Marie Philibert Constant Sappey

Marie Philibert Constant Sappey (1810 – 15 March 1896) was a French anatomist born in Cernon, near the city of Bourg-en-Bresse.

Later he became a professor of anatomy in Paris, and in 1862 was elected to the Académie Nationale de Médecine, becoming its president in 1887.

Sappey was a highly regarded anatomist remembered for his research of the lymphatic system.

In 1874 he published an anatomical atlas that included a detailed study of cutaneous lymphatic drainage.

Anatomist Henri Rouvière (1876-1952) continued Sappey's anatomical work of the human lymphatic system.