Antonin Jean Desormeaux
Paris surgeon (Hôpital Necker from 1862); built and named the endoscope; often called the father of endoscopy
- Dates
- No dates given in the film's sources
- Chapters
- VIII. Light
What the film says
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Built the side-lit endoscope in 1853, burning alcohol and turpentine, and coined the word 'endoscope'.
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Considered electric light and rejected it as too cumbersome and too costly.
On the timeline
- 1853 (29 November in his own account; 20 July in other sources): Desormeaux shows his endoscope in Paris. disputed timeline
- 1855: Desormeaux shares the Argenteuil prize. timeline
- 1862: Desormeaux becomes surgeon at the Hôpital Necker. timeline
- 1865: Desormeaux publishes De l'endoscope in Paris; R. P. Hunt's English translation follows in Chicago in 1867. timeline