Joseph Capuron

Joseph Capuron (1767 – 1850) was a French physician who was a professor of surgery and midwifery in Paris. In 1823 he became a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.

Capuron published several treatises on diseases of women and children, however his best known literary effort was an 1806 dictionary of medicine called Nouveau dictionnaire de médecine, de chirurgie, de physique, de chimie et d'histoire naturelle. In 1810, Capuron and physiologist Pierre-Hubert Nysten (1771–1818) published a second edition of the dictionary. Afterwards, there were numerous revisions and editions (as well as changes to the title of the dictionary) by Nysten, Émile Littré (1801–1881), et al. The twenty-first and final edition was published in 1908.

Associated eponym

• Cardinal points of Capuron: Term associated with four fixed points in the pelvic inlet; the two iliopubic eminences anteriorly, and the two sacroiliac joints posteriorly. Also called the "cardinal points of the pelvic inlet".

References

• Becker Medical Medical Library Catalog
• A Compend of Obstetrics, etc. by Henry Gardner Landis and William Hughes Wells