Jean-Jacques Belloc was a French surgeon, born in 1730 at Saint-Maurin in Quercy and dead at Agen on 23 October 1807, and is regarded as the creator of forensic medicine in France. The son of a surgeon, he studied medicine and surgery at Montpellier and then at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, taking his master in surgery there in 1754. Despite titles that included lieutenant of the first surgeon of the King and professor of legal medicine, he settled in Agen in 1768 and founded a school of surgery in the old tower of Saint-Côme, which flourished until the Revolution. His students dug up corpses for him to autopsy. He invented several surgical instruments, among them the probe or cannula that bears his name, and wrote many memoirs, notably on animal magnetism and on smallpox. His Course in judicial forensic medicine and a topography of the department of Lot-et-Garonne were among his publications.
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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.
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was a French surgeon and creator of forensic medicine in France.
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He invented several surgical instruments, including the probe that bears his name (Belloc probe or cannula).
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