 1904) was a French ethnographer and anarchist. Biography Élie Reclus was the oldest of five brothers, born to a Protestant minister and his wife. His middle three brothers, including the well know ...
and Elisée Reclus (or from
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to
anarchism Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. A ...
). (by Jean Jacques Paul Reclus, Élie Reclus and friends of Élisée Reclus).


Associated eponym

"Reclus' disease" is an
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on the neck that causes a woody hardening of subcutaneous
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. Reclus described the disease in an article titled: ''Phlégmon ligneux de cou''. Revue de Chirurgie, Paris, 1896, 16: 522-531.Reclus disease II
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reclus, Paul 1847 births 1914 deaths French surgeons French Protestants Physicians from Paris University of Paris alumni Academic staff of the University of Paris
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