Philippe-Frédéric Blandin

Philippe-Frédéric Blandin was a French surgeon, born on 2 December 1798 in Aubigny in the department of Cher, who died on 16 April 1849. He began as an anatomical assistant to the faculty of medicine in Paris in 1821, became its prosector in 1824, and in March 1826 earned his aggregation in surgery with a dissertation on effusions of liquids in the abdomen. From 1841 until his death he was a professor at the faculty, holding the chair of operations and appliances. He is remembered for pioneering work in rhinoplasty and septoplasty, and he is credited with coining the term autoplasty for grafting skin taken from the same patient. His name survives in Blandin's glands, the anterior lingual glands, which are mixed glands of the tongue that he described early. His best written effort was an atlas of anatomy and surgery, the Traité d'anatomie topographique of 1834. He was a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine and vice-president of the Société anatomique de Paris in 1827 and 1828.