Xavier Delore  | |
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| Born | 7 August 1828 | 
| Died | 20 February 1916 (aged 87) | 
| Nationality | French | 
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | General surgery, Obstetrics, Gynecology | 

Delore's method of mechanical traction with pullies and cords, 1929.
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]
 
References
- ↑ BIUSante Biographies
 - ↑ The American illustrated medical dictionary by William Alexander Newman Dorland, Edgar Calvin Le Roy Mille
 - ↑ Who Named It Antonin Poncet - bibliography
 - ↑ De la ventilation des hôpitaux
 - ↑ OCLC Classify publications
 
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