Henri Mondor

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Henri Mondor (May 20, 1885 – April 6, 1962) was a French doctor. He worked as a surgeon and later as a professor of clinical surgery in Paris. He also wrote about French literature and medicine. Mondor joined several prestigious academies: the French National Academy of Medicine in 1945, the Académie française in 1946, and the Académie des sciences in 1961. He is known for his research on rectal cancer and for improving urgent diagnoses. Mondor’s disease, a condition where a superficial vein near the breast and chest wall becomes inflamed, is named after him.