Paul Reclus

Paul Reclus ( born March 7, 1847 in Orthez, † July 29, 1914 in Paris) was a French surgeon.

Reclus attended the Protestant school in Sainte -Foy- la -Grande and studied medicine in Paris in 1867, where he received his doctorate in 1876. From 1879 he was a surgeon at a Paris hospital, received 1880 Agrégation and in 1895 professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. He was a member of the Académie de Doctor.

Reclus was a surgeon, a pioneer in the use of cocaine as an anesthetic. He also led the clinical trials for the first viable synthetic substitutes for cocaine as a local anesthetic by, developed for the 1903 by Ernest Fourneau stovain.

He is the brother of Armand Reclus Geographers (1843-1927), explorer of the Panama Canal Zone, the anarchist and geographer Élisée Reclus, geographer Onésime Reclus (1837-1916), inventor of the concept of Francophonie, and the anthropologists, journalists, and anarchists Élie Reclus ( 1827-1904 ). He is not to be confused with the anarchist Paul Reclus (1858-1914), his nephew, the son of Élie.

Writings

• Notice sur Paul Broca, Baillère, 1880.
• De la syphilis you testicule, Masson, Paris, 1882.
• Clinique et critique chirurgicales, Masson, Paris, 1884.
• Manuel de external pathology, vol 1 ( Maladies communes à tous les tissus. Maladies of tissus ), Masson, 1885 online version at Archive.org
• Chirurgicales Cliniques de l' Hôtel -Dieu, Masson, 1888.
• Publisher Simon Duplay Traité de chirurgie, 8 volumes, Masson, from 1890.
• Inflammations, Traumatismes, maladies virulent, Masson, 1894.
• Cliniques de la Pitié chirurgicales, Masson, 1894.
• La cocaïne s surgery, Masson, Paris, 1895.
• L' anesthésie localisée par la cocaïne, Masson 1903
• Publisher with other Nouvelle Pratique médico- chirurgicale illustrée, 8 volumes, Masson, Paris 1911-1912.