Charles Louis Stanislas Heurteloup
Charles Louis Stanislas Heurteloup was a French physician. He was the son of military physician Nicolas Heurteloup.
He studied medicine in Paris, where he obtained his degree in 1823. He is credited for making improvements to instruments used in lithotripsy. Among his inventions was a lithotrite known as a percuteur courbe a marteau.
In Paris, he had as antagonists, fellow lithotritists Jean Civiale and Jean-Jacques-Joseph Leroy d'Etiolles. In 1829, he traveled to England, where he performed the country's first lithotrity. While in London, he published "Principles of lithotrity".
Heurteloup also invented an "artificial leech", a device used to bleed sensitive regions around the eyes or the temples.
