Léon Clément Le Fort

Léon Clément Le Fort (5 December 1829, Lille – 19 October 1893) was a French surgeon remembered for his work on uterine prolapse, including Le Fort's operation.

[2] Léon Le Fort undertook medical training in Paris under Joseph-François Malgaigne and Stanislas Laugier, and was awarded his doctorate in 1858.

He volunteered in the Second Italian War of Independence from 1859, and became prosector at the Paris medical faculty in 1861.

[3] He was elected member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine in 1876;[3] he became its president in 1893 but died later in the same year.

[notes 6] A number of Le Fort's descriptions and inventions still bear his name: