Louis-Marie Michon

Louis-Marie Michon (1802 to 1866) was a French surgeon, born on 2 November 1802 in Blanzy, Saône-et-Loire, and dead in Paris on 6 May 1866. He studied medicine in Paris, became an interne in 1826 and from 1830 served as aide d'anatomie to the medical faculty. He took his agrégation in surgery in 1832 with the thesis De la carie et de la nécrose, was appointed surgeon to the Bureau central the same year, and became chirurgien des hôpitaux in 1835. As a physician he distinguished himself during the Revolution of 1848. In 1843 he was a founding member of the Société nationale de chirurgie, now the Académie nationale de chirurgie, and in 1863 he was admitted to the Académie de Médecine. He wrote an early treatise on synovial tumors of the forearm, wrist and hand, published in 1851, and was an officer of the Légion d'Honneur. His son Joseph Michon became a politician, and Félix Guyon praised him at the society's annual meeting in 1873.