BOYER, ALEXIS (1757-1833), French surgeon, was born March 1, 1757, at Uzerches (Correze) . The son of a tailor, he obtained his first medical knowledge in the shop of a barber surgeon, and became professor of surgery at the Ecole de Sante. In 1805 Napoleon nominated him imperial family surgeon, and, after the campaigns of 1806-0 7, conferred on him the Legion of Honour, with the title of baron of the empire and a salary of 25,000 francs. He was consulting surgeon to Louis XVIII., Charles X., and Louis Philippe. In 1825 he succeeded J. F. L. Deschamps as surgeon-in-chief to the Hopital de la Charite. He died in Paris on Nov. 23, 1833. Perhaps no French surgeon of his time thought or wrote with greater clearness and good sense than Boyer. His two great works are: Traite complet de l'anatomie (in 4 vols., 1797-99; 4th ed. 1815), and Traite des maladies chirurgi cales et des operations qui leer conviennent (in I I vols., 1826 ; a new ed. 7 vols. 1844-53, with additions by his son, Philippe Boyer).