Marie Philibert Constant Sappey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French anatomist
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Place of Birth: Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Marie Philibert Constant Sappey
- Marie Philibert Constant Sappey (1810 – 15 March 1896) was a French anatomist born in Cernon, near the city of Bourg-en-Bresse. He studied medicine at the University of Paris, earning his degree in 1843.
- Later he became a professor of anatomy in Paris, and in 1862 was elected to the Académie Nationale de Médecine, becoming its president in 1887.
- In 1868 he succeeded Jean-François Jarjavay (1815–1868) as chair of anatomy, a position he held until 1886. Sappey was a highly regarded anatomist remembered for his research of the lymphatic system.
- In 1874 he published an anatomical atlas that included a detailed study of cutaneous lymphatic drainage.
- He was married to Antoinette Clotilde Dumas who was a scientific illustrator.
- She illustrated some of his publications.
- He devised a procedure to define and delineate the lymphatic system by injecting mercury into the skin of a cadaver in order to properly view the individual lymphatic vessels.
- Anatomist Henri Rouvière (1876-1952) continued Sappey's anatomical work of the human lymphatic system.
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