Anselme Jourdain

Anselme Louis Bernard Bréchillet-Jourdain was a French dentist and surgeon who died in Paris on 16 January 1816; his year of birth is given as 1731 in the Wikipedia article and as 1734 by other sources, so none is stated here. He was counted among the most distinguished Frenchmen in the study and practice of dentistry, yet he did not confine himself to the teeth and cultivated every branch of medicine with some erudition. He wrote a run of books in the eighteenth century, among them a 1756 treatise on toothache, a 1760 treatise on diseases of the maxillary sinus and the jaws, a 1766 essay comparing the formation of teeth with that of bone, and a 1778 treatise on the surgical diseases of the mouth. With Jean Goulin he produced two popular medical guides, Le Médecin des dames and Le Médecin des hommes. His son Amable Jourdain became an orientalist.