Jean Louis Belloq (1730−1807) was a professor of anatomy at Paris and designer of numerous surgical instruments including a cannula for plugging the posterior nares still know by his name.
The most important French surgeon of the latter part of the eighteenth century was Pierre Joseph Desault (1744−1795). He had studied under Louis and Morand, and after contributing several years as surgeon of the Charité (1782). Desault became a surgeon in Hôtal Dieu in 1788. He had excessive