Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau
Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau (18 May 1795 – 24 August 1867) was a French
anatomist and surgeon
.
Biography
A native of
Alexis de Boyer
(1757-1833), he was appointed chair of clinical surgery, a position he maintained until his death in 1867.
In 1843 he succeeded
Légion d'honneur laureate, was one of Velpeau's prominent students.[2]
Accomplishments in medicine
Velpeau was a skilled surgeon and renowned for his knowledge of surgical anatomy. He was the author of over 340 titles on
tocology and embryology" (1831). A second French edition was published in 1835 with the title Traité complet de l'art des accouchements, etc.[3] Other works by Velpeau that have been translated into English are: Nouveaux éléments de médecine opératoire (1832) as "New elements of operative surgery" (1856) and Traité des maladies du sein et de la région mammaire as "A treatise on the diseases of the breast and mammary region" (1856).[4]
He is credited with providing the first accurate description of
ischiorectal fossa.[6]
Despite being one of the top surgeons in his time, Velpeau believed that pain-free surgery was a fantasy, and that surgery and pain were inseparable. With the advent of anaesthetics such as ether and chloroform in the 1840s, Velpeau was amazed, saying "On the subject of ether, that it is a wonderful and terrible agent, I will say of chloroform, that it is still more wonderful and more terrible".
References
- ^ Correspondance familiale (biographical information)
- ISBN 094234748Xpp. 20, 29–30
- ^ Pagel: Biographical Dictionary outstanding physicians of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna, 1901, 1758-1761 Sp.
- ^ WorldCat Identities (publications)
- ISBN 978-0-521-79136-6. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
- ^ Mondofacto Dictionary Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine definition of eponyms
Further reading
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau.
- Mansel, Robert E.; Sweetland, Helen M.; Hughes, L. E., eds. (2009). "History of benign breast disease". Hughes, Mansel & Webster's Benign Disorders and Diseases of the Breast (3rd ed.). Elsevier Health Sciences. pp. 10–12. ISBN 9780702027741.
- Alfred Velpeau and Obstetrics
- Velpeau's Anatomy of regions (1838)
- New elements of operative surgery by Alfred Velpeau (1851)
- A Complete Treatise on Midwifery by Alfred Velpeau (1852)
- A Treatise on cancer of the breast and of the mammary region by Alfred Velpeau (1856)
- New elements of operative surgery v.2 by Alfred Velpeau (1856)
- New elements of operative surgery v.3 by Alfred Velpeau (1856)
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