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).

[1] His name is associated with "Delore's method", defined as a forcible manual procedure for treatment of genu valgum.

[2] With surgeon Antonin Poncet, he was co-author of "Traité de la cystostomie sus-pubienne chez les prostatiques.

Création d'un urèthre hypogastrique" (1899).

Delore's method of mechanical traction with pullies and cords during childbirth. 1929.