François Louis Isidore Valleix

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François Louis Isidore Valleix (* 1807 in Toulouse ; † 1855 ) was a French pediatrician .

Valleix worked at the Paris Sainte-Marguerite Hospital and was a professor at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière . He dealt with neonatal diseases and neuralgia . The nerve pressure points of the sciatic nerve are named after him as Valleix points . A street in Toulouse ( Rue Isidore-Valleix ) is named after him.

Works

  • Clinique des maladies des enfants nouveau-nés , 1838
  • Traité des névralgies , 1841
  • Guide du médecin praticien, ou Résumé de pathologie internal et de thérapeutique , 1842-1848, 10 volumes, et 1850-1851, 5 volumes in-8 °
personal data
SURNAME Valleix, François Louis Isidore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH 1855