Alphonse Leroy (23 August 1742 - 15 January 1816) was a French medical doctor.
Alphonse Leroy (23 August 1742 - 15 January 1816) was a French medical doctor.
Born Alphonse-Louis-Vincent Leroy in Rouen, he initially studied law and wished to become a lawyer, but the fame of the Rouen-born surgeon Claude-Nicolas Lecat gave him the idea of switching to medicine. He began studying medicine with Lecat before completing his studies in Paris. He was received as a Doctor-Regent in 1768 and soon afterwards as a professor in Paris' medical faculty.
He specialised in children's and women's diseases and voiced several innovations in the teaching of midwifery. He published several works - these and his skill in public speaking gained him an appointment as professor of midwifery in the Paris school of health. He was known for his impatience, stubbornness and exaggeration in debate. According to him animal substances and especially meat were always the best food for very young children. He was also a stubborn opponent of vaccination.
He was the first to hold a chair in midwifery at the medical faculty in Paris beside Jean-Louis Baudelocque. He was best known for symphysiotomy and exploited his celebrity as the second man to perform it after its inventor Jean-René Sigault. He was murdered in Paris by a servant whom he had dismissed a few days earlier.
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