Scipion Abeille

Scipion Abeille (died 9 December 1697) was a French surgeon and poet. According to the source article he was born at Riez in the French province of Provence, now in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, and was the brother of Gaspard Abeille. His most famous work was Histoire des Os, a description of the bones, published in 1685. He also wrote Le parfait chirurgien d'armée, a treatise on arquebus wounds, a singular chapter drawn from Guidon, and a work on the anatomy of the head, published in Paris in 1696. The source article is brief and gives no birth date or account of his training and career beyond these works, so this entry records only what it states about his origins, his surgery and his writings.