Philibert-Joseph Roux
Philibert -Joseph Roux ( born April 26, 1780 in Auxerre, † March 23, 1854 in Paris) was a French physician and surgeon.
Life
His father, Jacques Roux, a practicing chief surgeon at the Hôtel -Dieu and at the Military Academy of Auxerre, sent him to the run by the Benedictine Military Academy, to study civil engineering. Due to the carefree nature of his son he gave this plan soon and took Philibert in the surgical ward with. However, the son was there too little interest and only dreamed of leaving Auxerre. 1796 during the First Coalition War, his father advised him to join the army. P. J. Roux got there a position as a medical officer third class for the Armée de Sambre -et -Meuse, which marched to Andernach in the Rhineland. After a short stay in this garrison, he was sent to the hospital Aachen, where he was assigned to the emergency services. After the Treaty of Campo Formio on 17 October 1797, the demobilization and Philibert was returned to his family.
But his father still urged to study medicine in Paris. 1850 Hôpital d'instruction of Armées du Val -de- Grâce was founded, but Roux failed there in the entrance examination. He attended then the courses at the École de médecine de Paris and the public anatomy lectures by Marie François Xavier Bichat, whose student, admirer and friend he was. After an appropriate body had become free, he worked with enthusiasm as a dissector for Bichat.
After the death of Xavier Bichat on July 22, 1802, he took over his lectures on anatomy, physiology and operative surgery. So he opened a theater of anatomy and operative surgery taught in the monastery of Saint -Jean de Beauvais, Saint- Jean de Beauvais cloître, and later in the Rue de la Huchette.
In 1802 he applied for the position of deputy chief surgeon, de deuxième classe chirurgien at the Hôtel- Dieu. The position, however, was awarded to his competitor Guillaume Dupuytren.
In 1803 he defended his thesis entitled Coup d'oeil sur les physiologique Secretions. In 1807 he became the second-class surgeons at Beaujon Hospital, Hôpital Beaujon in Clichy ( Hauts -de -Seine ), three years later, 1810, he married the daughter of Alexis Boyer. Adelaide Boyer, was the eldest daughter of the Parisian surgeon Alexis Boyer and previously engaged to Guillaume Dupuytren.
As Raphael Bienvenu Sabatier died in 1811 his chair was vacant. Ph.J. Roux presented along with the three other candidates, AE Tartra, Guillaume Dupuytren and Jean -Nicolas Marjolin (1780-1850), for this post. The selection committee was composed of Philippe -Jean Pelletan (1747-1829), Antoine Dubois (1755-1837), Pierre- François Percy (1754-1825) Anthelme Richerand us together. On February 10, 1812 Guillaume Dupuytren was unanimously appointed professor of operative surgery. Ph.J. Roux was his professional reputation by publishing a notice in the treatment of bone diseases - accurate joint disease - by resection and amputation. In 1813, his textbook of surgery appeared. In August of 1814, he traveled for a month for training to London, where he was briefed on the progress of the local surgery. In 1820 he was appointed professor of surgery and finally in 1835 - after the death of Guillaume Dupuytren - he became his successor at the Hôtel- Dieu in Paris.
In September of 1819 he operated with success an open cleft palate in an English student. Anthelme Richerand attacked him in this polemic sharply. As a result of this successful intervention ( Staphylorrhapie ) was born 1825, the publication Mémoire sur la staphyloraphie, ou, Suture du voile du palais. The closure of a soft cleft palate (see soft palate ) was first performed in 1816 by the Berlin surgeon Carl Ferdinand von Graefe ( 1787-1840 ). Operation Technically freshened Graefe rotating columns edges by etching on them to sew in a row. This approach was successful in only one case. Ph.J. Roux changed the art in that it surgically anfrischte the gap edges and then seamlessly adapted. He succeeded at around 90 patients to unite the split palate.
In addition to its extremely rich surgical action, he was also involved in the field of ophthalmology and developed the surgical ophthalmology further. In a communication to the Paris Academy of Sciences ( Académie des sciences ) in 1817, he reported on the surgical treatment of gray Stars (cataract ). He has more than 700 patients underwent surgery with a success rate of seventy.
Works (selection)
- Roux, Ph.J.: Coup d'oeil sur les physiologique Secretions. Feugueray Paris, ( 1803)
- Roux, Ph.J.: Melanges de chirurgie et de physiology. Mequignon Paris, ( 1809)
- Roux, Ph.J.: Mémoire sur la staphyloraphie, ou, Suture du voile du palais. Chaudé Paris, ( 1825)
- Roux, Ph.J.: Quarante années de pratique chirurgicale. Victor Masson, Paris (1854, PDF)