Sauveur François Morand


Sauveur François Morand was a French surgeon.

Biography

In 1724 he became a demonstrator of surgery at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, followed by service as censeur royal and a surgeon at the Hôpital de la Charité. He was later appointed surgeon-major of the Régiment des Gardes françaises and chief-surgeon at the Hôtel des Invalides.
He was a founding member of the Académie de chirurgie, and a member of numerous learned societies in Europe. In 1725 he was elected as a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences.
In 1729, while visiting St. Thomas's Hospital in London, he had the opportunity to learn William Cheselden's new procedure for stone cut, the lateral perineal lithotomy, a procedure that involved filling the bladder with water. Whilst in England he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
In a 1766 treatise titled, "Sur un enfant auquel il manquoit les deux clavicules", etc., he was the first physician to describe cleidocranial dysostosis.

Family

He was son of Jean Morand, who served as chief surgeon at the Hôtel des Invalides, and the son-in-law of Georges Maréchal, first surgeon to Louis XIV and then to Louis XV. His son, Jean François-Clément Morand taught classes in anatomy and obstetrics.

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