Félix Vicq-d’Azyr


Félix Vicq-d’Azyr

Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (born 23 April 1746 in Valognes, died June 20, 1794) is a French physician and anatomist, pioneer of comparative anatomy and discoverer of homology. He was the last doctor of Queen Marie Antoine.

He was born in 1746 in Valognes as the son of a physician. Anatomy of the Jardin du Roi began in Paris in 1773. In 1774 he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, with the support of his friend Condorcet. As a member of the Academy, he was known for his talents in writing funeral speeches, from which he was responsible until 1788. In 1775 Vicq-d'Azyra was appointed secretary of the newly created Société Royale de Médecine. He was a professor of animal medicine at the Alfort School and superintendent for epidemics. As an anatomist, he introduced frontal crossings through the brain and applied the first brain tissue maintenance in alcohol, which facilitated subsequent cuts. He described a sinuous place and in 1776 a granular inner band, which is particularly wide in the area of ​​the furrow, known today as the Vicq-d'Azyra band. Publications Bibliography Authoritative control (person):

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