Louis Gayant

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

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He was born at Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, and became a leading anatomist, but remained unpublished.[2][3] He is given credit in the discovery by Jean Pecquet of the Cisterna chyli.[4]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. (in 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: https://www.jstor.org/stable/530815
  2. D. J. Sturdy (1995). Science and Social Status: The Members of the "Académie Des Sciences", 1666-1750. Boydell & Brewer. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-85115-395-7. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  3. Roger Jacques (1997). The Life Sciences in Eighteenth Century French Thought. Stanford University Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8047-8083-4. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  4. Louis Moréri; Claude Pierre Goujet; Étienne François Drouet (1759). Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique, O - Q. Libraires Associés. p. 154. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  5. Nicolas F. J. Eloy (1778). Dictionnaire Historique de la Médecine Ancienne et Moderne, L - P. Hoyois. p. 508. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  6. Michael Cyril William Hunter (1998). Archives of the Scientific Revolution: The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-century Europe. Boydell & Brewer. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-85115-553-1. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
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