3rd class Saint Anna order awarded in 1851 to the French Doctor of Medicine Auguste Ambroise Tardieu

Same cross https://asiamedals.info/threads/3rd-class-st-anna-orders-made-by-kammerer-keibel.27317/#post-363374.

Note additional custom-made gold suspension and ribbon rosette.

Gold, enamel.
Size 52 x 33 mm.
Weight 11.5 g.

Marked on reverse under the enamel with "Double-headed eagle" and "КК", ring marked with unreadable St. Petersburg assay office year mark.

Original award document. Professor of Faculté de Médecine of Paris Auguste Ambroise Tardieu was awarded 3rd class Saint Anna order on August 7, 1851.

French permission "to accept and wear".

 

Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (10 March 1818 – 12 January 1879) was a French medical doctor and the pre-eminent forensic medical scientist of the mid-19th century.

The son of artist and mapmaker Ambroise Tardieu, he achieved his Doctorate in Medicine at the Faculté de Médecine of Paris.He was President of the French Academy of Medicine, as well as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Legal Medicine at the University of Paris.

Tardieu's specialties were forensic medicine and toxicology. Over his 23-year career, Tardieu participated as a forensic expert in 5,238 cases, including many famous and notorious historical crimes. Using his cases as a statistical base, Tardieu wrote over a dozen volumes of forensic analysis, covering such diverse areas as abortion, drowning, hanging, insanity, homosexuality, poisoning, suffocation, syphilis, and tattoos. In recognition of his first clinical descriptions of battered children, battered child syndrome is also known as Tardieu's syndrome. Tardieu's ecchymoses, subpleural spots of ecchymosis that follow the death of a newborn child by strangulation or suffocation, were first described by Tardieu in 1859, and were so named in his honor.​