Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil
Surgeon, Deceased Person
1823 – 1895
Who was Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil?
Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil was a French physician and surgeon.
He studied medicine in Paris, where his instructors were Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin, Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin, Charles-Pierre Denonvilliers and Joseph-François Malgaigne. In 1843 he became interne des hôpitaux, obtaining his doctorate in 1852 with the thesis Recherches sur la locomotion du coeur. During the following year he received his aggregation, later being associated with the Hôpital Lourcine, Hôpital du Midi, Hôpital Lariboisière, Hôpital de la Pitié, and Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.
In 1868 he became a professor of external pathology, and from 1872 served as a professor of clinical surgery at the Pitié. In 1869 he became a member of the "Académie de Médecine" and president of the "Société de chirurgie". In 1887 he replaced Leon Athanese Gosselin at the "Académie des Sciences".
Verneuil was known for contributions made in the development of wound dressing, and is credited for introducing forcipressure in treatment of hemorrhage. His name is associated with "Verneuil's disease", a suppurative disease affecting the apocrine sweat glands that is generally known today as hidradenitis suppurativa. Also, "plexiform neuroma" is sometimes referred to as "Verneuil's neuroma".
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