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]

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