Jacques Mathieu Delpech
Jacques Mathieu Delpech 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 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.
Delpech died when he was shot by a patient on 28 October 1832.- Réflexions et observations anatomico-chirurgicales sur l’anévrisme,.
- Précis des maladies chirurgicales,
- Considérations sur la difformité appelée pied-bots,
- Chirurgie clinique de Montpellier,
- De l’orthomorphie par rapport à l´espèce humaine, two volumes with atlas,.
