Ricord, PHILIPPE, a French physician, was born on 10th December 1800, at Baltimore, U.S. He came to Paris in 1820, and after 1828 delivered there two annual courses of lectures at the Pitié on surgical operations, and was appointed surgeon-in-chief to the hospital for venereal diseases. This post he held till his retirement in October 1860. He died on 22d October 1889. Ricord won a world-wide reputation in the specialty which he had chosen, a reputation which he owed to his combination of accurate physiological and pathological knowledge, manual dexterity as a surgeon, and felicitous inventiveness and resource as a physician.
The more important of his numerous works are On the Employment of the Speculum (1833); Treatise on Venereal Maladies (1838); On Blennorrhagic Ophthalmia (1842); Iconographical Clinic of the Venereal Hospital (1841-66); Letters on Syphilis (3d ed. 1863); and Lectures on Cancer (2d ed. 1860).