Philibert Joseph Roux

Who was Philibert Joseph Roux?

Philibert Joseph Roux was a French surgeon born in Auxerre.

Trained as a military surgeon, he later moved to Paris, where he was a student and friend of Marie François Xavier Bichat. In 1806 he became a surgeon at the Hôpital Beaujon, and in 1810 was assigned to the Hôpital de la Charité. In 1835 he succeeded Guillaume Dupuytren as chief surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.

Remembered for his pioneer work in plastic surgery, in 1819 he performed one of the earliest staphylorrhaphies. He is also credited with being the first surgeon to suture a ruptured female perineum.

A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.