Odilon Lannelongue, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Odilon Lannelongue

French surgeon

Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1840

Place of Birth: Castéra-Verduzan, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 21-Dec-1911

Profession: physician, politician, surgeon, pathologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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 Denonvilliers (1808–1872) and Auguste 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 from the department of Gers in 1906. Lannelongue is remembered for his work involving bone diseases, especially osteomyelitis and bone tuberculosis.
In 1892 he performed the first craniectomy for craniosynostosis, 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 of chloride of zinc injections. In 1911 he founded the Médaille internationale de chirurgie (Foundation Lannelongue) 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.



Alternative names	Pierre Lamy Petit
Description	French entomologist and photographer
Date of birth/death	15 August 1832 / 15 August 1831	16 February 1909
Location of birth/death	Aups	Paris
Work period	1848 – 1908
Work location	France, New York (Statue of Liberty)
Authority control	: Q1981250 VIAF: 100987556 ISNI: 0000 0000 8008 6705 ULAN: 500028356 LCCN: n87810036 GND: 174256957 WorldCat