Alexis Littré Explained

Alexis Littre (17 July 1654 – 3 February 1726) was a French physician and anatomist born in Cordes (currently Cordes-Tolosannes in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne).

Biography

Littre studied medicine in Montpellier and Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1691. In 1699 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences.

In Paris, he taught anatomy and was the author of numerous medical publications. He was the first to give a description of a hernial protrusion of an intestinal diverticulum. This condition is now referred to as "Littre's hernia".[1]

He also described the mucous urethral glands of the male urethra. These structures were to become known as "Littre's glands",[2] and their inflammation is sometimes called "littreitis".[3] [4]

In his 1710 treatise Diverses observations anatomiques, Littre was the first to suggest the possibility of performing a lumbar colostomy for an obstruction of the colon.[5]

Jean Louis Petit was one of his students.[6] So was Jacques-Bénigne Winslow in 1707. He died in Paris.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1261.html Littre's hernia
  2. http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1262.html Littre's glands
  3. http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1259.html Littreitis
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=AaJXAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22littreitis%22&pg=PA437 Canadian Practitioner, Volume 31
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=2kFq8E_zW9wC&dq=%22Diverses+observations+anatomiques%22+lumbar&pg=PT36 Atlas of Intestinal Stomas
  6. https://books.google.com/books?id=ABbCI7z4UwMC&dq=%22Jean+Louis+Petit%22+Littre&pg=PA361 Great Ideas in the History of Surgery