Alfred Armand Velpeau

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Alfred Velpeau

Alfred Armand Louis Marie Velpeau (born May 18, 1795 in Brèches / Département Indre-et-Loire near Tours , † August 24, 1867 in Paris ) was a French surgeon , anatomist and obstetrician .

Life

Velpeau, the son of a village craftsman, was a medical student in Tours and assistant to Pierre Fidèle Bretonneau (1778-1862). He interrupted his medical studies to work as an officier de santé and continued it in 1820. In 1823 he received his doctorate. During his early career he was a surgeon in various hospitals in Paris . After the death of Baron Alexis Boyer (1757-1833) he held the chair of surgery at the Sorbonne . He remained in this position until his death. One of his most famous students was Ramón Emeterio Betances , the father of the Puerto Rican independence movement.

Velpeau published more than 340 works on surgery, embryology , anatomy and obstetrics . In 1827 he was the first to describe acute myeloid leukemia . In 1830 he published the well-known work Traité elementaire de l'art des accouchements on obstetrics. In 1839 he was the first to describe acne inversa .

His assessment of the possibility of performing operations under anesthesia became well known, to which he said shortly before the discovery of the first modern anesthetic procedure in 1846: "Avoiding pain during the operation is nonsense that no one believes in".

In 1843 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences .

literature

  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Velpeau, Alfred Armand Louis Marie. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1439.

Web links

Commons : Alfred Velpeau  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ojeda Reyes, Félix, El Desterrado de París , pp. 20, 29-30
  2. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 27.
  3. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter V. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 11, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Velpeau, Alfred Armand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Velpeau, Alfred Armand Louis Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French anatomist and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Brèches
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1867
Place of death Paris