- Léon Labbé
Léon Labbé (
September 29 ,1832 -March 21 ,1916 ) was a Frenchsurgeon and politician who was born in the village ofLe Merlerault in the department ofOrne . He was an uncle to physician Charles Labbé (1851-1889), who first described the inferioranastomotic vein (vein of Labbé).From 1856 to 1860 Labbé was a hospital interne in
Paris , and in 1861 earned his medical doctorate. Afterwards he was a surgeon at several hospitals in Paris, including the Hôpital Beaujon, where he was chief-surgeon for several years. In 1879 he became a member of the "Académie de Médecine ".In 1892 he was elected to the Senate for the Department of Orne. Here he introduced various laws of interest to the medical community, including the 1914 "Loi Labbé" (Labbé Law), which provided compulsory anti
typhoid vaccinations for French soldiers.
* Associated eponym:
* "Labbé triangle": Location where thestomach is normally in contact with theabdominal wall .References
* cite book
title=Eminent Physicians
author=Angelo Mariani
year=1902
publisher=Mariani & Co.
isbn=
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_osEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=%22L%C3%A9on+Labb%C3%A9%22+1832&source=web&ots=58o9UOOUut&sig=Iw0Sj_vXVtyIhZ5WVkRMRA-Iw_w&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result
* [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?Labbe's+triangle Online Medical Dictionary]
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