Jean-Marc Bourgery's (May 19, 1797 - June, 1849) was a French physician and anatomist. Bourgery was born in Orléans. He entered the École de Médecine de Paris in 1811 and in 1815 became an internist at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. In 1817 et 1818, his anatomic work received prices at the École pratique de la faculté de médecine de Paris, and in 1819 was awarded the gold medal of the hospital of Paris. He began teaching medicin at Laennec and was a health officer at a copper foundry near Rouen. Returning to Paris in 1827, he studied for an additional three years, receiving his doctorate in record time. His thesis on circular ligatures became a seminal work, republished multiple times in English, German, and even Arabic. He began his magnum opus, Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme (1829 - 1854), a groundbreaking study of human anatomy featuring 725 large-scale anatomical plates by collaborating artist Nicholas-Henri Jacob (1782 - 1871). This monumental work, was praised in its time by the by the Society of Fine Arts of Paris, as 'magnificent,' and 'a beautiful book … unique in [its] genre' and 'of great truth of detail [and] a masterpiece of execution for accuracy. Bourgery died of cholera in Passy in June 1849, while still adding to on his masterpiece. Despite the significance of his work Bourgery never received the official recognition for his achievements.