François Pourfour du Petit, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

François Pourfour du Petit

French anatomist, ophthalmologist and surgeon who was a native of Paris

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1664

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 18-Jun-1741

Profession: naturalist, anatomist, ophthalmologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

François Pourfour du Petit (June 24, 1664 – June 18, 1741) was a French anatomist, ophthalmologist and surgeon who was a native of Paris. He studied medicine at the University of Montpellier, and afterwards studied surgery at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris.
During this period of time he also attended lectures by Guichard Joseph Duverney (1648–1730) in anatomy and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708) in botany.
Between 1693 and 1713 he was a military physician in the armies of Louis XIV, and after the Peace of Utrecht (1713), he returned to Paris as an eye specialist.
From 1722 to 1741 he was a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences. Petit is remembered for his anatomical studies of the eye, as well as physiological research of the sympathetic nervous system.
As a military physician, Petit noticed that there was a striking correlation between soldiers' head wounds and contralateral motor effects, which he documented in a 1710 treatise called Lettres d’un medecin des hopitaux du roi a un autre medecin de ses amis.
He performed pioneer investigations on the internal structure of the spinal cord, and gave an early, detailed description of the decussation of the pyramids.
He also provided the first clinical description of symptoms of what would later be known as Horner's syndrome.,



Alternative names	Jean Restout, Jean Restout le jeune
Description	French painter son of Jean Restout
Date of birth/death	26 March 1692	1 January 1768
Location of birth/death	Rouen	Paris
Work location	France
Authority control	: Q730755 VIAF: 14869602 ISNI: 0000 0000 6628 7455 ULAN: 500016479 LCCN: nr91031256 WGA: RESTOUT, Jean II WorldCat