Louis Joseph Sanson
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Who is Louis Joseph Sanson?
Louis Joseph Sanson was a French surgeon and ophthalmologist.
In 1817 he obtained his medical doctorate, later becoming a surgeon to the "Bureau central". During the following year he was appointed "second surgeon" at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, and in 1830 received his agrégation. For a period of time he served as head of the ophthalmologic clinic at the Hôtel-Dieu. In 1836 he succeeded his former teacher and good friend, Guillaume Dupuytren as professor of clinical surgery.
His name is associated with Purkinje-Sanson images, being defined as catoptric images produced by reflections from the anterior and posterior surfaces of the cornea, and from the anterior and posterior surfaces of the crystalline lens. Term named in conjunction with Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyne.
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