Stanislas Laugier

Stanislas Laugier (28 January 1799 to 15 February 1872) was a French surgeon and medical doctor, the brother of the astronomer Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier. He was associated with the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris, belonged to the Institut and the Académie des Sciences, and served as president and professor of the Académie de Médecine de Paris. His writings include works on deformed calluses and the operations they require (1841), on varices and their treatment (1842) and on traumatic lesions of the spinal cord (1848), and with Gustave-Antoine Richelot he translated William Mackenzie's treatise on diseases of the eye into French. Several medical terms carry his name, among them Laugier's hernia, Laugier's sign in fracture of the lower radius, and Laugier's fracture of the trochlea of the humerus. He is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery.