Nélaton, AUGUSTE

Nélaton, AUGUSTE, surgeon, was born at Paris, 18th June 1807, studied there, and, after serving as surgeon in various hospitals and lecturing at the faculty of medicine, became in 1851 professor of Clinical Surgery, and in 1866 surgeon to the emperor. He became a member of the senate in 1868, and died 21st September 1873. Besides his great Éléments de Pathologie Chirurgicale (5 vols. 1844-60), he wrote on tumours of the breast, and the operation for cataract.