Louis Gayant

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Louis Gayant (died 1673) was a French surgeon and anatomist. He was one of the founding members of the French Academy of Sciences.[1]

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Louis Gayant (centre) performing a dissection for the French Academy of Sciences

He was born at Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, and became a leading anatomist, but remained unpublished.[2][3] He is given credit in the discovery by Jean Pecquet of the Cisterna chyli.[4]

Gayant was associated with the Collège de Saint-Côme.[5] He died at the Siege of Maastricht, while on active service as a military surgeon.[6]

Notes

  1. (French) E. Fauré-Fremiet, Les Origines de L'académie des Sciences de Paris, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London Vol. 21, No. 1 (Jun., 1966), pp. 20-31, at p. 29. Published by: The Royal Society.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/530815
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