Ulysse Trélat

Ulysse Trélat was a French surgeon, born in Paris on 13 August 1828 and dead on 28 March 1890, remembered for describing the Leser-Trélat sign. He was the son of an army physician of the same name and was taught by his father and by Philippe-Frédéric Blandin, Auguste Nélaton and Philibert Joseph Roux. He took his medical doctorate in 1854, became prosector in 1855 and agrégé in 1857 with a thesis on phossy jaw. He was made a surgeon in 1860, chief of surgery at the Paris Maternité in 1864 and later professor of clinical surgery at the Hépital Necker. With the military physician Anacharsis Baizeau he gave his name to the Baizeau and Trélat method, a surgical procedure for repairing a cleft soft palate, and with the surgeon Pierre Delbet he published Clinique chirurgicale in 1891, after his death.