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Up for sale a VERE RARE! "First Craniectomy" Odilon Lannelongue Hand Written Letter. This is one of the only documents to come to sale in the last 10 years as most of Dr Lannelongue's documents are house in the permanent collection of the Faculté
de Médecine de Paris.
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Odilon Marc Lannelongue (4 December 1840 – 22
December 1911) was a French surgeon who was a native of Castéra-Verduzan. In 1867
he earned his medical doctorate at Paris,
where he was a student of Charles-Pierre Nélaton (1807–1873).
In 1883 he became a professor at the Faculté de Médecine de Paris,
and in 1895 became a member of the Academy of Sciences. Later
in life he became interested in politics, being chosen as senator Lannelongue is remembered for his work involving bone diseases, especially osteomyelitis and bone tuberculosis. In 1892 he performed the an operation that involved correction of a
sagittal synostosis. He is also credited for
introducing a method of treatment for synovial tuberculosis through the use 1911 he founded the Médaille internationale de in memory of his wife, Marie Lannelongue (née Cibiel), who served
as a nurse during the Franco-Prussian War. This
award is issued every five years by the Académie nationale de chirurgie (National
Academy of Surgery). During his medical career, Lannelongue had several famous
persons as patients, such as Léon Gambetta, Sarah Bernhardt and Félix Faure.
Associated eponyms
which are foramina of the smallest veins of
the heart.
