Louis Joseph Sanson

{{Short description|French surgeon and ophthalmologist (1790–1841)}}

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Louis Joseph Sanson (24 January 1790, Paris – 2 August 1841, Paris) was a French surgeon and ophthalmologist.

In 1817 he obtained his medical doctorate, later becoming a surgeon to the "Bureau central" (1823). During the following year he was appointed "second surgeon" at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, and in 1830 received his agrégation (professeur agrégé). 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 (1777-1835) as professor of clinical surgery.[http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2936.html Louis Joseph Sanson] @ Who Named It

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.[http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/image Medical Dictionary, "Image"] (definition of eponym) Term named in conjunction with Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyne (1787-1869).