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DOMINIQUE ANEL (1679-1730)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOMINIQUE

ANEL (1679-1730)  , French surgeon, was born at Toulouse about 1679 . After studying at
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Montpellier and Paris, he served as surgeon-major in the French army in Alsace; then after two years at Vienna he went to Italy and served in the
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Austrian army . In 1710 he was teaching surgery in
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Rouen, whence he went to Genoa, and in 1716 he was practising in Paris . He died about 1730 . He was celebrated for his successful surgical treatment of fistula leerymalis, and while at Genoa invented for use in connexion with the operation the
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fine-pointed syringe still known by his name .

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