Pierre Lassus

Pierre Lassus (11 April 1741 to 16 March 1807) was a French surgeon born in Paris. He served for a time as surgeon to the daughters of Louis XV, and in 1795 he worked with Philippe-Jean Pelletan, Nicolas Dieudonné Jeanroy and Jean-Baptiste Dumangin on the autopsy of the ten-year-old Louis XVII. In 1802 he was appointed secrétaire perpétuel of the physical sciences section at the Institut de France, and in 1804 Jean-Nicolas Corvisart chose him as a consultant surgeon to the Emperor. His writings span his whole career: a new method of treating fractures and dislocations (1771), memoirs on wounds of the superior longitudinal sinus of the dura mater (1774), a historical and critical essay on the anatomical discoveries of the ancients and the moderns (1783), a periodical on the history of every part of the healing art written with Pelletan (1790), an elementary treatise on operative medicine (1795) and a work on surgical pathology (1806).