title: Stanislas Laugier
text: # Stanislas Laugier
  
  Stanislas Laugier (28 January 1799 – 15 February 1872) was a French surgeon and doctor. He was the brother of astronomer Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier (1812-1872).
  
  He was associated with the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris, a member of the Institut and of the Académie des Sciences, president and professor of the Académie de Médecine de Paris. He was buried in the cimetière du Père-Lachaise (57ème division).
  
  ## Written works
  
  With Gustave-Antoine Richelot, he published a translation of William Mackenzie's "A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye" as Traité pratique des maladies des yeux. Other noted works by Laugier include:
  
  * Des cals difformes et des opérations qu'ils réclament, 1841 (two editions)
  * Des varices, de leur traitement, 1842 - Of strictures and their treatment.
  * Des lésions traumatiques de la moelle épinière, 1848 - Traumatic lesions of the spinal cord.
  
  ## Medical terms
  
  * Laugier hernia: A hernia passing through an opening in the lacunar ligament.
  * Laugier sign - In fracture of the lower portion of the radius, the styloid processes of the radius and of the ulna are on the same level.
  * Laugiers fracture: fracture of the trochlea of humerus
  