Edmé François Chauvot de Beauchêne

Edmé François Chauvot de Beauchêne (1780, Île-de-France – 1830, Paris) was a French physician, surgeon and anatomist.

He was Chief of l'hopital Saint-Antoine Paris, the Deputy Chief of Anatomical Works of the Faculté de Médecine de Paris (both part of the University of France) and deputy head surgeon at Saint-Antoine.

[1] He was a member of the Société Anatomique de Paris and a Member of l'Academie de Médecine d'Île-de-France as well being the personal physician of Louis XVIII[citation needed] and the surgeon of Charles X.

[2] The skull bones are disarticulated along the sutures and mounted at a distance on brass supports.

Dentition is revealed with dissection of the left cortical bone showing the dental roots and with the nerve branches pigmented in red.

Beauchêne skull supplied by Maison Deyrolle