Louis Gayant
French surgeon and anatomist
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Louis Gayant (died 1673) was a French surgeon and anatomist. He was one of the founding members of the French Academy of Sciences.[1]
He was born at Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, and became a leading anatomist, but remained unpublished.[2][3] He is given credit in the discovery by Jean Pecquet of the Cisterna chyli.[4]
Gayant was associated with the Collège de Saint-Côme.[5] He died at the Siege of Maastricht, while on active service as a military surgeon.[6]