Raphaël Bienvenu Sabatier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Raphaël Bienvenu Sabatier

French anatomist and surgeon

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1732

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

Date of Death: 19-Jul-1811

Profession: surgeon, university teacher, anatomist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Raphaël Bienvenu Sabatier (11 October 1732 – 19 July 1811) was a French anatomist and surgeon born in Paris.He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1756 became a professor at the Collège Royal de Chirurgie.
Shortly afterwards, he became chief surgeon at the Hôtel des Invalides, and in 1795 was a professor at the École de Santé.
Sabatier was a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and was a consultant-surgeon to Napoleon Bonaparte. Sabatier was the author of De la médecine opératoire, a popular surgical treatise in its day, and Traité complet d'anatomie, a three-volume work on anatomy.
He was an early practitioner of medical percussion, a procedure he used in the diagnosis of empyema.