Jean-Jacques Belloc

French surgeon and creator of forensic medicine in France

Jean Jacques Belloc

Born	1730
Died	1807
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Physician and surgeon

Jean-Jacques Belloc (1730 in Saint-Maurin in Quercy – October 23, 1807, in Agen) was a French surgeon and creator of forensic medicine in France.^[1]

Biography

He was a son of a surgeon, he was a pupil of the college of Montpellier then studied medicine and surgery at the University of Montpellier, then at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. He received his master in surgery in Paris in 1754 and in spite of his titles of lieutenant of the first surgeon of the King and professor of legal medicine, he had settled in Agen in 1768 and had founded there, in the old tower of Saint-Côme, in next to the large cemetery of Sainte-Foy, a school of surgery which flourished until the revolution.

There he autopsied corpses that he dug up with the help of his students. He invented several surgical instruments, including the probe that bears his name (Belloc probe or cannula).^[2] Rightly considered as the creator in France of forensic medicine, Belloc is the author of numerous memoirs, notably on animal magnetism and smallpox, which he had made his specialty.^[3]^[4]

Publications

Physical, philosophical and medical topography of the department of Lot-et-Garonne , Agen, 1806
Course in judicial, theoretical and practical forensic medicine Paris: impr. of the Society of Medicine, (year IX , 1811, 1819) FRBNF30080952

References

^ Baas, Johann Hermann; Handerson, Henry Ebenezer (1889). Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession. J.H. Vail.
^ Belloc, Jean-Jacques (1811). "Cours de Médecine légale, théorique et pratique". Retrieved 2022-06-28.
^ Library (U.S.), Army Medical (1880). Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army: Authors and Subjects. U.S. Government Printing Office.
^ Burton, June K.; Burton, June K. (2007). Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law 1799-1815. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 978-0-89672-559-1.