Xavier Delore
Xavier Delore (7 August 1828, Fleurie – 20 February 1916, Romanèche-Thorins) was a French surgeon and obstetrician. In Lyon he served as surgeon-major at Charité Hospital (1859–1872) and associate professor of clinical obstetrics at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy (1877–1886). His name is associated with "Delore's method", defined as a forcible manual procedure for treatment of genu valgum. Selected works. With surgeon Antonin Poncet, he was co-author of ""Traité de la cystostomie sus-pubienne chez les prostatiques. Création d'un urèthre hypogastrique"" (1899). Other works by Delore include: