Paul Reclus (surgeon)
Jean Jacques Paul Reclus was a French physician specializing in surgery. The Reclus' disease is named after him. He was the son of pastor Jacques Reclus and brother of Élie, Élisée, Onésime and Armand Reclus.
He is known for his research of local anesthetics, particularly cocaine.
Sur les lésions histologiques de la syphilis testiculaire. Paris 1881 – Cliniques chirurgicales de l'Hôtel-Dieu, 1888Traité de chirurgie, 1890-92.Cliniques chirurgicales de la Pitié. 1894La cocaine en chirurgie, 1895L'anesthésie localisée par la cocaïne, 1903Les frères Élie et Elisée Reclus . - The brothers Élie Reclus and Elisée Reclus..
Associated eponym
"Reclus' disease" is an abscess on the neck that causes a woody hardening of subcutaneous connective tissue. Reclus described the disease in an article titled: Phlégmon ligneux de cou. Revue de Chirurgie, Paris, 1896, 16: 522-531.