Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot
Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot was a French military physician and surgeon. He was the son of orientalist Jean Jacques Emmanuel Sédillot, and an older brother to historian Louis-Pierre-Eugène Sédillot.
Born in Paris, he studied surgery under Alexis Boyer and Philibert Joseph Roux. In 1836 he became professor of operative surgery at Val-de-Grâce, followed by a professorship at Strasbourg five years later.
Sedillot was a pioneer of urethrotomic and gastrotomic operations, and known for his work with dislocations and his treatment of pyaemia. He is credited with coining the term "microbe".- Du nerf pneumo-gastrique et de ses fonctions - The pneumogastric nerve and its functions.
- Phlébite traumatique Traumatic phlebitis.
- Campagne de Constantine de 1837 - Constantine Campaign.
- De l'opération de l'empyème, - Operation for empyema
- De l'infection purulente, ou, Pyoémie, 1849 - Purulent infection or pyemia.
- Traité de médecine opératoire : bandages et appareils - Treatise on operative medicine : bandages and devices.
- De l'uréthrotomie interne, 1858 - Internal urethrotomy.
- De l'Évidement sous-périosté des os - Subperiosteal recess of the bone.
