Joseph Capuron

Joseph Capuron (10 May 1767, in Larroque-Saint-Sernin – 1850) was a French obstetrician.
In 1802 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, where in 1822 he obtained his agrégation at the faculty of medicine. In 1823 he became a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
Published works.
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. His other works include: