visit the King. The rumour that his death was caused by poisoning during this summons was disproved by the autopsy carried out by his pupil Bichat. A pension was settled on his widow by the Republic. Works Together with François Chopart (1743-1795), he published Traité des maladies chirurgicales (1779), and Bichat published a digest of his surgical doctrines in OEuvres chirurgicales de Desault (1798-1799). Notes References External links 1744 births 1795 deaths 18th-century French physicians French surgeons French medical writers 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers Louis XVII