CRUVEILHIER, JEAN French anatomist, born at Limoges on Feb. 9, 1791, was professor of anatomy in Paris. He gave the first description of disseminated sclerosis, and left an early account of progressive muscular atrophy, but he erroneously supposed that pyemia was always the result of phle bitis which he referred to as an original coagulation of the blood. He even went to the extreme of asserting that phlebitis dominates all pathology. Cruveilhier died at Jussac on March 6, 1874. His chief works are Anatomie descriptive ; Anatomie pathologique du corps huinain (1829-42), with many coloured plates; Traite d'anatomie pathologique generale (1849-64) ; Ana tomie du systeme nerveux de l'jiomme (1845) ; Traite d'anatomie descriptive (1851) .