13 Facts About Philippe Ricord

Philippe Ricord was born on 10 December 1800 in Baltimore.

Philippe Ricord's father had escaped the French Revolution in 1790 from Marseille.

Philippe Ricord met French naturalist Charles Alexandre Lesueur, who took him back to Paris in 1820.

Philippe Ricord worked for Lesueur as curator of his specimens, and at hospitals such as Val-de-Grace and Hotel-Dieu de Paris.

Philippe Ricord studied under Guillaume Dupuytren, but fell out with him when Ricord published an article pointing out a procedure Dupuytren claimed to have invented was already in use in America.

Philippe Ricord transferred to Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital to study under Jacques Lisfranc de St Martin.

Doctor Ricord was surgeon in chief to the hospital for venereal diseases and to the Hopital Cochin.

Philippe Ricord won a worldwide reputation in his special field.

In 1862 Philippe Ricord was appointed physician in ordinary to Prince Napoleon.

Philippe Ricord was the brother of Jean Baptiste Ricord who was a physician and naturalist in America.

Jean Baptiste's son took the name John Philippe Ricord, became a lawyer who practiced law in several notable cases while he traveled through the Republic of Texas, Oregon Territory, the Kingdom of Hawaii, and the California Gold Rush.

John Philippe Ricord returned to live with Phillipe where he died in 1861.

Philippe Ricord developed an innovative formula for the treatment of urethritis, largely used at least up to the late 1910s.