Cruveilhier

Cruveilhier, JEAN, physician, born at Limoges in 1791, became professor of Pathology at Montpellier in 1824, and of Pathological Anatomy in Paris in 1836. Besides his great work, Anatomie Pathologique du Corps Humain (2 vols. 1828-42), he published several other works on anatomy, which were for many years the most valuable French contributions to their subject, and also a Life of Dupuytren (1840). He died 6th March 1874.