Philippe-Jean Pelletan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French surgeon
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Place of Birth: Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France
About Philippe-Jean Pelletan
- Philippe-Jean Pelletan (4 May 1747 – 26 September 1829) was a French surgeon born in Paris. Son of a surgeon, Pelletan was a member of the Académie Royale de Chirurgie and of the Académie des Sciences.
- He was a professor to the Faculté de Médecine de Paris, and in 1789 elected surgeon of the Garde Nationale.
- On 13 July 1793, moments after the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday, Pelletan was present at the crime scene.
- The minutes on the death certificate bear his signature.In 1795 he succeeded Pierre-Joseph Desault (1738–1795) as chief surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu.
- Following the death of 10-year-old Louis XVII on 8 June 1795, he was responsible for performing the autopsy.
- In 1804 Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755–1821) had Pelletan appointed consultant-surgeon to the Emperor. While chief surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu, Pelletan was involved in a case of misdiagnosis that led to the death of a patient.
- An opportunistic Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835) informed the personal physician of Tsar Alexander of the situation, which triggered an investigation into the matter.
- Because of the mistake, on 6 September 1815, Dupuytren was named as Pelletan's replacement as chief-surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu.
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