Jacques Mathieu Delpech
Jacques Mathieu Delpech | |
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![]() Jacques Mathieu Delpech | |
Born | 1777 |
Died | 28 October 1832 |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | University of Paris |
Known for | orthopedics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | surgeon |
Jacques Mathieu Delpech (1777 – 28 October 1832) was a French surgeon born in Toulouse.
He earned his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1801 and spent the next several years as a teacher of anatomy in Toulouse. In 1812 he became a surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Eloi in Montpellier, where he remained until his death in 1832.
Delpech is best known for his work in orthopedics, and he established a clinic for orthopaedic diseases at Saint-Eloi. There he advocated a surgical process known as "tenotomy" to correct contracture abnormalities of the extremities. He was also a pioneer of skin grafting and rhinoplasty, and is credited for documenting the first rhinoplastic operation in France.[1]
Delpech died when he was shot by a patient on 28 October 1832.[2]
Partial list of works
[edit]- Réflexions et observations anatomico-chirurgicales sur l’anévrisme (1809), (Translation of Antonio Scarpa's (1752–1832) work on aneurysms).
- Précis des maladies chirurgicales, (1815)
- Considérations sur la difformité appelée pied-bots, (1823)
- Chirurgie clinique de Montpellier, (1823–28) (two volumes)
- De l’orthomorphie par rapport à l´espèce humaine, two volumes with atlas, (1828).[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- This article is based on a translation of the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia.
- ^ Classics of Science & Medicine, Catalogue 31
- ^ Glicenstein, J (Apr 2009). "Pioneers and martyrs: Delpech, Guinard, Pozzi". Annales de chirurgie plastique et esthétique. 54 (2). France: 171–5. doi:10.1016/j.anplas.2008.10.014. PMID 19195756.
- ^ Bibliography of Delpech @ Who Named It
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