Xavier Delore (7 August 1828,

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– 20 February 1916,

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) was a French

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and obstetrician. In

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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). His name is associated with "Delore's method", defined as a forcible manual procedure for treatment of genu valgum.

Selected works

With surgeon

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, he was co-author of "''Traité de la cystostomie sus-pubienne chez les prostatiques. Création d'un urèthre hypogastrique''" (1899). 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. * ''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

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Delore, Xavier 1828 births 1916 deaths People from Rhône (department) French surgeons French obstetricians Academic staff of the University of Lyon