Charles Émile Troisier

Charles Émile Troisier was a French surgeon.

Life

Charles Émile Troisier was born on 6 April 1844 in Sévigny-Waleppe, Ardennes.
His mother was Marie-Louise Adeline Marache and his father Antoine Édouard Troisier, a health officer at Sévigny.
He became a doctor of medicine in Paris in 1874, then a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris and a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
He was made a knight of the Legion of Honour on 6 January 1890.
He had a close relationship with Princess Marie Bonaparte.
His son, Jean Troisier, also became a doctor and biologist, and was head of the laboratory at the Pasteur Institute.
His granddaughter, Solange Troisier was a doctor and a leading feminist.

Legacy

The following are named for him:

Troisier's sign, a hard, enlarged, left supraclavicular lymph node
Troisier-Hanot-Chauffard syndrome, a form of diabetes mellitus