Jacques Mathieu Delpech

Jacques Mathieu Delpech (1777 – 28 October 1832) was a French surgeon born in Toulouse.

Jacques Mathieu Delpech
Jacques Mathieu Delpech
Born1777
Toulouse
Died28 October 1832
Montpellier
NationalityFrance
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Known fororthopedics
Scientific career
Fieldssurgeon

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 be 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
  • 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

References
  • This article is based on a translation of the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia.
  1. Classics of Science & Medicine, Catalogue 31
  2. Glicenstein, J (Apr 2009). "Pioneers and martyrs: Delpech, Guinard, Pozzi". Annales de chirurgie plastique et esthétique. France. 54 (2): 171–5. doi:10.1016/j.anplas.2008.10.014. PMID 19195756.
  3. Bibliography of Delpech @ Who Named It


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