Xavier Delore Explained
Xavier Delore (7 August 1828, Fleurie – 20 February 1916, Romanèche-Thorins) was a French surgeon and obstetrician.
In Lyon he served as surgeon-major at Charité Hospital (1859–1872) and associate professor of clinical obstetrics at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy (1877–1886).[1] His name is associated with "Delore's method", defined as a forcible manual procedure for treatment of genu valgum.[2]
Selected works
With surgeon Antonin Poncet, he was co-author of "Traité de la cystostomie sus-pubienne chez les prostatiques. Création d'un urèthre hypogastrique" (1899).[3] Other works by Delore include:
- Influence de la physiologie moderne sur la médecine pratique, 1864 – Influence of modern physiology towards the practice of medicine.
- Du traitement des ankyloses; examen critique des diverses méthodes, 1864 – On treatment for ankylosis, a critique of diverse methods.
- De l'Hygiène des maternités, discours d'installation prononcé, 1866 - On maternal hygiene.
- De la ventilation des hôpitaux, 1868 - Airing hospitals.[4]
- De la Fonction du nouvel urètre (urètre hypogastrique) chez les prostatiques anciennement cystostomisés, 1897 – Function of the hypogastric ureter, etc.
- La tuberculose génitale chez l'homme et chez la femme, 1920 – Genital tuberculosis of men and women.[5]
Notes and References
- http://www2.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/bio/?cle=5333 BIUSante
- https://books.google.com/books?id=0Di6AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22+Xavier+Delore%22+1828&pg=PA299 The American illustrated medical dictionary
- http://www.whonamedit.com/person_bibliography/2811/ Who Named It
- http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k64801867.r=delore.langFR De la ventilation des hôpitaux
- http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22Delore%2C+Xavier.%22 OCLC Classify
