Jacques Mathieu Delpech

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

Jacques Mathieu Delpech
Jacques Mathieu Delpech
Born	1777 Toulouse
Died	28 October 1832 Montpellier
Nationality	French
Alma mater	University of Paris
Known for	orthopedics
Scientific career
Fields	surgeon

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

• 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

• Listing of the works of Alexandre Falguière