Alexis Boyer

Baron de Alexis Boyer (* March 1, 1757 in Uzerche in Correze in Limousin, † November 25, 1833 ) was a French physician and surgeon.

Life and work

Boyer was the son of a tailor, he began as a helper at a barber, barber chirurgien. With 17 Boyer went as a barber - fellow, garçon barber, to Paris. There he attended as an autodidact the premises of the Ecole Pratique anatomy de la Faculté de médecine, where Boyer refine his skills in dissect and study and developed. He succeeded the attention of the renowned surgeon Antoine Louis (1723-1792) and Pierre -Joseph Desault (1744-1795) pulling it towards you.

Boyer was married to Gabrielle Tripot, they had a son and two daughters, her eldest daughter Adelaide Boyer - previously engaged to Guillaume Dupuytren - was finally the wife of Philibert -Joseph Roux ( 1780-1854 ).

Boyer devoted himself since 1779 by Pierre -Joseph Desault in Paris surgery, and was in 1787 a surgeon at the Hôpital de la Charité, then professor of surgery and later the clinic at the newly established École de santé and 1804 first surgeon of the Emperor, Napoleon I., premier chirurgien de l'Empereur, which also baronisierte him.

Under the Bourbons, he received a professorship at the University of Paris.

Works (selection)

• Traité complet d' anatomie (Paris 1797-1799, 4 vols, 4th ed 1820)
• Traité des maladies chirurgicales (ibid. 1814-1825, 9 vols, 5th Edition 1843-1853, 7 vols; German by Textor, 3rd edition, Würzburg from 1834 to 1841, 11 vols )