Philibert Joseph Roux
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Philibert Joseph Roux (April 26, 1780 – March 24, 1854) was a French surgeon born in Auxerre.
Trained as a military surgeon, he later moved to Paris, where he was a student and friend of Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771–1802). In 1806 he became a surgeon at the Hôpital Beaujon, and in 1810 was assigned to the Hôpital de la Charité. In 1835 he succeeded Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835) as chief surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.
Remembered for his pioneer work in plastic surgery, in 1819 he performed one of the earliest staphylorrhaphies[1] (surgical repair of a cleft palate). He is also credited with being the first surgeon to suture a ruptured female perineum (1832).
[edit] References
- ^ A manual of the injuries and surgical diseases of the face, mouth, and jaws by John Sayre Marshall
[edit] External links
- The Medical times and gazette Biographical Sketch of M. Roux
- An introduction to the history of medicine by Fielding Hudson Garrison
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