Jacques Mathieu Delpech

{{short description|French surgeon}}

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|birth_date = 1777

|birth_place = Toulouse

|death_date = 28 October 1832

|death_place = Montpellier

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|nationality = French

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|field = surgeon

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|alma_mater = University of Paris

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|known_for = orthopedics

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}}Jacques Mathieu Delpech (1777 – 28 October 1832) was a French surgeon born in Toulouse.

He earned his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1801 and spent the next several years as a teacher of anatomy in Toulouse. In 1812 he became a surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Eloi in Montpellier, where he remained until his death in 1832.

Delpech is best known for his work in orthopedics, and he established a clinic for orthopaedic diseases at Saint-Eloi. There he advocated a surgical process known as "tenotomy" to correct contracture abnormalities of the extremities. He was also a pioneer of skin grafting and rhinoplasty, and is credited for documenting the first rhinoplastic operation in France.[http://www.historyofscience.com/pdf/catalogue31.pdf Classics of Science & Medicine, Catalogue 31]

Delpech died when he was shot by a patient on 28 October 1832.{{cite journal

|last=Glicenstein

|first=J

|date=Apr 2009

|title=Pioneers and martyrs: Delpech, Guinard, Pozzi

|journal=Annales de chirurgie plastique et esthétique

|volume=54

|issue=2

|pages=171–5

|location = France| pmid = 19195756

|doi = 10.1016/j.anplas.2008.10.014

}}