Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu [SEP] place of death
Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu
Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu (21 June 1841 in Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) – 26 October 1926 in Paris) was a French surgeon.
Beginning in 1863 he was an interne of medicine in Paris, later serving as an aide of anatomy (1864) and as a prosector to the medical faculty (1867). In 1867 he received his doctorate with a thesis on venous circulation of the foot and leg, two years later obtaining his agrégation in surgery with
he found that magnesium chloride not only worked as an antiseptic, but was also harmless to body tissue. Serendipitously, he discovered that when the magnesium chloride solution was taken orally or intravenously, it appeared to be a remedy for other ailments. Delbet also believed that magnesium was beneficial to the efficiency of white blood cells, of which he described in his treatise ""Politique Préventive du Cancer"".
With Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu (1841-1926) and others, he was co-publisher of