Background
Paul Segond was born in Paris, the son of anatomist Louis-Auguste Segond (1819–1908).
Paul Segond was born in Paris, the son of anatomist Louis-Auguste Segond (1819–1908).
He studied medicine in Paris, becoming an intern in 1875, having already published a letter on "weight of newborns" in the Annales de gynécologie.
He was also an expert on the knee and described the eponymous Segond fracture. He became prosector at the Faculté de médecine de Paris of the University of Paris in 1878. He qualified docteur en médecine in 1880, with his thesis on Abcès chauds de la prostate et le phlegmon périprostatique (hot abscesses of the prostate and periprostatic phlegmon) being honoured by the Société de Chirurgie and French Academy of Sciences.
He became an associate professor of surgery in 1883, and was made chef de clinique at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital alongside Ulysse Trélat later in the same year.
In 1905 he succeeded Paul Jules Tillaux in the chair of surgery at the Faculté de médecine de Paris, a position which he held until his death.
In 1909 he was elected as a member of the French Académie Nationale de Society Française Médecine Légale.