Joseph Capuron

Who was Joseph Capuron?

Joseph Capuron was a French physician who was a professor of surgery and midwifery in Paris. In 1823 he became a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.

Capuron published several treatises on diseases of women and children, however his best known literary effort was an 1806 dictionary of medicine called Nouveau dictionnaire de médecine, de chirurgie, de physique, de chimie et d'histoire naturelle. In 1810, Capuron and physiologist Pierre-Hubert Nysten published a second edition of the dictionary. Afterwards, there were numerous revisions and editions by Nysten, Émile Littré, et al. The twenty-first and final edition was published in 1908.