Paul Reclus (surgeon) explained

Paul Reclus
Birth Date:	7 March 1847
Birth Place:	Orthez, France
Death Place:	Paris, France
Fields:	Medicine
Workplaces:	University of Paris
Alma Mater:	University of Paris
Known For:	Reclus' disease

Jean Jacques Paul Reclus (7 March 1847^[1] – 29 July 1914) was a French physician specializing in surgery. The Reclus' disease is named after him. He was the son of pastor Jacques Reclus and brother of Élie, Élisée, Onésime and Armand Reclus.

He is known for his research of local anesthetics, particularly cocaine.^[2]

Selected publications

• Sur les lésions histologiques de la syphilis testiculaire. Paris 1881 – (with Louis-Charles Malassez)
• Cliniques chirurgicales de l'Hôtel-Dieu, 1888
• Traité de chirurgie, 1890-92 (8 tomes, with Simon-Emmanuel Duplay).^[3]
• Cliniques chirurgicales de la Pitié. 1894
• La cocaine en chirurgie, 1895
• L'anesthésie localisée par la cocaïne, 1903
• Les frères Élie et Elisée Reclus [ou, Du protestantisme à l'anarchisme]. - The brothers Élie Reclus and Elisée Reclus (or from Protestantism to anarchism). (by Jean Jacques Paul Reclus, Élie Reclus and friends of Élisée Reclus).^{[4] [5]}

Associated eponym

See main article: Fibrocystic breast changes. "Reclus' disease" is an abscess on the neck that causes a woody hardening of subcutaneous connective tissue. Reclus described the disease in an article titled: Phlégmon ligneux de cou. Revue de Chirurgie, Paris, 1896, 16: 522-531.^[6]

External links

• Paul Reclus @ Who Named It

Notes and References

1. Christophe Brun, Federico Ferretti, « Élisée Reclus, une chronologie familiale 1796-2014 »
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=jvema9PNEPgC&dq=%22Paul+Reclus%22+cocaine&pg=PR31 Neural Blockade in Clinical Anesthesia and Management of Pain, Issue 494
3. http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/viaf-12443878 WorldCat Identities
4. http://www.whonamedit.com/person_bibliography/946/ Who Named It
5. http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AReclus%2C+Jean+Jacques+Paul%2C&qt=hot_author WorldCat Search
6. http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1892.html Reclus disease II