Jacques-Louis Reverdin - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Jacques-Louis Reverdin (August 28, 1842 - January 9, 1929) was a Swiss surgeon

Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

who was a native of Cologny

Cologny

Cologny is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.-Geography:Cologny has an area, , of . Of this area, or 17.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 4.1% is forested...

. He studied at the University of Paris

University of Paris

The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...

, and in 1865 became an interne des hôpitaux. He 1869 he became an assistant to Jean Casimir Félix Guyon

Jean Casimir Félix Guyon

Jean Casimir Félix Guyon was a French surgeon and urologist born on Ile-Bourbon .He studied medicine in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1858. He was appointed médecin des hôpitaux in 1864, and was later a professor of surgical pathology and genitourinary surgery at the University of Paris...

(1831-1920) in the surgical department at the Hôpital Necker in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. Afterwards he moved to Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

, where he eventually became chief surgeon at the Hôpital Cantonal de Geneve, and a professor at the University of Geneva

University of Geneva

The University of Geneva is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland.It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin, as a theological seminary and law school. It remained focused on theology until the 17th century, when it became a center for Enlightenment scholarship. In 1873, it...

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Reverdin is credited with performing the first "fresh skin" allograft, and in 1869 while working in Paris, introduced the "pinch graft", which is a procedure for removing tiny pieces of skin from a healthy area of the body and seeding them in a location that needs to be covered.