Philippe-Jean Pelletan

Philippe -Jean Pelletan ( born May 4, 1747 in Paris, † September 26, 1829 in Bourg- la -Reine ) was a French surgeon.

Pelletan was born the son of a surgeon in Paris. He was a member of the Académie nationale de Médecine and the Académie des sciences. At the University of Paris, he worked at the medical faculty as a professor. After the outbreak of the Revolution he was in 1789 appointed surgeon of the National Guard. On 13 July 1793, he was shortly after the deadly attack on Jean -Paul Marat at the scene and signed Marat's death certificate. In 1795 he joined the succession of Pierre -Joseph Desault as chief surgeon at the Hôtel -Dieu. After the death of ten -year-old Crown Prince Louis Charles de Bourbon on June 8, 1795 Pelletan performed the autopsy, and then removes the prince's heart, which he preserved in alcohol. Today, it is the only mortal remnant of Louis XVII. preserved in the Basilica of Saint- Denis. 1804 Pelletan was on the advice of the imperial court physician Jean -Nicolas Corvisart for surgical consultant Napoleon Bonaparte. As chief surgeon at the Hôtel- Dieu Pelletan was responsible for a misdiagnosis that led individuals linked to the death of a Russian officer Tsar Alexander I.. He was then denounced by his colleague Guillaume Dupuytren the Tsar, which demanded a trial of Pelletan, and dismissed as a result of his office on September 6, 1815. His successor as chief surgeon was Dupuytren.

• Pathologist
• Surgeon
• Physician (18th century)
• Physician (19th century)
• University teachers (Paris)
• Member of the Académie des sciences
• Born in 1747
• Died in 1829
• Man