Dominique Anel

Dominique Anel ( – ), French surgeon, was born at Toulouse. After studying at 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 Austrian army. In 1710 he was teaching surgery in Rouen, whence he went to Genoa, and in 1716 he was practising in Paris.
Anel was celebrated for his successful surgical treatment of "fistula lacrymalis", and while at Genoa invented for use in connection with the operation the fine-pointed syringe known by his name.