Jean-Joseph Sue

Jean-Joseph Sue was a French surgeon and anatomist, born at La Colle-sur-Loup in 1710 and died in 1792. He was a professor at the Collège Royal de Chirurgie and at the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, and wrote many treatises on anatomy and surgery, with roughly two hundred anatomical plates credited to him. In 1750 he published Anthropotomie ou l'Art de disséquer, regarded as a classic work on dissection, and he also produced a French translation of Alexander Monro treatise on the bones, noted for its engravings. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1760, a foreign founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1779. His sons Pierre Sue and Jean-Joseph Sue the younger were also anatomists.