Jean Louis Petit

Jean -Louis Petit (* March 13, 1674, † April 20, 1750 ) was a French surgeon and anatomist. He taught alongside Henry François Le Dran at the Académie royale de Chirurgie in Paris and is considered the inventor of the tourniquet, for which he developed a special apparatus.

Petit was appointed maitrise 1700 in Paris to the Master, for surgery. In 1715 he became a member of the Académie royale des sciences. With the founding of the Royal Academy of Surgery was Petit Louis XV. appointed its director.

Jean -Louis Petit was the author of a treatise on bone diseases (L' Art de guérir les maladies of the os ) in which he described the treatment of dislocations and fractures by means of a new machine. Twelve years he worked on a book on surgical diseases, which, however, was only completed in 1790 and published by François Dominique Lesné ( 1722-1800 ).

The lumbar trigone is referred to Petit as Petit triangle.

Jean -Louis Petit the first to describe completely the Epiduralblutung with their symptom-free interval and their treatment by trepanation. He also presented the first concept for the surgical treatment of breast cancer, which was not published until 24 years after his death.

Works

• Jean -Louis Petit: treatise of which Kranckheiten those bones in the human body. Ambrose Haude, 1743 ( full text in the Google Book Search ).