François Louis Isidore Valleix

François Louis Isidore Valleix (14 January 1807, Toulouse – 12 July 1855, Paris) was a French pediatrician.

He studied medicine in Paris, where in 1831 he began work as a hospital intern. In 1835 he received his medical doctorate with a thesis on slow asphyxia of the newborn. In 1836 he became médecin du Bureau central, and from 1841 onward, served as médecin des hôpitaux in Paris.^[1] He died in 1855 after contracting diphtheria from a sick child.^[2]

In 1834 he became a member of the Société anatomique de Paris.^[1] His name is associated with "Valleix's points", described as: various points in the course of a nerve, about which, applied pressure causes pain in cases of neuralgia.^[3]

Principal works

• De l'asphyxie lente chez les enfans nouveau-nés, 1835 – Slow asphyxia of the newborn.
• Clinique des maladies des enfants nouveau-nés, 1838 – Clinical illnesses of the newborn.
• Traité des névralgies, ou, Affections douloureuses des nerfs, 1841 – Treatise on neuralgia; painful disorders of the nerves.
• Guide du medecin praticien : ou résumé general de pathologie interne et de therapeutique appliquées (10 volumes), 1842-1847 – Guide for the medical practitioner; general summary of internal pathology and applied therapeutics.^[4]

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