Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil

Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil (1823 to 1895) was a French physician and surgeon born in Paris. He trained in the Paris hospitals under teachers such as Lisfranc, Bazin, Denonvilliers and Malgaigne, became an interne des hôpitaux in 1843 and took his doctorate in 1852 with a thesis on the locomotion of the heart. He later worked at a succession of Paris hospitals, including Lourcine, Midi, Lariboisière, the Pitié and the Hôtel-Dieu, and from 1868 held a chair in external pathology and then clinical surgery. He was elected to the Académie de Médecine in 1869, presided over the Société de chirurgie, and joined the Académie des Sciences in 1887. Verneuil was known for work on wound dressing and is credited with introducing forcipressure to treat hemorrhage. His name survives in Verneuil's disease, the suppurative condition of the apocrine sweat glands now called hidradenitis suppurativa, and in the term Verneuil's neuroma for a plexiform neuroma. He wrote on experimental and clinical aspects of tuberculosis and gathered his surgical papers in the multi-volume Mémoires de chirurgie.