Charles Louis Stanislas Heurteloup

Charles Louis Stanislas Heurteloup (16 February 1793, Paris – 1864) was a French physician. He was the son of military physician Nicolas Heurteloup (1750-1812).

He studied medicine in Paris, where he obtained his degree in 1823. He is credited for making improvements to instruments used in lithotripsy. Among his inventions was a lithotrite known as a percuteur courbe a marteau.[1]

In Paris, he had as antagonists, fellow lithotritists Jean Civiale (1792-1867) and Jean-Jacques-Joseph Leroy d'Etiolles (1798-1860). In 1829, he traveled to England, where he performed the country's first lithotrity.[2] While in London, he published "Principles of lithotrity" (1831).[3]

Heurteloup also invented an "artificial leech", a device used to bleed sensitive regions around the eyes or the temples.[4]

Selected writings
  • "Principles of lithotrity or a Treatise on the art of extracting the stone without incision..."; London : Wittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1831.
  • Lithotripsie : mémoires sur la lithotripsie par percussion, 1833 - Lithotripsy: memoirs of lithotripsy with percussion.
  • Rétrécissements de l'urèthre, 1855 - Strictures of the urethra.[5]

References
  1. British Association of Urological Surgeons Archived December 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Heurteloup's Lithotrite
  2. A History Of Surgery by Harold Ellis
  3. Google Books System of Surgery Frederic S. Dennis
  4. Phisick Medical Antiques Heurteloup with Rotating Scarifier
  5. IDREF.fr (bibliography)
  • Google Books Principles of lithotrity; or, A treatise on the art of extracting the stone... by Charles Louis S. Heurteloup (Baron)
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