Antonin Poncet

Antonin Poncet (March 28, 1849 - (September 16, 1913) was a French surgeon who was born in Saint-Trivier sur Moignans in the department of Ain. He earned his doctorate at the University of Lyon and later practiced surgery at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon. In 1883 he attained the chair of operative medicine in Lyon.

With Louis Léopold Ollier, Poncet is credited for introducing aseptic practices to Hôtel-Dieu. A rare form of polyarthritis that occurs in patients with tuberculous infection is named after him, and is called "Poncet's disease".

After the assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot in Lyon on June 24, 1894, Drs. Poncet and Ollier attended to the wounded French president. Today, the Prix Antonin Poncet is a monetary award issued by the Université Claude Bernard for surgical research.

Written works

* "De l’hématocèle périutérine". Paris, 1878.
* "Traité clinique de l’actinomycose humaine". With Léon Eugène Bérard (1870-1956). Paris, 1898.
* "Traité de la cystostomie sus-pubienne chez les prostatiques. Création d'un urèthre hypogastrique". With Xavier Delore (1828-1917). Paris, Masson et cie éditeurs, 1899. 444 pages.
* "Traité de l’uréthrostomie". With Xavier Delore. Paris, 1900.
* "Rhumatisme tuberculeux". With M. Mailland. Paris, 1909.
* "Bibliothèque de la Tuberculose". a collection of monographs devoted to tuberculosis, with André Chantemesse & Frédéric Justin Collet. 1910

References

* [http://www.maitrise-orthop.com/corpusmaitri/orthopaedic/ollier_synth/ollie_us.shtml Essay on Reconstructive Surgery]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2644685&dopt=Abstract Description of Poncet's Disease]
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2811.html Who Named It?; Antonin Poncet]