Alfred Armand Louis Marie Velpeau, a French surgeon, born at Bréche, department of Indreet-Loire, May 18, 1795, died in Paris, Aug. 24, 1867. He was brought up to assist his father, who was a farrier, learned almost without assistance reading, writing, and some of the rudiments of medicine, acquired reputation among the peasantry by several cures, and was enabled by a neighbor to study in the hospital of Tours, where he graduated in 1823. In 1830 he became surgeon to the Pitie hospital at Paris, in 1832 a member of the academy of medicine, in 1835 professor of clinical surgery, and in 1842 successor of Larrey in the institute. His clinical lectures at the Charitè hospital were among the most remarkable of his claims to distinction. His works include Traite de l'anatomie chirurgicale (2 vols., 1825); Anatomie des regions (1825-6; revised and republished under the title Anatomie chirurgicale generate et topographique, 2 vols. 8vo, 1838; 2d ed., by Velpeau and Beraud, 1862); Memoire 8ur les positions vicieuses du foetus (1830); Recherches sur la cessation spontanee des hemorrhagies traumatiques primitives et la torsion des artêres (1830); Nouveaux elements de medecine operatoire (1832), a work of the highest authority; Embryologie ou ovologie humaine (1833); Des convulsions, pendant la grossesse, durant le travail, ou apres Vaccouchement (1834); Lemons orales de clinique chirurgicale, collected by Jeanselme and Pavilion (3 vols., 1840-'41); and Traité des maladies du sein et de la region mammaire (1853). His last work was the article Adénite in the Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales (1865).